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Show AS IT HAPPENS DAILY BEFORE JUDGE DIEHL Ray Margetts was the first prisoner to face Judge Dlehl in the Police court yesterday yes-terday afternoon. Ray was charged with having been drunk. As it was the first time that Ray had faced the court, he was allowed to go. Mary Dockery was charged with vagrancy. va-grancy. Mary, who was decidedly good looking, informed the court that she was guilty, but tha she wished to leave town. She was given the opportunity. When the name of Jennie Steele was called by Clerk Wight there was no response. re-sponse. Jennie had left $5 with the desk sergeant, which went into the city cash box. Percy Strang was chsrged with being a vag and begging. . Percy tried hard to convince the court that he had never no, never begged in all his life, much less on the occasion Charged In 'the complaint. com-plaint. Percy, however, failed to convince con-vince the court of the correctness of his statement, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $30 or be confined In the city Jail thirty days. Percy did not have the cash and so will spend the time on the city rock pile. Five dollars went into the city cash box because Thomas Fltzpatrlck failed to answer to his name. Thomas was charged with having been drunk. O. W. Kellogg alsO failed to respond to the rollcall, and $5 more was forfeited to the city. Solomon Rander, a German, was charged with .vagrancy. Rander informed the court that be was not guilty. The case. was continued until today..: t . The case of Paul Fie gal, charged with having violated the license ordinance, was continued until next Tuesday. The last esse on the call was that of Thomas Patton, who was charged with indecent conduct., Patton Is an En-glshman En-glshman and apparency well educated. It was the opinion of those who heard the testimony of the witneses for the city and of the defendant himself, that he is not well balanced mentally. At the conclusion con-clusion of ' the testimony Patton was found guilty and will he sentenced today. |