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Show HE TOLD HIS STORY IN LANGUAGiE OF A SEAMAN Joha Wilson, marine engineer, will not be tried In the Dlatrlct court on a charge of attempted burglary. WIL-on was arrested by Patrolman Simpson at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning, after having hav-ing broken a window in the door of the Lion saloon, at State street and Commercial Com-mercial alley. Sam Curtin, a bartender employed in the saloon, said when testifying that there was a brilliant light left burning in the saloon and that the interior of the place was plainly visible from the sidewalk. Patrolman Simpson said that he was hJf a block , from the saloon ond heard the sounds of falling glass. He ran toward the saloon and then heard a second crash. He saw. the defendant running from the. place and following, railed him. to halt, or he would shoot. He overhauled Wilson and arrested him. The key of the door was in the lock on the Inside, and after turning th defendant over to the department, he went back to the saloon and found tlat the door could have been opened. Wilson was then sworn. He said that he. had been drinking freely all of :ha day and night up to the time of his arrest. ar-rest. He was going to the saloon to get a drink, when his foot slipped and he fell, striking the glass and breaking it. He said that his first impulse was to go to the bartender and "square" himself, and then he saw the policeman coming, and he became frightened and ran. , , "How drunk were you?" asked Prof-cutor Prof-cutor Hansen. "I was drunk, but ! was not like a ship in a storm. I was staggering, but I was not staggering like a catboat without a rudder," was his answer. "Why did you ranV "I got scared at the big policeman running me down like a man-o'-war with all steam on, running down a yawl.- If I had been in good condition. I would have been running yet, if I hid wanted to." Judge Diehl was convinced by the straightforward manner in which Wilson Wil-son told his story, and after considering the case for a few moments discharged the defendant. |