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Show YOUNG MAN FINDS'; HIMSELF IN II TIGHT PUCE Fred Nicholson, tho young man who was arrested yesterday morning at the Union stallon on a charge of drunken - 1 ness and fined $50 in the municipal court by Judge George S. Barker, appealed ap-pealed to the city rommission ' this morning to have the line remitted, although al-though he had plenty of money on his person with which to pay the fine, a cording to the statement of the police department. Tho city commission declined to act in the matter and now the police are holding the young man pendm-; Investigation Inves-tigation into his claim that he i:, only 20 years of age. In court yesterday morning the defendant stated that he was 20 years of age, but his appearance appear-ance indicates several J'cars more than thaL En Route From California. Nicholson stated that he was en-route en-route from California where he spent the winter, to his homo in .Millard I county, this slate, when arrested. He told of having property and an auto-mohile auto-mohile in storage in a garage, evidently evident-ly believing that his inventory of wealth would assist the court In finding find-ing a measure of punishment that would leave out the fine. If he had such a notion, he was disappointed when the judge suddenly cut him off and imposed the fine with the alternative alterna-tive of 30 days In the jail. The young man did not pay the fine, but retained counsel and appealed tn the city commission this morning to be excused from paying the fine or serv- I ing the sentence. Barker Denies Plesa. The city commission agreed with the attorney for the prisoner that if Judge . Parker would recommend leniency it, would take some action Judge Barker notified the commission that he could I not recommend any leniency in the case, as it was a flagrant violation of the prohibition law and one of the kind of cases he had announced only the day before would be dealt with severely, se-verely, although he had imposed only the minimum sentence. Assistant City Attorney David L. Stine also added his belief that the defendant de-fendant was not entitled to consideration. considera-tion. The young man then decided to part with some of the money he had on his person when arrested and offered of-fered to pay the fine. The police department de-partment had decided not to turn htm loose until an investigation could be made as to his standing in respect to the draft. |