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Show JUDGE HAS THE' LAUGH ON A PRISONER Judge W. H. Reedcr had much amusement at the expense of one .Mike Daly, charged with mendicancy, this morning, and then, to show there were no hard feelings, gave Daly suspended sentence. Whllt the Judge was walking alons noon, he va& approached by Daly, ho was considerably the worse lor liquor Daly (--topped the judge and asked if he was a Dative of Ogden For a Joke, the judge told him he Vai from Philadelphia This surprised Daly who told the Judge that he was from the same city and had condtli ' ed a saloon at Twenty-third and Vine streets and that he had also driven the patrol wagou. After imparting this information, he Casually asked the judge for a loan and was grieved that a Philadelphian should refuse a fellow citizen. The Judge passed on and Daiy tackled others before he was finally arrested. Knowing that Daly did not recor, nize him in police court this morning, morn-ing, the judge asked as to his residence resi-dence Daly 6ald he was born and reared in Omaba and was a secLlon boss. "Were you ever lu Philadelphia?' askpfl tlm Judge. "No, I never was, your honor " "Suppose I should say that I kpev you In Philadelphia and you conduct ed a saloon at Lnc and Twenty third street, and that I knew you when you drove the patrol?" This last was too much for Daly. "You ve got me all right, judc , he said, laughing in an embarrassed fashion "1 arn from Philadelphia, but It was not me that ran the patrol It was my brother, Joe. He's dead now " When the Judge explained the situation, sit-uation, Daly was still further embarrassed, embar-rassed, but he cheered up somewhat when the suspended sentence was kw-en. |