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Show YOUNG MAN IS FINED $100 In (ho municipal court this morning. morn-ing. O. W. Dalton, a big strapping young man .capable of making a good living at hard labor at any time and In any country, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle belonging to N. C. Peterson, of the alue of $20. Tho offense Is alleged to have been com mltted June 27th.- In passing sentence, the court stated stat-ed that he could not understand why a man of so fine a physique should get Into petty stealing, and the court was at a loss to kuow Just what punishment to give in such a case, but the sentence finally given was that the defendant pay a fine of $100 or servo one hundred days In the city Jail, at hard labor. "Haven't you anything to say about this matter," said the judge to Dal-toD. Dal-toD. "Is there no explanation why a big. fine looking man as yourself commits an otfense of this sort? I wish ou would explain yourself to the court." "1 have nothirl; to say. Judge," 6a Id the defendant, 'except that I was drunk." "We have positive evidence that he was not drunk, your honor," interposed inter-posed Cit Attorney Devlno, "and we Insist that this man be given a severe sentence. Petty stealing In the city must be stopped In some way and wo feel that your honor can do much toward to-ward checking it in tho pronouncing of heavy penalties Bicycle stealing Is altogether too frequent In the city and It has become a menace to the better Interests here. There are a class of fellows In this town, and the defendant Is one of them, that thinks nothing of taking a man's wheel from the curb and doing with it as ho pleases pleas-es The officers are bothered with these offenders and they would llko to see this man get a heavy sentence." sen-tence." The extreme penalty Tor petit larceny lar-ceny is $300 or three hundred days' confinement In Jail, but the court stated stat-ed when the sentence of $100 was pronounced that he hardly felt It necessary nec-essary to give the maximum sentence. |