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Show STORY OF THE MISSING PLATES The final act of tho drama of the missing plates was acted out in police court this morning when the three vllllans in the piece received twonty days each- Tom Hunt, Speck Joseph and George Parker filled the loading roles and each had a prominent .part in tho play. Tho drama opens wfth a scone In which the- proprietors of the Ellto cafo report to the police that a number of dinner plates wero taken from the rear of tholr cafe Saturday afternoon and descriptions of the missing artl-clos artl-clos are given. Patrolmen Lovor and Peterson aro first oallod ln and later Detectives Burke and Chambers enter en-ter In the next scone, tho detectives find that the miBfllng property had been sold to a second-hand dealer for 20 cento and from the dealer n good dofiCTlptioa of the vfllifla vbo didjh soiling is secured and thc detectives .depart. When the next scene oneuB, tho three leading characters occupy the center of the atago with a large can of beer bought with the procecd3 of their thlcvory. Enter the detectives, who rush tho three men off to tho cold cells of the police station. In the last act, Judge-Reeder is seen occupying a prominent position and tho three offenders are seated on thc bench, cringing and downcast Each recites a short story excusing his actions, ac-tions, and again they seat themselves to await the pleasuro of the magistrate magis-trate The climax comes when thoy are denounced as villains and sentenced sen-tenced to twenty dnvs each. |