Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-09-30 | Page 7 | Fails to Connect His Place with Sewer and is Fined

FAILS TO COIECT HIS PLACE WITH SEIE8 ID IS FID Bertha Berry, a negress charged with vagrancy, forfeited 25 bail in tho police court this morning. She was arrested early in the week and was alleged to have stolen $50 from Dave Ryckman, The police recovered $48 of this money and the woman was released on deposit of $25 bail. D. G. Flandt, an alleged drunk, forfeited $5. George Hasewell, John McLaughlin, I T. Wilson, William Kirk and A. Burk, plain drunks, were each sentenced to serve five days in jail or to pay a ?5 fine. In the case of the City vs. A. Burgi, the court ordered the defendant to pay a fine of $100 or to serve 100 days in jail. The case was one of a large number now in the hands of the city attorney for prosecution, in which the defendants are charged with falling and neglecting to connect their property, prop-erty, located in the city sower districts, dis-tricts, with the sewer. Burgi pleaded guilty to the charge yesterday after, noon, claiming his financial condition to bo responsible for his non-compliance with the city ordinance. Judge Barker, in passing sentence, stated that, whilo the parties named in all such complaints probably had reasons which, to them, seemed sufficient suffi-cient to justify them in not complying with this section of the city's health laws, when their caseB were brought ! into court, it was the duty of the judge j to try them on their merits and to I give judgment accordingly. nn I