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Show FIGHT IN A DANCE PRODUCES TWO VERY BLACK EYES Six misdemenor and an affront to the court, occupied the morning In municipal court. Victor Wetson. John Vander etter and Tom Fay drunks, received suspended sus-pended sentences. All three were arrested ar-rested yesterday afternoon. E. Schultz, charged with cruelty to I animals plead not guilty, was convicted con-victed and fined $10. Schultz was arrested at 11:30 a. m yesterday by Patrolman Hearn for leaving a horse on the street without properly protection from the weather. He had as witnesses H. W. Gates and Charles Yeaman. The city's witnesses witness-es were Phillip H- Kumber and Patrolman Pa-trolman James Hearn. Kunder is the proprietor of a confectionery store on lower Twenty-fifth Btreet. He was the first witness called and he said that the horse had stood in front of hi6 business place from 7:30 to 11 a. m., that it was blanketed, but that the blanket was wet through and the animal ani-mal was shivering with the cold. Pa-' trolman Hearn said that his attention atten-tion had been called to the animal and that he had taken if to a livery stable and had then arrested the driver. The defendant based his case on the fact that the animal was blanketed blanket-ed and his two witnesses testified along that line The Judge read the law relating to such cases and then rendered his decision. William Furnlss and Willard Jess, charged with disturbing the peace, were next called The two were arrested ar-rested early Wednesday morning. Jess I appeared in that day's session of i court and pleaded guilty, but Furnlss was unable to appear and the case was set for today. Furnlss pleaded guilty this morning. The two men I had been fighting and both were still in bad condition, each having a very black eye and other bruises on the face. Furniss was first permitted to tell his story. He said that the trouble started at a dance Tuesday night. Some one had hit him in the eye as he was passing down the lobby of the dance hall. He went Into the dressing dress-ing room a minute or two later and, thinking that Jess vas his assailant, retaliated by hitting him in the eye They were separated and shortly afterward aft-erward he was told to leave the hall. This he did but In the meantime he had been told that Jess was not the one who bad hit him and he decided to look him up and beg his pardon He went dwn Twenty-fifth street with a friend and the two met Jess and some of his friends. Jess hit him In the mouth and from then on there was "something doing." According to the story of Jess. Furniss Fur-niss w'as the agressor both times. Irving Irv-ing Emmett, who informed the officers offi-cers of the trouble, said that he had seen the men flghtin?, that it was, in fact, a general mixup when he arrived on the scene. He had separated separ-ated them three times and was then held by persons in the crowd who wanted to see the ficht finished He had finally gotten away and telephoned tele-phoned for the police He said that m each time he separated the two men, that Jess followed his opponent, and renewed the combat. Attorney Gordon, appeared In court on behalf of Jess and interrupted the trial several times, while others had the floor. When Judge Reeder finished fin-ished his summing up uf the case, he was asked by the attorney if he desired de-sired to say anything. The reply was taken by the court to mean that Gordon thought his remarks would not be given proper consideration. The Judge took exception to this and informed the attorney that his action verged close on to contempt of court, and he advised him in the future to be more careful. The judge then said that In his opinion, the punishment that, the two defendants had given each other was sufficient to satisfy the ends of jus tice, but warned them not to be mixed up in any more affairs of the kind He suspended the sentence on Jess and gave Furnlss a six months' sus pended sentence Nellie St. Clair, a vagrant, forfeited $G0 ball. |