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Show MAUDE ELLIS IS FINED $J SHE WAS ARRAIGNED ON CHARGE OF VAGRANCY. j Her Colored Paramour-Pleads "Not Guilty" and Is Held on Bonds to the Amount of $100. A colored man and his alleged mistress mis-tress occupied most of the morning session of police courL Fred C. On-sley On-sley was the name given and the defendant de-fendant was charged with vagrancy He pleaded not guilty and the arresting officers were called upon for their testimony. tes-timony. Captain Brown stated that Detective Detec-tive Pender and himself hod discovered discov-ered the couple In a room In tho rear of a Twenty-fifth street establishment and had arrested them on charges ol vagrancy. The defendant, stated that ho was formerly a barber '(n this cky, but had beon in the Pullman service for 14 years. He said he had met tho woman wo-man In WellB, Nevada, and that he was not living with her in this city, as charged by the officers. He denied that he as supporting the woman, or that tho woman was supporting him. r As the man had ,$25 In his possession posses-sion when arrested, and the evidence was hardly sufficient to convict, the court ordered that additional witnesses wit-nesses be brought in and that the case be continued until the afternoon session ses-sion of court, the prisoner to be held under bonds to tho amount of $100 Maude Ellis, the "woman in the case," was then arraigned on the charge of vagrancy. Evidently unfamiliar un-familiar with the local method of hanullng such cases, tho defendant was "on hand" and entered a plea or not guilty. The officers then stated that the woman was worldly and occupied oc-cupied one of the places in the Alley. The defendant, who is remarkably light for a colored woman,. and In ract, according to the officers' testimony, had successfully passed herself off as a white person in one of tho establishments, estab-lishments, was called to the stand and delivered a lengthy discourse as to her Inability to pay her monthly fine as well as hor rent to "Queen Belle," until un-til Interrupted by the Judge who informed in-formed her that the municipal court was not interested In these affairs to any particular extent. A fine of $1'J was then imposed and she was allowed allow-ed to go hor way. O. J. Rowe was charged with drunkenness. drunk-enness. He pleaded guilty and was given the customary fine of $5 or five days. Thomas Kennedy was arraigned on the charge of disturbing the peace by loud and tumultuous talking, etc. The defendant had deposited bail for his appearance and the same was about to be declared forfeited, when he suddenly sud-denly put in an appearance and pleaded plead-ed not guilty of the offense. The ar- J resting officer not being present, tho j case was ordered coutlnuod until tho afternoon session at 3 o'clock. j |