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Show FIFTY SAYS Hi DDT TD A SHOE THIEF The ca-e of the city vs. Ambrose j M. Barrett was heard in the municipal munici-pal court this morning. The defend-j defend-j ant was accused of petit larceny. It being alleged that he stole several of shoes from a Denver & Km Grande frriKht car. on prll 24 He was arraigned yesterdav and entered a plea of not guilty. He was arrested ar-rested by Detective Robert Chambers on tne day the offense was commi'. ted and that officer was the first witness wit-ness for the city. William Lawton, a trucker employed employ-ed at the Denver & Rio tirande freight house, testified that he saw Barrett under a car during the noon hour. Ilo heard the defendant say "Someone is coming'' and a moment later saw him make a move as though to put omethinc under his coat nnd then run. H W. Todd, chief clerk at the. freight house, testified that three pairs of shoes were mhslng from a ship ment consigned to L. B, Persky of Ogden. the three empt boxes beln found when the shipment was un loaded. The defendant then took the stand He said that he had been drinking quite steadily during the past two weeks and that he met two men that I morning, while under the Influence of liquor He went to the freight yards with them, intending to catch a train. A few minutes after they .irri d at the yards, he told them of his Intention and started to go down toward the north end of the yard One of the men told him that he was not coins out of town and that he had Bttei not move at all or he would "blow his head off. ' The threat frightened him and he stood still, while one of the men broke into the shipment of shoes and took out two pnirs and the other man took one pair. The man who took the two pairs, he said, handed one pair to him and made him carry it Tin v then took him up town and one of the men sold a pair of the shoes In a restaurant and hid one pair behind the meat market. On cross examination by Attorney D. S Cook, he said that after leaving the freight yards, they First hid tin1 shoes in an old house aud then wn' up to the Oak saloon. They stayed there for about 15 minutes Then they went back, got the shoes and disposed of them. When asked why he did not inform anyone that he was being forced into committing a crime, he said that he was afraid to do so. but he could not remember having seen the gun with which he thought he had been threatened. In .-ummint; up the evidence, the judge explained that possession of stolen sto-len property, unless the manner in v. hull it is received is properly explained, ex-plained, is evidence of guilt Ik-then Ik-then pronounced a verdict of guilt and sentenced the defendant to serve 50 days in the city Jail. Dave Lillis. a drunk, received a 15-d&y 15-d&y sentence. He was. arrested a couple of days ago by Patrolman Blackburn at Twenty-fifth street and Lincoln avenue, and his case involved disturbance of the peace John Bfal-lon, Bfal-lon, an old offender, received a five-day five-day sentence on conviction for drunkenness. drunk-enness. Ed Ware, a drunk, was given a one-day one-day sentence and Jack Dedami forfeited for-feited $5 bail. |
