Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-28 | Page 7 | Helpless Drunks in a Free Ride to City Jail

HELPLESS DRUNKS 1 II FREE RIDE IB HIT! JAIL In answer to an excited telephone call from a matron residing on Lincoln Lin-coln avenue, near Twenty-third street, this morning, Chauffeur Guy Nelson and Detective Bob Burk boarded the auto patrol and about three minutes later took on Tom Murray as a passenger. pas-senger. Murray v. as afflicted with ! liquor and had been wandering In and out among the houses near the one from which the call was sent to the station He came to grief while trying to make a short cut by climbing climb-ing over a fence, but the upward climb was all he managed to negotiate nego-tiate with success. He fell the other half of the distance and was lying helpless on the ground when the officers of-ficers arrived. He was booked on a drunk charge about 10:45 o'clock. A few minutes later another man was found In the same condition by Officers Layne and Brown, near the rurb on Wall avenue, between Twen 1y fourth and Twenty fifth streets. Ho couldn't even give his name and was booked by Desk Sergeant- Walter Wilson as "Sleepy Willie."