Ogden Sun | 1905-12-26 | Page 6 | Even Court Wore a Smile

iven COURT WHEN A BOY CONFESSED HE HAD STOLEN watermelons WATER MELONS judge would rejoice to inflict punish ment on a whiskey seller from fridays standard tho echo of the River dalo affair was silenced in judge murphys Murp hys court this morning moroni shapley pley the elder of the two boys who whipped the town constable was fined 5 and costs of court this alno was recommended by the county attorney and counsel for the defendant after they understood the situation the court stated that he cared not so much to punish tha boys as ho did to apprehend appie hend the parties who cold liquor to minors in Rl verdale it was brought out in the confessions of the boys hat ho constable had been drinking with the boys prior to the fight there are enough grownup grown up people in weber county to dispose of the surplus liquor A person selling liquor to irresponsible parties should be punished to the full extent of the law said the indignant judge as he dismissed the defendant some mirth followed the remark of the shapley boy when he was being questioned by the judge were you ever arrested before asked murphy well just once last summer I 1 was caught stealing watermelons water melons and paid a fine when arrested answered shipley lawyer spectator and even the dignity of the court melted into d broad i smile as this little dialogue took them back to boyhood tricks otto pleaded not guilty to the charge of vagrancy he was the informing party in the bicycle case of yesterday the case was continued until later