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Show LOSES WHEN CASE REOPENED E. Davis Has to Pay $90 After Bail of $25 Had Been Forfeited E Davis, charged with battery of ihn person of .1 C vemon, s -J I Wash- ington avenue, wai found guilty in the city court this morning and sentenced to pay :i fine of $90 or serve 9 0 days in Jail. In passing sentence City .ludge n. It. Koberts said that In his opinion the case presented i he phase i a ruffian attacking a father who was endeavoring to protect his 13-year-old daughter . In passing sentence sen-tence he said that he was Inclined to make the sentence a straight 'jo days In Jail, but would give the defendant a chance to pay the flnn under the cirrumstn nces. According to the testimony of Iver- son on the evening of (tctober 2 1 bis 1 3-year-old daughter was enticed out of the house, to meet Davis at th" Intersection In-tersection of Cross street and Twelfth street and when he went after the child ard remonstrated with Davis the defendant knocked hhn down. With his son. 1.. J Iverson and at companion, iane Ramsden, 473 Ches- ter street, he pursued Davis, who ran along Twelfth .street to Washington avenue where, when they attempted j to stop him he again knocked Iverson down, who. in falling caught him by the legs and threw him, after which I he was arrested. Both young men testified to prac-j tlcallv the same story. Davis testified that he had gone toi the street intersection in question to meet a companion he named as Ieorge Allen to talk oer fitting up a gym-! nislum in the basement of Allen's home. He said he rl I l not know where Allen lived. He admitted meeting thei girl and said he became acquainted With her while he was digging a ditch near her house. He Insisted that: Jvcrson had been drinking and had: attacked him Iverson denied that he had been drinking and asked the court to call Chief of Detectives Robert BUrll and the officers that made the arrest to testify to his condition. This was not done. A feature of the ens.- was thai Davlsj did not appear for trial when his case 1 was called and his ball of was declared forfeited, after which he entered en-tered the court room and demanded 1 that the case be reopened and tried. y |