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Show r looked like a switchman to him and I that, therefore, he had' not hesitated j to ask a trifling bit of assistance from one of his brother workmen. The ' court did not take kindly to the story and imposed a sentence of 10 days on the rock pile. U. Smith, John Conlcy nnd John Glr-bin Glr-bin were arralpnc-d on the charge of vagrancy. Captain Brown stated that i the men had been arrested by Officers j Chambers and Cromptou on Wall avenue, ave-nue, where the residents had complained com-plained that the men were going from house to house begging. The defendants defend-ants entered pleas of not guilty and the case was ordered continued" until the afternoiin session John Dolan, able-bodie seaman, red-haired and possessed of a rough-weather-tack-to-wind'ard not often exhibited ex-hibited in the local, court, arose promptly to "attention" as his name was vlle.l with an"Ay, ay. Sir" that savored much of the foc's'l and Quarter Quar-ter deck. He was charged with drunkenness, drunk-enness, but the allegation was so Indignantly In-dignantly denied that the court ordered order-ed the case continued until the arresting ar-resting officer could be procured. FEW OFFENDERS WERE BEFORE POLICE JUDGE Police court included but a few petty pet-ty cases today, most of which were carried over until the afternoon session ses-sion of court owing to tbe ab&cnce of the arresting officers whose testimony was necessary in the cases where a plea of not guilty was entered. John Doe was the name given by a local resident charged with drunkenness. drunken-ness. The defendant admitted his guilt and was noticably relieved when the fine of $5 or fle days was imposed. im-posed. 1 B. F. Whipps was charged with mendicancy. men-dicancy. He pleaded not guilty in order or-der that he might be permitted to make a statement with his case. Chief l Browning, who arrested the man, stated stat-ed that a gentleman had complained to him about the action of Whipps In approaching him for a contribution, I saying the latter was the seventh beggar who had accosted him between the Union station and Grant avenue. The complainant also stated that he objected to being taken for a switchman switch-man while in reality he was a "farmer from Randolph." Whipps was a6ked to make his statement and replied that the man he had begged from |