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Show HEAVY SENTENCE TOR MAN ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT The municipal court judge handed out one of the severest sentences this morning that has been recorded on the books in some length of time. The recipient was John Barker, who charged with disturbing the peace, pleaded guilty and said that he had accosted a woman on lower Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street thinking that he knew her, but had said nothing "out of the way" to her. Other evidence introduced, intro-duced, however, was to the effect that the woman had been grossly in- anltnri In commenting on the case,- the judge said that he was determined, If long jail sentences could do it, to see that women would be safe from insult on the streets of the city. This was given as a warning to those who are said to have been acting In an offensive manner toward female pedestrians ped-estrians on lower Twenty-fifth street and especially on Lincoln avenue, between be-tween Twenty -fourth and Twenty-sixth Twenty-sixth streets. Barker was given four months. John Wosten, an Austrian, pleaded not guilty to a charge of trespass His plea was entered through an interpreter in-terpreter and the case was set for tomorrow morning Ray Craig was charged with va-erancv va-erancv and nleaded nor Qnilltv He was arrested several days ago and the complaint alleges that he refuses to work for a livelihood, even when an opportunity is given him. Bail was set at $100. |