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Show FIGHTERS IN POLICE COURT In police court this morning J. M. Breen and Richard Smith, charged with dlsturolng the peace, were found guilty and sentenced to pay fines of ?10 each or spend a corresponding number of days on the city s stono Pile. The case against Charles Tertleson, also charged -with -dlsiurblng the peace, was dismissed. Tertleson, it appeared by the testimony produced, had not personally disturbed the peace, having been merely used unwillingly un-willingly as a disturber by Breen and Smith The disturbance occurred In a lower Twenty-fifth street saloon and In the melee Tertleson was most summarily knocked out He could remember re-member very little of the occurrence, but his bnttered face gave mute testimony tes-timony of the part he played. Tertleson's general appearance would Indicate that there were other men engaged In the brawl besides Breen and -Smith, 'hut the testimony showed that the two defendants received re-ceived no outside aid. Each of the defendants, however, was larger than the victim. , W E. Chester, who becamo Involved In a fight with two Indians, pleaded guilty to the charge of disturbing the peace and was fined $5 or five days The case against the two red men was continued as one of them had no recovered sufficiently from the effecu? of the engagement to appear In court John Kelly was fined ?5 or five days for being unlawfully drunk A bond of 55 was forfeited by P Howe, who did not appear to answer to the charge of Intoxication. |