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Show CARNIVAL WAS PRODUCTIVE OF FIGHTS J .1 Johnson charged with disturb ing the peace at the carnival grounds on Saturday night, was found guilty In Judge Reeder this morning bin sentence was suspended According to the testimony of witnesses, wit-nesses, Johnson bad bet Pellman, a carnival employ, ?1 against a glass vase that Johnson could strike a punching machine harder than the employe Johnson won the bet and I took the vase which engendered hard feelings and resulted In a quarrel During the argument, Johnson struck Pellman ou the head with the vase and later was arrested W hile held by an officer, Johnson claim- Pellman took advantage of his position an struck him. Pellman had been arrested but put up bail and forfeited it this mornm. George Lucas was another young man to get into trouble at the shnv. grounds on Saturday He was charge ed before Judge Reeder with using obscene ob-scene language. According to testimony, testi-mony, the cause of his profanity was a dog fight He was fined $20 Roy Hon was given a suspended sentence Ilorr had been arrested In company with fleorge Lloyd, who. It Is alleged, had been selling dm:s to users of morphine and cocaine j Lloyd did not appear and forfeited ?lo bail. A continuance was taken In the case i of C. Koovman charged with pett larceny He was arrested Saturday night on complaint of T F Stoddard who had lost a harness from hia horse, tied in the rear of the stores on Wash '.ngton nvenue. between Twenty-fourth and Twenty third streets. Kooyman admitted that he bad sold the $20 harness for $2 50, but claimed that the harness had been given to him to sell on commission. Ths judge asked that a man named Wilson be looked for Kooyman claims that a man by that name gave him the harness. The case of J. D Lepper, charged with obtaining from Mrs P D. Shupe a sewing machine by fraudulent pre tense was continued until tomorrow morning. oo |
