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Show LESS CHEER FOR SHORTY : CHEERS In the Police court this morning "Shorty" Cheers was found guilty' of 1 stealing $32.50 from the Carlyle rooming room-ing house on lower Twenty-fifth street and was sentenced to serve sixty-five days in the city prison. The complaining witness against Cheers was Mrs. Jennie 'Ferguson, proprietress of the Carlyle house, from whom the money was stolen, She told of Cheers renting a room at her jilace on last Friday evening. Saturday night, she said, she had loft tho house for a short time and upon her return found that her purse was stolen. Sh? suspected Cheers nnd when she found that he had been arrested ar-rested for drunkenness notified the police of hor loss. Among the effects taken from the person of Cheers at The police station was the money bag belonging to Mrs. Ferguson. On the stand Cheers displayed a very hazy niomory. He could not remember re-member whether he had stolen the money or not, but presumed that he might have done so lyecause of tho sack being found In his possession. He said that he was drunk during all of the time tbat he was at the Caryle house- He Intimated that ho had been robbed of $50 while in his room at that place but his story was so disconnected and uncortaln that it offered him little In tho way of defense de-fense Alma Harrle, a colored woman, charged with vagrancy, was fined $25 or twenty five days. Sho wns arrested arrest-ed for street walking G. W. Snider and E. J. Brown, the men arrested for working a surething game and or'slnally charged with gambling, were to have been arraigned arraign-ed on a charge of obtaining money under false pretence but did not make their appearance in court. Their bonds of $100 each were forfeited. oo- |