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Show HEAVY FINE IS IMPOSED ON WAGNER J. W Wagner was given a sentence of- 60 days or $00 in police court thia morning. The charge against him was vagrancy, but it Is suspected that he has been the "man higher up" In certain deals which have been pullo.i off at the depot. Wagner has been in town nearly four months and has boeu staying with his wife and baoy at one of the local hotels. He admitted admit-ted that during that time he has not worked at his business as an auctioneer. auc-tioneer. John Corral pleaded guilty to the chargo of A'agrancy and was sentenced to 20 days. He was arrested by Patrolman Pa-trolman O. E. Swanson after coming 'roni a Chinese 6tore on Twenty-fifth street. Swnnson accused him of buying buy-ing "dope'and asked the man to tell him wherejhe got it. This Corral refused to do, saying that he was no "stool pigeon." "It vas the quinine and not th3 whisky which affected me," said Geo. Davis, the man who arrested himself by coming to the jail to ask for a bed. The judge may not have believed this, but as this was the first offense ho was given his liberty under a suspended sus-pended sentence. Maggie Messenger, an old offender, was given 15 days after she haJ pleaded guilty to the charge of vagrancy. va-grancy. oo |