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Show WOMEN PAYi FINE TO CITY TREASURY IS ENRICHED BY A LARGE SUM. "Girls" and Gamblers Pour $1,500 Into the City Exchequer Peace of Dancing Hall Disturbed. The police court today was or more financial import than productive or entertaining en-tertaining features. Some thlrty-fivo women forfeited their customary fine-?, which, with tho forfeitures from gam-' gam-' bllng houses last week, aggregated la , the vicinity of 51,500. A check ror ' $330, signed" "Mrs. Dora U. Topham, per M. M W., was noticeable in tho day's receipts. Nick Vegos was arraigned on the charge of disturbing the peace. He pleaded guilty and the court proceeded to lecture him for his conduct. Vegos was bondsman for several or his Greclt friends last week when they became Involved in a fight on lower Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street. After the trial, Vegos passed out of the Jail with them, but had proceeded but a short distance before he became a party to another quarrel In which ho landed' viciously upon his opponent's Jaw. The court Imposed a fine of $15 and told Vegos to behave himself henceforth or it would go hard with nim. L. It. Greist and Dick West were charged with mendicancy. They au- j mlited that they were technically guilty, but desired to address this j court on the matter. The court considered con-sidered that, technically, he did not wish to be addressed and fined them each $15 or a like number of days in Jail. Tim Ronney forfeited $5 for drunkenness, drunk-enness, aad Stanley Blgelow and J. Harrop a like amount each for having disturbed the peace or a local dancing hall Saturday night. |