| Show Dp andi Influential HE MAKES ELOQUENT itlie C Hoard pf There was a criminal division of tills morning when Judge C Hi H S Boyd to servo a term ot months lii ex deadly was arrested days nt In of Brig and a Mr hi Boyd board bill ot more than and he went to collect lit Boyd drew 11 knife and threatened to use t on j Tho latter down and then had him arrested they saw open cla p his hand ad 1 In passing upon Boyd this morning Judge wild a i one of six months in comity but I arid that your was duo more to than to else that perhaps you would not have acted a us did had hadIt It the fact that buen drinking for some sometime time Judge Blehl then a of three months in Jan Before was pronounced however Boyd asked permission to a statement This wari granted him and ho mercy A r f wish to I am a man of 40 years of age and this in my life that I over called upon to defend In a court justice for any or viat 1 fully that I have not many years upon that tho and know It 19 thu stigma of conviction for an pf I want to my losses und I hope you will bo easy with as possible under circumstances es t am frank to say that were I in anil you In 1 could else according to tha found you you pronounced judgment upon me Of to me the circum circumstances stances look differently than they did to tho witnessed who against nip and I realize that there is the men that ot otone one jn MAN MANI I wish also to state that I have bean a business my lite and to bo lenient with me Boyd seemed to feel Ills position keenly Tho man Is well educated and apparently comes tram a good There aro nono of the earmarks of a criminal him but rather the air of refinement and business ability Be Before fore being token to jail by Deputy Boyd said that ho was wasa a native of and resided In that state most of his life Of late years bo said he was a whisky but was not addicted to tho u e of liquor and had not touched for just himself into trouble Boyd he was born In Johnson City Tonn and assisted In laying out that city and that a largo addition was named after him Ho said he was an official in National bank there but that a few ni niost ost several thousand dollars in a bank failure at Ho said lib was In the real estate business and not many years ago occupied a seat on the Chicago board of trade After losing many thousands of dollars ho started out as u whisky drummer but after coining to Salt Lako had worked as a bartender IIo declined to discuss his family affairs beyond saying that his relatives lived in Johnson City and he sincerely hoped they would not tha that has befallen him The says ho Is a graduate of King at Bristol Tonn |
