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Show LODGE SECRET) DISCLOSED IN COURT Had not a test of fraternallsm ben explained In Judge Reeder'e court this morning, tieorge Parker, charged with mendicancy might now be working with the chain gang In tho city cemetery ceme-tery instead of enjoying liberty on a suspended sentence recorded In his r a9es The testimony of the arresting officer. of-ficer. Oscar Swanson, was that Parker Park-er had begged from a voting man from Hooper, who had met Parker In the saloon where the defendant was al leged to have been loafing Frank Walters, the Hooper witness, testl fled that he and Parker had engaged In a matching game and that he had bought the drinks when he won and had loaned Parker 30 cents. The mention of the matc hing game had a wicked sound and when Parker testified he made haste to straighten matters. He and Walters belong to jthe same lodee and he explained that the matching game was but a test to .prove membership in the order. Judge Reeder found the man guilt? i but suspended 6entnce P. J. Lambert, who was arrested with Clark, also was released undr B suspended sentence Lambert ata-ted ata-ted that he had a wife and four chil dren In Salt Lake and was here only 1 to secure work. He had been charged with vagrancy |