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Show WELLS FOUND GUILTY. Judge Noon Fines llim Fifteen Dollars Dol-lars and He Goes to Jail. Matt Wells, the fellow who acted the desperado at The Dispatch ouVe on .Monday night, was belore Justice Moon yesterday afternoon on a charge of malicious ma-licious mischief. D. D. Houtz appeared for the prosecution prose-cution and E. E. Dudley for the defense. de-fense. A number oi witnesses were examined exam-ined for the prosecution, and although none of the witnesses had seen him throw the stones, he v, as at the window about a half minute previous 10 the stones being thrown through. All the witnesses testified that the defendant de-fendant had used threatening language towards s ,-me of the compos. tors. No witnesses were examined for the defense de-fense and no evidence was offered by the defendant himself, ho refused lo even make a statement. Justice Noon, in summing up the evidence, said that although no one had seen the defendant throw the stones, still he was the only man who was in a position to throw them. The defense had offered no evidence, not even denying the evidence introduced by the prosecution. prosecu-tion. He therefore ordered him to pay a fine of $15. In default of payment he was commited to jail. Immediately after this, two complaints, com-plaints, charging him with assault and battery were made out and sworn to by E. S. Carroll an l M. L. Scott, the two men who had been hit with the rocks. To these complaints he plead not guilty and his trial was set for 1 o'clock to-day. |