Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-17 | Page 2 | Friendship for Police Fails to Cut Sentence

Friendship for Police Pails to toS S Out Cut Sentence Claiming friendship with ith Chief of Police J. J E. E Burbidge Bur Bur- bidge City Prosecutor Lon Watson and Court Clerk ClarenCe Clarence Clar- Clar enCe Lutz and averring that lie he only had a pint on him and less than a quart in him Joe negro was given the alternative of 50 or twenty twenty- five days when he appeared before City Judge John I. I-I. Morgan Morgan Mor- Mor gan Thursday and pleaded guilty to a charge of being bing drunk Grays Gray's claim of friendship friend friend- ship with the officials named all of whom were in court was apparently designed to pave the way for leniency but when the officers in unison hastened to disclaim friendship was mutual mu- mu t e mans man's plea proved of no avail