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Show MISHAP DRIVER GETSS5 0 FINE ' Dan Murdoch. 30, of 120 U street, Was sentenced In police court Wednesday Wed-nesday to pay a fine of IV) or eerve 11 daya In city bill for reck-ieaa reck-ieaa driving on December la. Police court records show that Murdoch, a University of Utah student, stu-dent, waa arrested on December 21. five days after a two-car crash at Eighth South and West Temple t reels . Traffic Officers. C. F. Pstrce and K. N. Olson reported they arrested j Blair 8. Steed, 21, of 2433 Seventh ' East street, on the reckless chsrge because Steed allegedly reported I himself driver of the ear that waa ( listed to Congressmen Murdoch. Charge Filed On December 21, however, the officers of-ficers said, they learned that Mur- i dock waa driving the machine and that Steed, being possessor of sn i operator's license, which Murdoch reportedly did not have, had passed himself off as the driver of tha car. Charges againat Steed were dropped on that date and Ilka charges filed againat Mur dork, who Pleaded guilty to reckless driving Tuesday In police court, with sentence sen-tence continued until Wednesdsy. Other cases heard by Judge Keva Beck Boson e Included 11 accused speeders, one of whom had lift f a lift fine suspended. Judge Bosone, now In the second sy of her third year on the police court bench, said aha was allowing suspension of fines in speeding Cases where the accused wss not traveling more then 40 mllea an an hour until the new 30-mtlo limit had been In effect a few more Weeks. Leniency Miewa Arthur C Green, 23, of 443 Debs place, accused of speeding 40 miles an hour, waa the speeder who had lift of the I2S fine Imposed againat him suspended. Other accused speeders: Reymond Rosa, 23, of 133 South State street, bencn warrant Issued; William L Slater, 22. Woods Crosa, bench warrant; war-rant; WiHism C, Peirce, 22, Bandy. 1 plea not guilty, trial January II, and I he following, all of whom pleaded guilty and were sentenced to pay 12ft each or serve eight dsya in Jail: Joseph H. Woolston. ea3 Weat Third South atreet; Uersld B. Ballaln. 22, of 330 South West Temple atreet; Orval Phelps, 21, Midvala: Prank Moeller, 1, of I4H0 Thirteenth East street: Arthur H. Minor, 30, of 34 East Sixth South street, and Lawrence B. Royal, II, f M Goshen street, aw. Maxwell. 2, of 1122 Park treet, forfeited lift ball bond on a speeding charge. Guilt Admitted ! Wesley Osguthorpe, 20, of Sl Twenty-seventh East street, pleading plead-ing guilty te a charge of falling to yield the right-of-way, reduced from reckless driving, wss sen- ; lencod to pay 2ft, with 111 suspended. sus-pended. Harry Porsey, 22, of M South Wolcott atreet, arrested after an accident ac-cident December 30 at Fourteenth ' East afreet and Browning avenue, ) admitted falling to yield the right-of-way to another car and waa sen- ' fenced to pay I2S, with lit sus- - Bended. Thomas 8. Davis, M, of 1380 South I 'West Temple street, driver of a truck that' allegedly crashed Into a parked ear late Tuesday, denied a reckless driving charge and will be tried January 12. - Charged with pasalng traffic fights, Keith Brtnghuret, 21, of 421 North Main atreet. and Alfred W. Nieman. 24, of 173 East South Temple Tem-ple street, admitted guilt and were lined 110 each, while John P. Koch, 47, of 131 East Second South street, and P. R. Remington, 45, Vernal, forfeited 110 bail bond each. - V. S. Snow, oft. of JK2 Canyon road, forfeited 110 ball bond for Ignoring a atop aign, while West-ley West-ley Dansie, 23, of 1010 Hudson avenue, ave-nue, waa fined 110 when he admitted like charge. |