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Show JUDGE IS II NARROW ESCAPE FROM II KISS John Lcsslg, a nervous; dynamic sort of citizen, arrested yesterday by Officer Canfield, pleaded guilty to violating vio-lating tho liquor laws, in municipal court this morning, and was given a fine of $50 or thirty days In jail. Losslg afforded about the only dlveraion of. tho morning Besslon. When his case was called, he shot out of tho crowd in the rear of tho court room and headed for Judge Georgo S. Barker's bench. He was temporarily stopped In his wild stampedo by I. N. Fulton, court clerk, but only long enough to plead guilty. Ho had a message for tho court and he was anxious to deliver It. The message consisted largely of the facts that ho had Imbibed too freely In Lara-mlo Lara-mlo and lost his equilibrium; also that ho was never before arrested and that his roputatlon was first class. Peculiarly, though, he imagined that it waB necessary to ."speak hlB piece" Into tho teeth of the court. . For an Instant it looked like tho court, unless ho did some quick dodging, was fated for a kiss. When Lessig finally became calmod ho explained that he was en route to Bingham to visit his brother; that he hailed from Colorado; and had taken numerous nips of bourbon at Laramie. Coming from Colorado, his throat was somewhat parched and the liquor rushed to his head. Fifty or thirty the court thought, would about cover his case. |