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Show THIEF OF "23" FAME KNEW BETTER DAYS Frorn an insurance agent with fine . offices in Chicago to a robber who stole 23 cents from a woman, was the tale of woe told bv Attorney James W. Me-Kinney Me-Kinney in Judge Armstrong's court this morning in pleading for leniency for P. 8. Cootty, charged with grand ( larceny. Cootty ia the prisoner whose troubles ran in the 'Iskiddo" numbered circles. He is alleged to have stolen , the money on October 23, and the sum was 23 cents, and his trial was set for November 23. When arraigned Cootty pleaded guilty to theharge, and after listening to the attorney, Judge Armstrong scn- - teneed the man to two years in the - penitentiary. - The attorney declared that Cootty has been the support of his widowed mother in Chicago, and that the deed was done while the man was recovering from a protracted, spree., Cootty has been in Salt Lake for two yeara," nd it ia asserted that this is the first of-f of-f ense that has ever brought him before the court. V |