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Show Judge Rood Handles a very Bsiiuate Case. . Blanche Scrtt and Minnie Naison, Two Young Provo Girls, In the ToiJs. They Are Sent to Judge Blackburn For Committal to the Reform School. Judge Xoon had quite a delicate case to handle on Monday afternoon, when Blanche Scott, 13 years of age, and Minnie Xelson, 15 years of age, were brought before him on a charge of disturbing the peace. These are t he same two girls who were brought back from Salt Lake a short time since by Marshal Rruwn. The complaint was sworn to by Marshal Brown, and alleged that the two girls had been with a crowd of boys on Sunday night last, and that they did disturb the peace of residents of West Main street, near Third street. The Judge had considerable difficulty in making them understand in regard to pleading, but finally succeeded. They entered a plea of not guilty. Minnie Nelson then stated she was ready for trial, and Marshal Brown and Officer Hill were sworn for the pros-.-cution. Their testimony was to the effect v that on Sunday evening they had observed the defendants on West Mam street There were fully fifteen boys present, ranging in age lrom 15 to 20 years, and that they were making a very loud noise, shouting, and using indecent and vulgar language; whenever when-ever the girls would move, the boys would all follow, and laugh and shout. Tiie neighbors in that vicinity had, on Monday morning, made complaint of the iisturbance. -i iiie Nelson testified in her own bt...cii that she went up town Sunday night with Blanche Scott, and while theiv- rnet her brother and "the Snow feller;'" they all went towards home; while standing on the street corner Snow called her to one side and spoke to her a short time. She went home immediately and went to bed. Mr. King Isn't it a fact that you ran away to Salt Lake iiort tims ago, and tried to get inu a house of ill-fame? H-'tfnci's I went to Salt Lake to get work,but did not try to get into a house of ill-fame. 1 met a man on the street there who asked me if I wanted to get woi-k; he told me he knew a real nice lady who would pay me $4 a week, and I would not nave to work much for it. We both went with him and saw the lady, who turned out to be the keeper et a fad house, and she advised us to go home, and offered to pay our fare. Tiie lady instructed the man to take me to another house, which he did, and hired a room, and then left us thera. The next day the Marshal of Salt Lake met us ou the street and took us in charge; we were then brought b.ick to Provo by Marshal Brown. The witness further stated ttjat she knew she did not carry a good name here in Provo. Blanche Scott was then asked if she was ready to be tried; she stated she was. biit on account of none of her regions being present, Mr. King ai-ktd tlutt the ease be postponed until her mother could be brought. Officer Hilt was sent alter her, and alter a lapso of about an hour he returned w:th her and the c ise proceeded. Mr. Kit-g stated that it was the intention in-tention of the officers to place both girls in the reforta school. Mrs. Scott, the mother of the defendant, de-fendant, stated thbt she did not want her daughter to be sent there, as her daughter was the only one she had to depend on; that she was sick nearly all the time, and required waiting on; her daughter was the only one she had to do this, and if the officers would only let her off she would keep her strictly at home, adding that it was the influence of the Nelson girl that made her daughter ruu around so much. Marshal Brown was again called to the witness stand, and stated that on Sunday night the defendant, Elanche Scott, "had been in the crowd with the Nelson girl, and had been making a loud noise. During the row some boy rode up on horseback, and rode across the street east; the Scott girl followed and the boys all followed her. The boy on the horse tried to pull Blanche on the horse, but the boys in the crowd kept pulling her off; they were having a glorious time; but she finally succeeded suc-ceeded in getting ou the horse, and just as 1 arrived they rode off. We went to her home and waited, and some time after she rode up and dismounted dis-mounted at the house. Officer Hill corroborated the Mar shal's testimony. Blanche Scott then testified: I went to the drug store ou Sunday evening with Minnie Nelson, and mot "the Snow feller' and Minnie's bi other; we walked towards home with them; 1 left them on the street corner, saying I would be back in a few minutes; I went home, aud in returning I saw a crowd of boys; I did not want to speak to them, so passed oa, but they followed fol-lowed me; a boy rode up on horseback and asked me to get on tbr horse; 1 did so and rode around n, and iinallv rode home; 1 did in make any noise nor disturb the peace; 1 go out a givai, deal at ni.ots with hoys, tint don't go down in ihe fields with them, nor niiUe a noise; I know 1 get a had name, but. I am not bad; lam rough, but 1 don't have any mean thoughts nor do wrong; I went to Salt Lake to hunt work; 1 was brought back by Marshal Brown. Mrs. Scott, the mother of the defendant, de-fendant, here burst into a ser,es of "weeping and wailing," trying hard ! to induce tears to flow, but in vain; j her no se so disturbed the Court that I he asked that she be taken out. Officer Hill tried to persuade her to accom-1 pany him. and alter a while sue-! cecded. The girls were then allowed j to return home, by promising to return re-turn Wedivsd-iy morning at 10 o'clock. ! Justice Noon will make proper pa- ; ' pevs out, ami the cuse will be taken ' j before Judge Blackburn. had bcenlonesome. In hislittle miner's cabin in Strawberry gulch, near Clancy, in Jefferson county, his body was found, with a frightful hole torn through the breast. This note was found near by: "I don't want to put anybody to any trouble. Bury me in the coffin I have made and the grave I have dug." A few rods from the cabin was a newly made grave, and by it a rude coffin. Quietly and in order the old miner had gone about his final arrangements. ar-rangements. Seating himself in the single chair in his cabin he put his trusty rifle, the sole companion of his life, to his breast, and touched the trigger with a stove-poker. On the quiet hill he sleeps in peace. He had been mining in California, Idaho, Ne- vada and Montana for twenty years. His circle of acquaintances was always small. A brother lives somewhere in Michigan. |