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Show PATE-SB MS atelMSKfi :: witness, msm son; DRY. IN JIEIt'S COURT "I would like t. go to work." was the j plea made by Ed. Appell before Judge Dlehl yesterday afternoon. ' "If I were the Chief of Police I would see that you went to work and that while you ' were at it, you worked good and hard,". remarked the court. Young Appell was arrested on a charge of assault and battery. The complaining witness in the case was his father, who was present In the court. Arjbe.ll. Jr., who gave his age as 9, and who has been before the Juvenile court pn one or two occasions, entered a plea of guilty to the complaint sworn to by his father. Prosecutor Daly explained to the court that the boy was Incorrigible Incorrigi-ble and that his parents bad no control , over him. According to the statement of Mr. Daly the young man went ' home Saturday evening and "started a rough house." After beating his father, who is 64 years of age and far from a strong looking man, he took a crack or two at his young sister with a chair. "What ' have you got to say to .the charges made against you by the- City Attorney" asked the court. "Oh. I guess that I am guilty, but I would like to go to work," responded the young man. "Tour brazenness in entering such a plea without any other explanation is astonishing to this court. You are a young man, apparently in good health and strength. The court cannot understand under-stand why you should commit the offense to which you .plead guilty. The sentence sen-tence of the court is that you pay a fine of $75, in default of which you will be committed to the city Jail for a period of seventy-five days." . - When seen after court had adjourned the .father of the boy said that he had done ' everything that he could tor his son. but that he had gotten entirely beyond be-yond his control. , Jacob Smith entered a plea of guilty to the charge of being drunk. Jacob was also charged with resisting an officer and biting one of the latter's. fingers. Jacob said that be might be guilty of that charge. "I was intoxicated and did not know what I did." he said. The case was-continued until this afternoon for further investigation. Mike Conner was charged with having hav-ing trespassed on a car belonging to the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway company. According to the testimony of Special Patrolman Wood, Mike "accumulated a Jag" at Lagoon Sunday evening and was finally ejected from the grounds. Mike then got on the train, but when the conductor asked him for his fare he refused re-fused to pay It and he was arrested when the train reached this city. Mike tried to inform the court just how he thought the trouble happened. He said the he did not ' refuse to pay his fare, but later admitted that he did not have money enough to, do so. Mike said that he wanted to get out of town. The court had another view of the matter and Mike Conners will be a boarder at the city jail for five days. F. Maddick admitted that he had been drunk. As it happened on Sunday Mr. Maddick contributed the usual $5. When the name of S. S. Singer was called by Clerk Wight there was no response. re-sponse. The "V" which Mr. Singer had left with the desk sergeant went into the city cash box. L. Vezlon was charged with having discharged dis-charged firearms within the city limits. He was arrested Sunday afternoon. It was alleged by the prosecution that Mr. Vezlon bad gone near the house of one of his tenants and started to fire a rifle and a revolver. Vezlon claimed that he did not mean to scare any one, but that he Just went into a big field and fired a few shots, just to clean the rust out of his gun. The court found the defendant guilty as charged and imposed a fine of $3, with the warning that he had better go out into the country the next time that he wanted to clean the rust out of his firearms. D. E. Sullivan entered a plea of guilty to the charge of lelng drunk oil August 26. As that date happened to be the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, Sun-day, Mr. Sullivan contributed the usual V." Squire Williams, colored, was charged with having been drunk. "Mlstah" Williams Wil-liams admitted it. Sunday. Five dollars. Mrs. Mary Elliott, who was arrested last Thursday ' after -she- had- -threatened i to carve every one in sight with a butcher knife, and who was .later discharged dis-charged with the understanding that she would be cared for, appealed in court again to answer to a charge of disturbing disturb-ing the peace. The woman was arrested yesterday morning by Patrolman Kast In East First South street. Her husband appeared in court and said that he would like to take his wife out of the city to the place where he is employed. The request was granted and the woman discharged. dis-charged. Mrs. Elliott is addicted to the use of cocaine, a habit which she contracted con-tracted during a long' Illness. , When the case of Harry Sullivan and George Thompson, the two men who were arrested last Friday on a charge of having fleeced a stranger out of ,35 In rash and an ,85 diamond stud and who later entered a plea of guilty to a charge of vagrancy, was called. Attorney Newton New-ton made a plea for a short sentence. Mr. Newton argued that they had not committed com-mitted any act that was a crime under the law and that he did not think any heavy penalty should be Imposed. Mr. Daly objected, especially as to Sullivan, who, he said, had been before the court before and had beert given light sentences. sen-tences. While it was true that both men had left the city, yet he felt that they should be given such sentences as would keep them away for some time. The court sentenced Thompson to pay a fine of ,30 or spend a like number of days in the city Jail. Sullivan was sentenced to ,90 or ninety days. |