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Show EMIL ROBERTS SENT TO JAIL Striking Machinist Gets 30 Days When Convicted in City Court Guilty as charged was the verdict of the jury yesterday afternoon in the city court In tho case or tho cliy against Emll Roberts, striking ma Chinist. charged with uslnjf abusive language to '.). H. Woods, i.'363 Adams Ad-ams avenue, an employe at the Southern South-ern Pacific railroad shops and with threatening him. He was sentenced to I servo 30 flays In jail A stay of exei u-tlon u-tlon of five days was granted. The Jury' vvas composed ( ECelley Goddard: I,. L Hoover Georgi Noble and Russell Tanner In the verdict tho jury recommended leniency and in passing sentence, City Judge D k Roberts said that the court has staled stal-ed heretofore that Jail sentences would be the penalty In caxes where men were found guilty In such violations of the lay He Btat d thai bul for the recommendation oi the jury he would h i e .-.lit , ii i. defends ni to 11 das In jail. llcsides Wood, there appeared for the prosecution, David J. Crampton, 0 machinist s helper employed in the shops, and James Wallace Eucky. traveling auditor for the Western Weighing and Inspection bureau .n Of whom testified that while Wood was on a north-bound street car. at the Intersection of Wall avenue and l wenty-fifth street on the morning of August 11 at 7.50 o'clock, a crowd gathered around the car and that Roberts culled Wood vile names and t h reatened him wll b a club For the defense Albert J. Helm. 2C30 Adams avenue; N Butler, -133 Gross street and W. R, Alwav. 9C Twi nty-second street, testified that they were In the crowd that gathered and that they had not heard Roberts call any vile names nor threaten Wood anil instead of having a club in his hands he was carrying a pasteboard box. They admitted that names were called Wood hv members of the crowd and that he had been threatened The case of the city against Roberts, Rob-erts, charged with the same offense by W 1'ert Her He If, was continued for setting on September 12. A jur trial was also demandi 'l MINERS BACK IN HARD COAL PITS Wage Agreement Signed and 155,000 Workers Return to Tasks WILKESBAftRE, Pa., Sept 9 The anthracite wage agreement Bending the miners back to work at once after more than five monthH of idleness, was ratified by the tri distrlcl vonven-tlon vonven-tlon ot (he hard coal dlgRora tonight I nder the agreement. ",0() mine, workers returned to work at the pate of wages they received they Ihey sus pended mining on March u The new contract will be m effect until August Au-gust 31, next year, when a new arrangement ar-rangement Is to be negotiated "Jn the light' of a report to be made by a commission which both sides recommend recom-mend be created bv congress t m vestigate every phase of the anthracite anthra-cite Industry nn |