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Show COLORED WOMAIil II NO FEAR OF II BUTCHER KNIFE I mke and Ella Gains, colored, were' und guilty of disturbing the peace ihi morning In the municipal court and were fined each The couple live on lower Twenty-fifth street and I Duke was arrested by Patrolman r rr) Kelliher several nights ago According Ac-cording to the testimony, the officer heard a disturbance In the room occupied oc-cupied by the defendants He went In the house and was let into the 1 KOin by the landlady. As he entered.! be s.n Gaina standing over bis wifej with a butcher knife in his uplifted hand The negro's hand was bleed-j ing. and the officer was given to un-deratand un-deratand that ihe woman had been I it on the arm. A lurther in vestisation of the affair af-fair revealed the fact that Mrs. Gams i aa as much to blame for the die turbance aa her huaband and she was a bo brought into court Duke testified that his wife was all lo blame and the CUt he received was caused by her pulling the knife through bis fingers. His action toward to-ward her. he said, was only iu .?elf defense. i In testimony given by Mrs Gains ill nee that she was the head Ol the house. There's no chance in the world of that man hurtln' me," she .'-aid "He wouldn't be here if he cut me. We was just foolin.' that's all'' Sin denied having been cut and bailed up the denial by baring her ;.rms. The only sign of a cut was a fear which, she slated, was from a cut she received while working in a susnrcane field In Tennessee. James ( lark, a transient, was given ;r alternative sentence of $lo or if days, after pleading guilty to 1 ; ( barge Of petit larceny. He was arrested ar-rested yesterday by Detective Rober' i banibera at the Denver Second hand store, while trying to sell two pairs of shoes he had stolen from the Modern Mod-ern Clothing store. His onlv defense vas that he was drunk and didn't 1 now wha' he was doing. Herbert Nichols was given a sus-fruded sus-fruded sentence on a charge of drunk-ennesa drunk-ennesa and Herman Lee, whose case was taken under advisement yesterday, yester-day, was given a five-day sentence The disturbance of the peace case j.gain6t Joe Bellano and Kmanuel Han ; bi n was dismissed They were al-I al-I leged to have been fighting. Bert i Mitchell and Jack Street, who were arraigned yesterday on the charge of battery, had their, hearing set for December 24 Charles Sheedy was arraigned on the charge of isinns fraudulent (hecks and through his attorney. W YV Harcombe, entered a plea of not guilt The complaint alleges that he passed a worthless check for $16.50 en John Smalley. No date was sit ' for the preliminary hearing. |