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Show HOLE IW HiS POCKET 1 CHS BROOKS I ichigh j "i put fifty cents in my pocket a I short time before I went Into the ffi restaurant, but there was a hole In the pocket and I guess the money IH slipped through," was Uio statement ffl of C E. Brooks, when asked by tho $ municipal court Judge thin morning Jjfl why he had eaten a meal last night at 169 Twenty-fifth street and then IS refused to pay for it. "I certainly J. wouldn't think of going Into a place I to cat without money and I was pret- M ty 'full' too," he added. As his ap- fefi p'earance was fairly prepossessing, the fl story sounded plausible and the judge 1 gave him a ssupended sentence to bo 1 made effective after bo squared his ffl .account with tho restaurant proprie- ffl tor, which, ho promised to do. 8 "Davy" Jones, an old offender, was 1 given a five-day Jail sentence, after I pleading guilty to a charge of drunk- I enncss. John Doo and Henry Learaan, , plain drunks, wcro given suspended 1 sentences. |