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Show THE MIL fl GASES HURT Basil Demos to Be Placed on Trial Tomorrow: Others $ Up Later IflQI Three criminal cases arc scheduled rl r,- hearing in Judge a W. AgexVa di- x Islon of t he du trici i our) thia ei k b 1 01 1 H The first case, that of Hustl Demos, H Charged with obtaining money under H raise pretenses, will open tomorrow H tlx ! IllliFT lit 10 O'clock. in the H plaint Demos Is charged with having H sold stock ami fixtures of a store at I"" representations, Ho is alleged to hao told Charles s Wheelwright, the purchaser, pur-chaser, that the .-rtlclr: were tree from all debt, when Intel It was discovered dis-covered that $700 was still owed on them, riomo.i sold the store November Novem-ber 8, ii9, ior jisoo. the cspmplainl . hon i 1)1 Mov DISAPPJ nemos then disappeared nom Ogden nnd is alleged to have left many debts In his wnkc. He was not captured until three months ago in East si. Louis, Mo. A letter found in the aiore after J )i-mos 1 1 a I ii i . pi - 1 1 . ii 1m s; i Id t hu been responsible for his capture The letter was written by the man s sweetheart sweet-heart in K.ist St. Louis, and Officers hers immediately notified the Bt. Louis authorities to watch for him. Demos did not appear In the eastern city until a few months a;.o. when apparently ap-parently he believed that the hunt for Mm had been abandoned, officers, however, arrested him In the Kirl"s house, it is said. Demos was immediately brought here and plead not guilty to the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He Is now at liberty under bonds of $2000. With the Demos case completed, the trial of Oscar Lopez charged with burglary m the second degree will be heard. Lopez, in the complaint. Is charged with having burglarized the shop of David Henderson, Vl'l Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street on tin- ni e of August 1 1. DAXCE U M l ISE. The third case ol the week la that of Steve Gray, charged with unlaw- fully conducting a dance hull In violation viola-tion of a dance ordinance passed by the board of city commissioners Ma) ll. 1920 Gray la alleged to have i on-ducted on-ducted a duncehall in the basement of Hie Marlon hotel without a license. H. was found guilty ot the charge before a Jury in the municipal court October I, and appealed the case. The trial of Gray will mark the first case to bp tried for violation ol the new ordinance and it is being watched with interest m the nature of u test of the new la a oo |