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Show PARASITE IS SENT TO PRISON Declaring that he believed him to be a "white slaver" and the worse parasite para-site upon a fallen woman dint had ever come Into his court, Police Magistrate Mag-istrate J. D. Murphy thlB morning sentenced sen-tenced Harmon Brown to serve one hundred and twenty-five days In prison pris-on or to pay a fine of $12(i. n -vp iv-)u arrested several days ago by Detective James Ponder on a . r.u o iigraucy. It being claimed by tho officer that the man was living off tho shameful earnings of Miss Jcs-bIo Jcs-bIo Williams, a young1 woman of the underworld Charges of the most revolting re-volting kind woro made against Brown by tho arresting officer, who arrerts that he had tho young man under surveillance sur-veillance for sovoral days before his arroat According1 to tho story of Miss Wll-Hnmu Wll-Hnmu on tho witness stand, she has known Brown for nearly four years, having met him In Pott&vlllp, Pa. Although Al-though she ondeavored to shtold the ' man ini'overy way possible, she ad- mltod: tliat she" had come with him I rrqm New York City, stopping off for fbbut': four weeks at Cheyenne. Th, moat impprtant witness agninBt Brown during 'this morning's session was Mrs. J. DaviB, housekeeper of the Palace rooming house. Mrs. DaviB testified that Brown had visited Miss Williams at that resort Sho said that she told h.m that Ogdon was a dangorous city for a rnrRs'to to livo In and that the dotcctivoa would probably prob-ably get him If he stayed here Sho said tnat Brown asked her If sho could not protect him from the city authorities authori-ties and she replied that she could not. In Bumming up the case, before pa-InV pa-InV sentence upon brown, the judge said that to hlsmln d so grlovous was the offenso of the defendant that ho ought to bo sent to the penitentiary. "I would like to start him on his way to state prison,' said the court, "hut on the chargo made against him this is impsslble," |