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Show PUNISHED FOR RUNNING FROM THE POLICE Had Kenneth Brcwn, a young man charged with begging, not taken to h.s heels when the police arrived in the neighborhood looking for him, he weuld probably have received a suspended sus-pended sentence but as he did flee, and had to be captured, he secured a sentence of five days. Brown confessed that he was begging beg-ging but h declared he wa3 hungry and could not starve. When asked why he ran when the police appeared he said that he knew he would be put In jail of caught and consequently had not submitted to arrest. Judge Reeder said that he did not blame Brown for begging when he was hun-bul hun-bul he did think he should be taiichf not to run from the police John Fergus6on wag given a sus-d sus-d sentence aft- he had pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness, on condition that he should end the protracted spree Fereusson wore a light suit that looked as though he had slept in the streets for a night or so and his nervous condition was such that, to the onlookers, delirium tremens seemed not far awav He Ifl an Ogden resident and promised that he would go home and remain until thoroughly recovered from his weakness. |