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Show LTV ' MEXICANS IN POLICE COURT Judge J. D Murphy was called upon up-on in police court IhlG morning' to settle a small belated battle fought toy two Mexicans upon American soil I and he did so by fining Yanauclo Ra- I mos 520 and discharging Gus Young I without sentonco I Several dayB ago Young was sen j chasing Ramos down Wall avenue, I south of Twontj -fifth street As the two men reached Twenty-fifth street, I Riimos turned upon his follower and I was seen to stab Young In the breast I RamoB was prevented from escaping I by the crowd which gathered and I upon tho arrival of Officers Tom Lever I and Hagbert Anderson both of the I two men engaged In the tussle were I placed under arrest The fact that the victim of the othors knife was ,thc I pursuer of the assailant gave grounds I to the belief that the blow might have I been struck In self-defense The in- j ability of both men to speak English I made it impossible for the officers to I ascertain the cause of the trouble. j Some trouble was experienced by I the police In securing an interpreter I of the Spanish language, but one was I brought into police court this morn- I Ing and the story of the two men I was obtained Young claimed that Ra.- J mos had stolen a dollar from him i while they were in a Twenty-fifth j street saloon, aad that when he In- I si6ted that his fellow countryman return re-turn It, the latter had xun He per-Bued. per-Bued. gaining upon the thief When he caught up with Ramos the an turn ed and stabbed him with a knife, which he had drawn from his pocket as he ran. Ramos denies the story of the trouble, trou-ble, but told a rather Improbable talo of Young having found a pocket-book containing a lot of silver dollars, one of which he had taken as hl6 share of the find. oo- |