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Show YOUNG MAN IS VICTIM OF I OPIUM Among the number of men charged with vagrancy who appeared before Judge Reeder In police court this morning was a voting man who claims to be the brother of William R Sibley, Sib-ley, manager ior the Auerbach department depart-ment store In Salt l,j.-i:e He gave the name of George Riley when arrested ar-rested and is a confessed morphine user When asked regarding his past hls-tor hls-tor the young man said he had been graduated from the Salt Iakf Hieh school and soon after, through bad as sociates, had begun to smoke opium and from that time he said he sank lower until now he "shoots" morphine into his system with a hypodermic I needle His brother, he said, had tried .o influence him to stop the drug and had him confined in the county jail for 90 das undergoing treatment but upon being releas. d be was so melancholy mel-ancholy that he took up the habit again. His case was taken under ad- i visement W. H. Shaw, the man who tried to "mooch" from passers by yesterday ' and then abused them If they did not give him money, was on the verge of the "Jimmies" this morning due to a long battle with John Barlevcorn He said be regretted his actions and showed l ri from foremen on the Oregon Short Line to prove his respectable re-spectable past I'pon claiming that he could secure I pass to Pocatello. where he is io go to work, the Judge granted him the use of the telephone and ordered him released as soon as he Is able to go to a t ra i n After telling a story of hard luck Ernest Ard. 18 years old. was glveu a suspended sentence on the charge of vagrancy He said his parents were dead and that he had found great difficulty in securing work. |