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Show JAP ESCAPES THE LAW'S PENALTY Holding that while the defendant was doubtless guilty, tho charge had not been legally proven, Judge J. D. Murphy, in police court this morning, morn-ing, acquitted Frank Moreyes,- the Japanese proprietor of a Grant avenue billiard hall and restaurant, who was tried on the charge of having received re-ceived stolen property. According to the complaint, Moreyes Mor-eyes had purchased a number of chickens chick-ens from Clarence Peterson, Joseph Eastman and R. C. White, the three boys who confessed to the theft of the goods and who, in the district court, pleaded guilty to the charge or burglary in the second degree. All three of the youths told of the sale of the chickens to the restaurant man, who paid for them at tho rnte of 25 cents each. None of the boys testified testi-fied that he had told tho Japanese that the goods were stolen, but each of tho boys told of the great caution which Moreyes exercised to prevent any one witnessing the tinnsfcr of the chickens to him. In passing on the case, the judge said that he would render a Scotch verdict of "Guilty, but not proven," and on this judgment would dismiss the defendant. Frank Okumura, the proprietor of the Eagle restaurant, who was arrested ar-rested at the same time Moreyes was arrested, will be tried tomorrow morning. morn-ing. Okumura is charged with receiving re-ceiving stolen property from tho samo boys and about the same evidence will be submitted in his case as was used by the slate in the case of the Grant avenue restaurant keeper. |