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Show MANY DRUNKS BEFORE JUDGE DEEDED III POLICE COURT I. tbe police court this morning. Martin Moran, appeared for the third :lme within the past few weeks, be-lore be-lore Judge Keeder, on a charge of drunkenness. He pleaded hard to be given another chance to brace up j and the Jjdge decided to give It to him, slating, however, that if he i didn't make good, he would get a tone sentence. T rry Poster, after serving a five-dsj five-dsj sentence about three weeks ago. managed to keep sober until yester-..a yester-..a Th' ii he got Intoxicated and vent to sleep in Gomer Nicholas' ' barn. He wSi arrested by Patrolman Patrol-man Swanson about 10:30 lat night and this time he had his former sen-frier sen-frier trebled. 1 rank Fair. drunk said that he had received his wages, $38 yesterday yester-day at 6 P- m , after having been dls- j charged by his employer He paid 110 for his board and when the of-flesra of-flesra atTested him at 7 o'clock lie i had $10 left The Judge asked him why he had lost his Job and he i Bald, "J got canned for being late." Juc.ue Reeder then told him that a man who would lose hi Job and then spend his money for liquor ought to be tried for bis sanity Instead of drunkenDess. Fair said that he wanted want-ed to go to Salt Lake City as he thought he could get work there and thi Judge told him to get a bath and go. The case of John f'assidle and Albert Al-bert Harris became one through somewhat novel circumstances. Cas-1 d Ho is 14 year old and was charg I id with vagrancy. Harris Is only a youth and was charged with beg-1 gin Oassldle told his story first and said that he had lived In Utah for ovfT 20 years ami had. for some length of time previous to October, been working for the Utah Construe tlon company About two months ago he had been laid off and that since then he had been a sufferr from bronchial troubles Yesterday his money ran out and he had a-sked Harris for a d'me to get something to eat. Harris" case was then called and he said that Cassldle had aked him for a dime but that he didn't have the change. He suid that ho had two dollars and a five cent piece In his pocket and that he went into a store to get on of the dollars cbang ed. The storekeeper could not make the change and he asked a passer-by llor a dime to give to the old man. Both of them were arrested soon af ierward. ..fter considering the stories of i both men. Judge Reeder let Harris RO with a sunpended sentence and c rd red that Cassldlo be given med-cal med-cal attention by th proper authorl tie6 and released as soon as he was able to take care of hlmslf Charles J McNulty. a cripple, was charged with begging and pleaded not guilty The case was tried and Officers Swanson and Mohlman tes- 1 lifted that McNulty had been begging srh k under the Influence of liquor. Afir hearing the testimony of tho l fl C rs. McNulty took the stand and j -.aid that he guessed that he had been drunk and had also "received assistance" from several people. 1 here were no extra bad clrcnm stances connected with the arrest and tbe Judge allowed McNulty to go under a 60-day suspended sentence The cases of Pedro Orgene. charg . with burglary and Sam Green charged with Intent to commit murder, mur-der, were continued. |