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Show CLERKS IN STORES, FAILING TO WEAR MASKS, II BROUGHT INTO CITY COURT Al FINED Offenses against the health regulations regula-tions took up the time of Judge Roberts Rob-erts this morning in municipal court, and it was necessary for the judge to explain at length that the court was not a place in which the advisability or non-advisability of the wearing of the mask could bo discussed. What-thc What-thc court intends to do throughout the serious days of the epidemic is to back up by all means in Us power the work of the health boards of the city and see that due penalty is exacted from those who wilfully or in negligence disobey tho rules as set forth. Rhoda Williams, a clerk in tho W. H. Wright & Sons department store, was the first offender to appear, and pleaded guilty to the non -wearing of a mask while attending on customers i yesterday. In her statement to the court, Miss Williams pleaded that to , wear the wask at all was for her a real misery as she suffers of asthma. "I. can quit work but I can not wear the mask," she said. The Judge explained that the court had no Intention of seeming to be without human consideration, but the regulations of the city to be at all effective ef-fective must be enforced and he fined the defendant in the sum of $10. Parley T. Wright offered testimony to the fact that the defendant does suffer o an asthmatic condition due to hay fever and that last night he had ordered the defendant to consult a prominent physician of tho cfty who said that "tho wearing of a mask by .Miss Williams must necessarily be a miserable experience." Objects to Law. Mrs. Reynolds, an employee in the Hess Bakery, reluctantly pleaded guilty to a similar offense and informed in-formed the. court that, even in times of epidemic, "rules are framed, to hit those who have to work for 'their living liv-ing the hardest." The-court took time to point out the aim of the health regulation and came to the conclusion that defendant had not wilfully, but carelessly, forgotton the order and that it would be necessary neces-sary for her to pay a fne of $5. Samuel Miller, arrested by Officers Richardson and Nelson pleaded not guilty to not wearing a mask while waiting upon customers, and owing to the fact that tho arresting officers' evidence was far from conclusive, the court dismissed the case. , Henrv Last, of the firm of Lat &. ' s I Thomas, appeared to answer complaint made by Special Officers Steck and Skinner in which ho was charged with allowing clerks in his store to wait on customers Thursday afternoon Without wearing masks. Mr. Last explained that he had done his best, since the regulations wero first published, to see that all his clerks wore obedient, but that it was not always possible to bo aware of the momentary negligence of the clerks. Clerks in the firm's store, who waited on customers without adjusting their masks, were acting contrary to the firm's orders as well as against tho health regulations. Judge Roberts claimed that tho officers of-ficers had made a mistake In bringing Mr. Last into court and that the persons per-sons to be brought should be the actual ac-tual offenders, and ordered tho case dismissed. oo |
