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Show CITY COLLECTS $31,102 FINES Many Stolen Automobiles and Bicycles Are Recovered Re-covered By Police There was collected during the vear a total of $31,102 in fines and forfeit ures by the City court for miBdemean-. ere, ranging from cruelty to animals ' o carrying concealed weapons, accord ing to the annual report of Chief ot , Pol Ice Jonathon Jones A total of 85 arrests were made on1 felony charges, making a grand total 01 17,'s compared With 1363 arrests during the yenr of 1920, showing an increase of 395 offmses composed of misdemeanors and felonies during the yenr During the ear there were reported 126 automobiles stolen, 829 bicycles, 1 168 thefts of clothing and but two thefts ol groceries out of a total of 1280 thefts reported. Out of the 126 automobiles reported stolen 112 were recoered and 236 ofl the 329 bicycles reported stolen Were ret overed. The report shows an increase ot 520 ! ! tberrs during the year compared to; .those reported during 1920. I uut or a total of 126 accidents mves-tigated mves-tigated by the police department dur Ing the vear, there was one fatality caused bv an automobile colliding with la rider un a bicycle, one due to an i automobile striking a pedestrian, one ; caused by poisonous gas from grain, !four from suicide and one from murder. mur-der. i There wore 45 cases of non-fatal accidents ac-cidents caused by automobiles colliding collid-ing with automobiles, 24 caused by an itomobllos striking pedestrians and 13 paused by automobiles colliding with street cars. There were three assaults by stabbing during the yet r. jj , |