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Show JUSTICE SPEEDED UP HB FARMER Arraigned In municipal court, remanded re-manded to the district court, tried and sentenced, was the record yesterday in the desertion case of Vern F. Williams Wil-liams Anxious to get back to his crops in Idaho, ho waived the preliminary prelim-inary hearing in the city court. He was taken before Judge A. E. Pratt in district court, where he pleaded guilty to the charge of failure to provide for a minor child. He agreed to waive time for a hearing and also tho right to counsel, if the court would only hurry the case. An order was made by the court' that he pay the amount of $15 per1 month for the support of the child, the money to be paid to the county treasurer treas-urer on the first of each month,-and a bond given for good faith. The defendant paid $180, a year's advance ad-vance payment, and was allowed his freedom. The case had been called at 5:10 and was over In less than, thirty minutes, the district attorney and the judge agreeing to the lato session that Williams might return to his farm, , where he was badly needed at this tImQof. -the -season. |