Show DRUNKS WERE MANY IN pol ace COURT bottles of whiskey were purchased saturday city enriched from wednesdays standa d it was tho aftermath 0 christmas day in police court tho long page of the jail record was filled drunks i as thieves and sunday saloon ordinance breakers all mingled in a miscellaneous assortment awaiting the pleasure of the court mr clerk read your number of drunks said the judge ed fuller P freeman and fred joonson answered the bleik it was christmas yesterday give each a suspended sentence of twenty days and allow them to go during sober behavior A chorus of thanks came back to his honor as the trio left the room free to go and drink some more bugs came in for the mercy of the court usually the fine is twenty days but the christmas influence over the judge reduced this to daya each in the case of T marsh and john stevens greeks filled the room to witness the trial of one of their countrymen for petit larceny frank was accused by guy liberto of having stolen his masquerade suit emphatically denied the charge and waving his arms stated that he could prove his innocence when he was told to bring hla witnesses he found to his dismay that one of the eyewitnesses of the affair was missing the court the case until tomorrow rooming P T smyth and the live men caught in his saloon sunday night failed to put in an appearance smyth forfeited 50 and his customers left with the city sums of from 5 to 10 when taken by the officers the men each had a flask of whiskey obtained saturday to last over sunday this is an example of the method employed by drinkers to circumvent the sunday ordinance di nance of the eighteen men arrested and booked for trial yesterday morning two thirds of them forfeited bail the sum taken in this way totaled over the city needs the money mr clerk you forfeit those bails this is the way the judge viewed the situation when he was informed of the holiday money that had found its way into the cites box |