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Show 'DRUG VICTIM ASKS LONG SENTENCE FOR A CURE waa too often, and sentenced him to pay a fine of 13. , Bob Jenta looked Blue. Hi blue shirt, blue trousers, blue socks, and blue cap matched! his Teutonic blue eyes. Jenta was blue because he was charged with , being drunk. He was a soldier and I thought of what would happen to him at the fort after the City court had finished fin-ished with him. - -."No complaint against Bob Jenta,". said Clerk Leary. ' , "No case against you, said the court, "no complaint filed against you. Tou may go. Get your things at the desk sergeant's offlce.' Jenta went, but there was a different kind of light In his eyes when he left the courtroom. They sparkled with a blue light of hope, but the blue look had gone out of his face. .- "W. S. Mcintosh and Jack Chase, who pleaded guilty ; Thursday to having stolen two lengths of water main belonging be-longing to the Crane company, ap-" ap-" peared in Police court Friday afternoon for sentence. - v Mcintosh, who is but 19 years old, and who haa had many friends among lada of his own age. asked for a chance to say a word or two before sentence was passed. "If your Honor please," be said respectfully, re-spectfully, "I was partly Intoxicated when I committed the theft. I had been drinking for some time; In fact. I had i been drinking since I lost my Job several sev-eral weeks ago." "Where were you employed V. aaked the court. , "I waa a hdstler'a helper In the Rio Grande roundhouse and I lost my Job several weeks ago. I had not been drinking before I lost my Job, but when I was thrown out of employment I became be-came discouraged and drank to drown - my troubles. I throw myself on the leniency of the court." Chase also asked a hearing. "I, too, beg the leniency of the court, as, like Mcintosh, I was inebriated. . otherwise I would not have committed the misdemeanor." "Chase," said the court, "you use the drug, don't you?" "I used It a great deal at one time, but I am making a desperate fight to Quit it I was drlnklv when, I took -x the property." , "Mcintosh," said Judge Diehl. "you . should remember that troubles are like corks when you try to drown them in liquor they always v come to the top. . - The sentence of the court is that each of you pay a fine of $60." " Daniel Harrington looked as If he . were on the brink of the grave. His hair waa matted, his face waa aa yellow as a piece of faded parchment, and his paleled hands trembled as he arose when his case was called. "Tou are charged with vagrancy," aid Clerk Leary. "I am "guilty. Judge," said the accused ac-cused as he placed his trembling hands . . upon the press table for support. - "Tou se the drug, too, do you not?" V "Tea, Judge, I do. I was in Jail a long time once before and was nearly cured, but I got discharged and then I got into in-to the habit again. Will you give me a long sentence, please Judge, so I can get cured? I have no home and no friends." "Sixty days." said Judge Diehl, and Harrington went over the bridge to be cured. see - - ' John Dyson waa charged with being drunk. He waa trembling from the effects ef-fects of his dissipation. "I am guilty. I have lived here fifteen years. Please let me go." . "Ton do not look as if you were in a fit condition to go away from here for a few days." "I am ready to go to work right now. Judge." "I have a job for you, that win be pretty good for you for a few days," said Judge DiehL , "I've got a good Job to go to," pleaded Dyson. "Tour sentence la three days In Jail," . said the court, and that was all for Dyson. Steve Burt, arrested a month ago for being drunk, and arrested again Thura-. Thura-. day on the same charge, pleaded guilty. . Judge Diehl thought that once a month |