| Show I JUDGE IRATE IN CHECK CASE Criticizes Merchants Who Use Courts Merely to Force Collection JUdge John A Hendricks this morning criticised the th attitude of merchants toward to bad check pass passers ers era when he be h passed sentence on onIt R It E Jessup aged aced 20 R B F D No 1 Logan Loean one ot of o the two men who gave fictitious checks to clothiers here hero last week When Informed by County At- At Attorney Attorney At Attorney torney Parley that a clothier had told Jessup In Logan Logun that he h would not prosecute him It if Itlie ithe lie he paid pattI the amounts of ot the checks Judge Hendricks said The merchants seem scent to be b In Inthe Inthe the habit of ot using the court for lor lorI fora toru I a collection agency They swear out warrants and then refuse to prosecute It tile the th defendant pays the amount of ot the check DISHONESTY PATS l In so doing doln r he continued they encourage such acts It If anyone passes a fictitious check such Ruch as tills this young man did and andis andla Is not apprehended financially he gains If It on tho the other band be is ts caught he h pays pas pay the amount and this Is taken as an excuse by the merchant to fall il 11 to prose prose- prosecute prosecute prosecute cute As A a 0 result th the tha bad check checkman checkman checkman man loses nothing Judge Hendricks Hendrick further sig lg that merchants would bo be asked to put up a cash ball bail to In In- In sure lure ur their prosecuting such mat mat- matters matter tera ter before the police pollee would act acton acton acton on them Jessup told the court this morn morn- mornIng morn lag Ing that 0 O G Gibbons Instigated the plan to defraud merchants County Attorney further Informed the tho court court that mer mer- merchants nier- nier merchants chants had refused d to sign a com corn complaint complaint plaint against Gibbons when the they were told that they would havo bavo to prosecute even It the youths should pay Both Doth Gibbons and Jessup paid LENIENCY ASKED County Attorney asked leniency for tor or Jessup on the ground that he was as only a party to the scheme while Gibbon Gibbons had not been arrested A day 30 suspend suspend- suspended cd ed sentence was given by the th court courton courton courton on grounds ground that Jessup would l re- re re reimburse burso the city for tor the expense ot of returning him hint to Ogden Ofden Police Sergeant L L W Pack and D tec- tec tive A J Gale Gal returned Jessup Monday afternoon y j |
