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Show JOSEPH AND ANNA IN CClKiT THEY ANSWER TO THE CHARGE OF FORGERY. Cirl Supposed to Have Been Led Into Crime by Her Companion They Are Bound Over. The police court docket was a mixed mix-ed one today, the cases ranging from a piaiu drunk, to a woman accused of forgery, and with vaRrancy, peace disturbance, dis-turbance, abusive language, burglary anO mendicancy mixed In. Joseph M. Dye and Anna M. Carlson Carl-son were formally arraigned on tho charge of forgery, It being claimed that they attempted to pass a worthless check on George W. Driver. Tho check for $12 was made payable at the Pingree National bank to Miss Sel-ina Sel-ina Bloomqu;st and was signed by "li. li. Wilson " The defendants were bound over to the cuatody of the sheriff, ball being fixed at $500 each. It Is understood that they will plead not guilty at their preliminary trial. Dye is known to the police as the "would-be officer," having come here some time ago from Nevada, and represented to the chief oi police that ho was an officer In Nevada and wanted to wear a star while here and assist the polico in cleaning the ' city of its wickedness. The fellow's companion is a respectable-looking girl, evidently forced upon up-on her own resources in the world and who, In nor battle for a livelihood, has fallen in with evil associates and has been finally Involved in a serious transaction. J. J. Downs was charged with drunkenness drunk-enness and pleaded guilty, receiving a line of $5 or Ave days. A. O. Newman, arrested on the charge of using abusive language to a Mrs. Carlson, pleaded guilty and was flnod $5 or Ave days. John Kalamazoo pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy and was given a ten-day sentence on the rock pile. Frank Moore, the beggar arrested by Ofhcor Burk Friday, pleaded guilty to mendicancy. The court thought the city better rid of him and suspended a 90-day sentence, with orders to leave at once. T. W. Riley who pleaded not guilty to drunkenness in Friday's court, had his case continued. |