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Show "23" raicr; . NUiiDEnrp?, inn Steals 23 Cents, Is Ar-rained Ar-rained in Court on 23rd : and Consigned to Cell 23 inJaiL .Tha "skidoo", number has become an ill omened numeral, and no longer does "23" mean anything but trouble for P. 8. Cootly, who was before Judge Armstrong this morning on the charge of grand lareeny.' Cootty was called for arraignment, but the ease was con-tinned con-tinned to November 3. Cootty ' aversion to "23 " is that he is charged with forcibly' stealing 23 cents from Mrs. G. Silver, 653 South Fifth East street, on October 23l and .... for the alleged crime will be arraigned .on November 23. . ' It is alleged that Cootty unlawfully and feloniously did take, carry awav . and steal 23 cents in money of the c 'United States of America. '.What was the date for the arraign-5 mentt" naked 'Clerk Howard King of .Judge Armstrong's court, of District , Attorney Loofbourow. "23, ? said the attorney. "'" " " . "Sounds like 23 -. for me," commented com-mented the prisoner, as Deputy Sheriff Ike Emery decorated him with irons. "We will give you 23 at the jail, tinea that is your number." said the deputy to his prisoner, as he took him through th door. But perhaps this "23" may roll away like the. tale in which the term originated. Jt mav end gladly. The - term is believed to have been originated by Charles Dickens, tbe author, au-thor, in his "Tale of Two Cities." In it he ends a chapter by describing the dark elonds of trouble rolling away, and the end Twenty-three." Should fortune move as the term originated described, Cootty may yet be blessed "Twenty-three." |