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Show POVERTY LEADS MAN TO STEAL J WHEEL TO RIDE HOME I 3 James Monahan was given an alter-I alter-I native sentence of a $20 fine or twenty days In jail, by the municipal court Judge this morning He was arrested yesterday at the Union depot for creating a disturbance. Depot Master John Shields was the prosecuting prose-cuting witness ajid testified that the defendant used vile language in the presence of a woman, while being ousted from the depot after being asked to leave. In passing sentence, the judge made clear to the defendant defend-ant that the depot was constructed' for the use of patrons of the railroad companies and not as a loafing place. H. W. Frlck was sentenced to pay a fine of $5 or to serve five days in i jail He was arrested yesterday evening eve-ning by Chief Norton and Officer Nelson, on Twenty-fourth street, be- tween Grant and Lincoln avenues, and charged with drunkenness He pleaded plead-ed guilty to the charge. In the case of the City vs. H F Young, a 23-year-old youth, the testimony testi-mony of the defendant brought out a series of unusual circumstaro?? which led to his committing the crime for which he was arrested The young man was brought from Salt Ike City last night by Chief W. I. Norton and charged with the theft of a Columbia bicycle valued at $2'. the property of S J. Griffin Young pleaded guilty to the petit larceny charge against him and wept while teliiiijr his story. He said that he lived in Salt Lake City with his widowed mother and ran out of work several weeks ago. He came to 0-den 0-den last week and looked for -work here without success. Monday evening eve-ning he ran out of funds, not having even enough to carry him to his lyme in Salt Lake City. In desperatlonho stole Mr. Griffin's bicycle from In from of the Episcopal church and rode it to Salt Lake City. Shortly-after Shortly-after he entered the capital he was arrested and held for tin Ogden of-ficers. of-ficers. The .nidge took the case under un-der advisement. The case of the City vs Claudie Louis was called and continued until January 13, at the request of W W. Harcombe, attorney for the defendant |
