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Show 00 HUNGRY MEN LANDED IN ' JAIL Because three hungry mon accepted accept-ed the 'invitation of Yalmer Ander-HOn Ander-HOn to eat a square meal in a Japanese Jap-anese restaurant, they wore sentenced in Police court this morning to Servo ten days upon the municipal stone pile. Tho hospitable Swede was broke at tho time ho acted as host. The victims of Anderson's phllan-throphy phllan-throphy were arrested in front of tho Okuruma restaurant, Monday night, in company with their host, who at tho time was on an extended drunk. Yesterday Yes-terday Anderson was sentenced to serve ten days for intoxication. His unfortunate guests declined to plead guilty to tho charge of vagrancy and their trial was set for today. The first witness called in this case of muddled generosity was the proprietor propri-etor of the restaurant, Frank Okur- uma, who, through an Interpreter, testified tes-tified that four men had entered his place and three of them had eaten especially large meals. The fourth man, who was intoxicated, sat with them and talked while they ate. When tho meal was finished the men said that the fourth man was- to pay tho bill and walked out of the restaurant, restau-rant, tho fourth following. An offl-cor offl-cor was called and the quartette ar-roBted. ar-roBted. The first of the defendants to testify tes-tify gavo hlH name as Frank Sneidor, and stated that he was a German. "I have been working in Bingham Canyon," he said, "but lost my job there and came to Ogden expecting to got work either on the double tracking track-ing of tho railroad or at something else. I mot theBe other fellows and - wo were standing together on tho street when a man came up to us and said: " 'I am a Swede what are you, a Dutchman or an Irishman?' "The Swede wanted to buy a drink but It was so late that the saloons wgre all closed and we told hlin wo would rather have something t- eat He told us ho knew a good place to eat and ho would buy us ail we wanted. He led tho way into a restaurant and told us to order and he would foot the bill. We thought he had money but he was broke, the same as we were." The second man gave tho name of John Suttart, and said he was an Italian. The third was Joe Mess-ner Mess-ner by name, and an Austrian by birth. Both thoso men's stories were the same as Sneider's. The city attorney ridiculed the men for being broke and for accepting tho invitation to eat, tendered as it was by a drunken man. The judge, In passing sentence, said that he did not think Sneider or Suttart would accept work If It was offered them. E. J Dugan and David H. Hoffman, charged with being drunk, forfeited bonds of $5 each by not appearing to answer for trial. Charles Scott forfeited a bond of $5 on the charge of disturbing the peace by non-appearance. |