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Show DIEHL STAGE MNAGES: .: POLICE COURT VOODVILLE are fined. $10 each on charges of being drunk." ,A. Then the curtain went down with a, thud. . ' ' John D. Jackson, a colored gentleman, gentle-man, waa before the court on a vagrancy va-grancy charge. The clause alleging that the defendant waa guilty of "not being; an Indian" eeemed to appeal to John D. Jackson'a aenae of humor, and he exhibited a handsome aet of Ivorlee which he had up to that ltmo kept carefully care-fully concealed in his face. "Ah ain't guilty, Jedge. Ah haa bin a-wohkln' right along. Ah hav' bin a-makln' a-makln' a dollah an a ha'f a day, aah, so Ah aln guilty of no vagrancy." - "Wasn't this defendant before the court on a vagrancy charge some time ago. and wasn't he convicted t Didn't your Honor auspend sentence to give him a chance to get out of . town and stay out?" "Look up the records. Defendant win 'be held for trial' In $100 bonds." "Ah don' happen to have a hundahd dollaha on m, Jedge. - Will yo' all plaae take rath note f oh de amount ontll to-mo-ahr' His note waa not good In the Judgment Judg-ment of the court, and Jackaon ambled over the bridge. alary Connera and Amelia Dudley rehearsed re-hearsed a one-act vaudeville skit with Judge Dlehl, acting aa stage manager, Wednesday afternoon. The scene waa In the Police court. . Mary Connera and Amelia . Dudley were the stars. They appeared before the manager to present the. farce, "Drunk and Fighting ' or Beer and Blows." ' ; "I was staying-, home fer . three months," said Mary Conners," who advanced ad-vanced Into the glare of the spot light in the center of the stage. "It waa me first day up town. -I waa tooken sick an' I drank a few beers and of course I got In here." V - "How about the fighting?" asked the stage manager. "I waa a treatin' her to a few drinks," continued the star. -"an' whilst I waa a-walkln' along, she, Amelia Dudley, the wretch, slapped me on the face." Then there-waa a duet. Both Mrs. Connera and Mrs. Dudley tried to pour their tale of woe Into 4be ears of the stage manager at once. Mrs. Connera waa finally silenced by the manager, who threatened to ring down the curtain, cur-tain, and Mrs. Dudley had her chance for the applaOse. - D. W. Simpson waa charged with trespass. From the statement of the case made by Prosecutor Wllley, Simpson Simp-son might have been charged with Insanity, In-sanity, if the right officials had arrested arrest-ed him. , "He Is charged with trespassing on the premises of the Grand Pacific hotel," ho-tel," said Prosecutor Wllley, "and with sleeping In the cellar of the hotel. He was told to go and he went to Bleep again. He was not In a bed. though there were beds for rent In the hoteL" "I'm guilty," said Simpson. "I waa drinking and got sleepy." "Five daya to get sober In," said Judge Dlehl. Complaints charging M. 8. Davis with petty larceny; Charles Hogan, violating vio-lating Sunday liquor ordinance; James Lee, abusive, language; Derb Wilson and others, discharging firearms In the city limits, and Horace Howe, destroying destroy-ing property, were dismissed on motion of Prosecutor Dave Wllley. The complaint charging her with fighting waa read by Clerk Leary, who bad a minor speaking part. "They wasn't no bruises what I put on Mary Conners. I only -tapped her once or twice Jlsr 'fer fun. I didn't mean nothin' by it." Another duet waa started but both the vocalists were on the wrong key and neither sang In the right time. Order Or-der waa- again restored, and when they were asked If they bad been drunk, they chanted In unison. "Yes, yer Honor, we had a little jag. We got to quarrelin' an' chewln' the rag. - I swatted her an' she tried to bite my ear-Jack ear-Jack Brown, the copper, saw us, an' that's why we're here." "That's enough of this farce," said Judge Dlehl, who laid aside his managerial man-agerial duties and threw the ermine over bla shoulders. "Defendants are discharged on charges of fighting and |