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Show OFFENDERS ARE SENTENCED BY COURT After listening to the testimony or i five defendants and three witnesses I In the case of the city against the negro and wedding guests, charged with disturbing the peace Wednesday I night, the court was almost as much In the dark, regarding the origin of the fight, as he w.is at the beginning of the trial None of the witnesses appeared to know all the facts of the case. The defendants were B. W Mat thews, a negro, and four white men. I E H. Garland Ray Branting Walter Gale and M. Krumperman Matthews I was given a sentence of 25 days or I $25. Garland and Branting were given giv-en sentences of seven days or Walter Gale was given the opportun-; opportun-; i ty of serving three days or paying j fine of $3 and Krumperman was dls-charged dls-charged It developed that Krumperman. Krumper-man. In the role of peacemaker camo out with the greater injuries. Ida Matthews, the w ife of the negro, testified that she was coming home from a picture show about 11 o'cH ck that night and was walking back of the guests to the Field wedding. StH ald that one of the men turned and asked why that negro wench was following fol-lowing them. Other words followed, until Mrs Matthews ran to her home and complained to her husband. Her husband, she said rushed from the house with an unloaded shotgun and B free-for-all fight resulted. From the ofners, It developed that the party was a Jolly one and the guests were returning from a coffee house where they had gone to get some beer when the trouble resulted Judge Reeder held that the negro I did wrong in using a shotgun as a weapon in the fight Harry Donnelly and John Murphy, two men charged with drunkenness, were sentenced to serve five days I each by Judge Reeder this morning The two were among the six prison- 1 ers who went on strike at the city jail on Tuesday. |