Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-10 | Page 6 | Ten Dollars is the Price Paid for Swearing

TEN DOLLARS IS THE PRICE PAID FOR SMI J. W. Brown was fined $5 this morning morn-ing in the municipal court for riding a motorcycle on tho sidewalk. He was taken In yesterday by Officer William Reast near the west end of the Twenty fourth street viaduct. He pleaded guilty to the charge, but stated sta-ted aa an extenuating circumstance that the dividing lines between the eldewalk and road were not very clearly clear-ly defined and that the road was badly bad-ly cut up and frozen. In passing sentence, the Judge Btatod that he had found the "first chance" policy to be detrimental to the enforcement of thetraflo ordinance, bat in view of-theQjgcoggtanoeBln the case, he I 1 would asses9 only the minimum fine. John Faulkner was given an alternative alter-native sentence of a ?10 fine or 10 days in Jail for disturbing tho peace by swearing on the street John Dow forfeited $10 ball. He was arrested yesterday for refusing to pay hi6 fare on a Washington avenue ave-nue street car. In the case of the City vs. Alfred Wheeler and Carl Scott, the testimony in which was taken yesterday, Wheeler Wheel-er was sentenced to serve five months in jail and Scott six months. Wheeler is a Mexican and Scott a negro. They pleaded guilty to petit larceny char ges, but Wheeler was given the shorter short-er sentence on account of having been truthful to the officers.