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Show Sugar Sack Is Not Made to Bathe In Nor Is a Pair of Scissored Overalls; Over-alls; Wearing Either Is an Offense. Special to The Tribune. OGDEX, Aug. 12. .Judge W. H. Reerler temporarily appointed himself a bathing suit censor today when he rendered ren-dered a decision to the effect that a sugar sack or abbreviated overalls cannot he legal ly looked upon as the proper cosi ume for bathing. The decision result re-sult ed in $10 fines for Clinton Drisroll and Thomas Wallace, two men arrested tor swimming In the Ogden river near Twentieth street, but the evidence of several sev-eral witnesses Indicated that neither defendant de-fendant was hampered in his aquatic anties bv even a sugar sack. When "Driscoll was given an opportunity to testify in his own defense, he swore that ho was wearing a sugar sack In which two holes had been cut for his legs. The sack was held in position, he asserted, by improvised suspenders. Wallace Wal-lace testified that he wore a pair of over-; over-; alls which were entirely Intact but for the legs, which had been cut off above the knees to afford free use of hia lower limbs. Judge Reeder declared that their statements might be true, but that even this regalia was insufficient. |