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Show BAD REPUTATION HELPED TO CONVICT A MAN The police, court docket included a mixed aggregation of offenders today, to-day, petit larceny discs predominating, predominat-ing, H. L. Head was charged with leaving leav-ing his team unhitched.- Ho entered a plea of guilty and received the customary cus-tomary fine of $5 for his negligence. Sam Hendrlck3on was arraigned on tho charge of petit larceny, having stolen. It was claimed, a pair or rur driving glovosf from the Central hotel. He pleaded not. guilty and witnesses were called. J. A. Yager, who lost the gloves, testified that ho had placed plac-ed the gloves In a drawer behind tho desk at tho, hotel and. after returning for them," they were missing. He dirt not see Hendrlckson nor know thAt he had taken them. F. M. VVoatherholt, porter at tho Central hotel, testified that he hid observed Hendrlckson, who had roomed room-ed at tho house, go to a drawer behind be-hind the desk and take out a pair of fur gloves. He supposed that tho gloves belonged to the roan as the latter stated that ho Intended going out to shovel a Uttlo snow. Upon the entrance of another person Into the room, the witness noticed Hendrlckson Hendrlck-son quickly conceal the. gloves, which aroused his suspicions, and induced him to make Inquiries of tho cook. Upon his return, Hendrlckson was not to bo found. Tho court asked the defendant about the matter, but drew littlo moro from him except a denial of the whole matter, tie admitted being the barber bar-ber who helped himself to a bed and room In the Woodmansee block some time ago, for which ho served time In the city Jail. The court was not Impressed with the defendant's story and imposed a line of 10 or ten days on the rook' pile. William King wag arraigned on the charge of vagrancy, to which he pleaded plead-ed guilty. Detective Pender Informed Inform-ed the court that King was an honest hon-est hard-working man who occasionally occasion-ally camo Into town and strayed Into trouble over the "booze route." "The court was leniently disposed toward the delinquent and suspended a yo-day yo-day sentence, telling him to go back to his Job and "cut out the Gay White Way." |