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Show SHUT HIS EKES WHEN THREE MEN JUMPED OK HIS ANATOMY The culmination of the case of the Clt VS. John W Hurd. In the municipal munici-pal court this morning, was somewhat similar to the story of the boy who first ate a piece of pie and then asked his mother if he could have it. Hurd has been held in jail since December De-cember 28, awaiting the filing of either a felony or a misdemeanor charge against him This morning a charge of disturbing the peace was placed, the defendant pleaded guilty and the judge decided that the time Hurd had already served was suffl cient punishment and he was k1cu his liberty. Hurd was arrested on December 28 I by Detectives Thomas Burk and H. C. j Peterson following a cutting affray, I In which G H. Crowder, another ne- gro received wounds which necessitated necessi-tated his being removed to the Dee hospital and for which Hurd was alleged al-leged to have been responsible. He was then held to await the outcome of Crowder's injuries. Since that time, according to the officers, Crowder recovered from his injuries aud, with other witnesses for the prosecution, left the state. Before leaving, however, they admitted admit-ted to Hurd"s mother that Crowder was responsible for the trouble that had occurred. It w-as then decided to charge Hurd only with disturbing the peace by engaging in a fight. He pleaded guilty to the charge and, when asked to tell his story, said: "All I know Is that three men Jumped on me and I shut my eyes and did the best I could " Don Hogan and Thomas Murphy, who have been held at the Jail foi several days on suspicion of having stolen some topper wire from the Og-den Og-den Junk House, were arraigned on charges of vagrancy. They pleaded not guilty and their trials were set for tomorrow morning. Mike O'Brien and C. L. Kirk, whose cases were taken under advisement yesterday, were each given the alternative alter-native of paying a $10 fine or serving ten days in Jail. O'Brien was found to have lost his chance of getting tho Job he had been promised, by getting drunk and it was learned that Kirk abused a pedestrian who refused his demands for money. A |
