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Show CRISP JUSTICE FOR PRISONERS IN POLICE COURT Two Six-Month Terms and ' $5 Fine Imposed in Short Order. "Mra. Millrr. vou ara charged itb being drunk," Hid 1'lrrk Canning ia police court thia morning. "Are you goiltv or lot guillrf" "I'm guilty, your honor." "Six montha ia tho rity jail," aaid Judge J. M. Bowman without an ia-atant'a ia-atant'a hesitation. Justire waa littla mora 'niggard in the raae of H. H. Kuhn, rhargnl with the theft of bieyrie from Herbert ( orbin. mailing rlrrk for the auperin-tendmt auperin-tendmt of the Weatera Union Telegraph Tele-graph eompanr. Hia trial eontinued for a half hour and he waa convicted. Hia aentenee, too, waa fil montha in the city jail. 0. Br- OIonTnarged1ltirTneai!i of pint of adulterated milk, waa called upon to plead before the elerk had tniebed reading the complaint. He underatood the nature of the charge againat him and pleaded not guilty. He will be tried Angnat SO. 6. P. Summerhava, n cement eon-tractor, eon-tractor, pleaded guilty to charge of working a horse with a sore neck. He waa fined $ which he paid When the eaae of Edgar Kurts, charged with being drunk, waa called. J Kurti waa not in the courtroom. Jailer W. H. Wilkinson explained that Kurtz waa "not ripe yet" and the caae went over until tomorrow. Jerry Odell celebrated hia honorable dieebarge from the army yeaterday by getting drunk, rto pleaded guilty ana explained that yesterday waa his first I day of civilian life for several yean 1 and fa had "more money than sense. He was discharged and told the court ; that it was hia intention to take the : first ear to Fort Uonglss and re-enlist ; in the fifteenth infantry. One day 01 civilian life, a part of that day spent , in jail, waa enough for him. No complaints have been filed against ' Jack Hendricks and H. P. M vers, sr-' sr-' rested by Chief of Police S. M. Bar-' Bar-' low at tha Short Line passenger . sta-1 sta-1 tion early yeaterday morning on sus-I sus-I picion of being confidence men. They will rme up for consideration later. Frank Ward, however, who was arrested ar-rested at the aame time, waa permitted to plead guilty of vagrancy, and a sentence of six months in the eity jail was meted out to him. He may escape thla penalty, however, by "beating if before 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.' The ease of T. J. Brady, who was arrested ar-rested at the same time, has gone over until tomorrow, as it is bought he was given a ''floater" under another name soma tin K This ia being paveeti-gated. |