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Show TRANSIENT HAS NIGHTOf GRIEF! Chased Over Train, Charged With Attempted Robbery; Fined $20 Charged with carrying a onneenlod weapon, G. Kershul, 36 years of age, of Pittsburg. Pa., arrested last nlghl by the sheriff's department and lodged In the county Jail, was found guilty In the city court this morning and sentenced sen-tenced tu pay a tine of J2u or servo -'ii d;iys In jail. The complaining witness, Mott H Kennoll, speilal agent of the L'nlon Pacific railroad company, told the court that when h took the gun from Kershul it was unloaded and that ne had no shells on his person Korshull told the court that he was! carrying the gun for the purpose of' si lling It to a section foreman at 1 Ulntan. He denied pointing It at anyone and ! said that when he was thrown off the train it fell out of his pocket nnd that he picked It up and got back on the train. Kershul Is alleged to have con- I fronted a railroad brakeinan with a I revolver in an attempt to rob him. j T. W. Moore, a brakeman on a L'n- ! I ion Pacific freight train. Is said to! i have seen tho man board hid east- I j bound train here lat niht when it: left Ugden. While, the train was in i I transit between igden and 1 lntah. ! the brakeman said he attempted to j put Kershul off, but the man evaded I him and bid in a car At L'lntah, when th- train stopped, the brakeman said that Kershul came . forward toward Dim n rul thrust re-! v. .her In his side, demanding money. .Moore Is said to have quickly slipped , out of range. Moors then sent a tslsjrram to Spi c lal Agent Kcnnell of the L'nlon Pa- ciflc system In Qgden who caught a passenger train and passed the freiKh! ' before It reached Gateway. When the freight arrived Kershul Is alleged to j have slipped off. He was followed by : the officer who told Sheriff Klchard Pincock he was attempting to break J into a section house when he was arrested. L |