| Show REFUSES TO TELL T OF ALLEGED BURGLARY A clear ch ar case caso of intimidation was bc be before fore foro tho Judge of the municipal court yesterday C and tho the victim I L was released and told to t go back to his Ills work I According to the testimony Charles Charle Jones a young oung man of only 19 ID 9 years camo came to the police station a few days ago ngo and advised Detective Ponder I that he had been hold up p and robbed of 14 Ho gave Jave a good description i of ot tho mao man ho suspected and the of officers 0 I went to work on the case caRe f Pr I I told tho the young fellow that he ho would bo be needed as a witness and for him to remain where he be could be called The Tho man alleged by br tho UIO boy to have held him up was wan located and to toI wake ko certain of Jonos Jones a al a 0 witness I he was taken in charge chargo by b tho oW officers cers corti and placed in Jull Jail 1 Friday morning when whon the tho th time limo I camo carno for tor tho filing of the complaint against the party hay hav having ha Jag ing committed tho the robbery Jones was again n regarding the mat matter mattor mattor tor ter and ho stated that ho be could not no recognize the man who had robbed s him and that ho he really could not say sa BU whether he ho bad bI been boen rob robbed robbed robbed bed or that he ho had lost loet any an money By this time the officers were com completely nonplused the tho rob robber bor ber was released and the tho young man charged with vagrancy V n c Detective Pender Fender told the tho story etory of or tho the caso to the court and ond explained that ho he thought tho the boy had boon been frightened d dIn in Komo way against telling L lUng tho the court the tbt story etor of ot tho the holdup Jones was W 8 placed on tho the witness p stand and told to give his version of the affair and explain why wh ho lie had hud told the officers that ho he had been rob robbed robbed bed lied and then had refused to tell tc the truth The defendant stated that thal he came camo down from Idaho a n few fow days ago ngo paid his fare fure on the train and had forty fort cent centi when he reached Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den He said eald he was a teamster and an 1 could got get work at any time and that he lie would like to go buck back to Idaho and resume work When hen the court asked him Mm why wh he told the officers ho had been heen robbed of 11 and had then de do denied denIed donled nied that ho had lost any money mono ho he hosId sId auld that ho had been pumped by parties in tho the Jail who informed him himI it would be much bettor better for fol him to let the matter mattor matt r drop lie Ho said and thoy told him that hal I It might not ho bo very cry good for him It if I ho testified against tho the follow and he hf came to the conclusion that If the court would let him return to bitt job joh in Idaho he ho would lo let tho the mattor matter drop eo to ho told the officers that ho did dill not remember whether he heh had h lost bat an nn any mOtH mono money and If I he did he ho could not nol toll who ho the man was that robbed him The rhe court told the tho young man that ho hu would bo released from the vagrancy ag rancy charge with tho the understanding und that ho hurry hurr back hack to his Job jOl in Ida Idaho Idaho Idaho ho and remain there ther until ho could tako take oare nare of o himself among the sharp men mon of ot tho the world The young oung man lost no time in getting away awn from the tho statIon Tho The officers are of the opinion that thal the boy bo was robbed of his but that Home some of the prisoners got hold bold of If him Wm In Jail and made mado him believe something awful would happen to him if it ho hn persisted In |
