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Show YOUNG MAN REFUSES TOTELL A clear case of intimidation was before be-fore the judge of the municipal court thib morning and the young victim v.us released and told to go back to bis work. According to the testimony, Charles Jones, a young man of only 19 years, cme to tho police station a few days ago and advised Detective Pender that he had been held up aud robbed of J14. He gave a good descri-ptlon ot the man he suspected, and the ot-lieers ot-lieers went to work on the case. They told the young fellow that he would bo needed as a witness, and for him to remain where be could be called. The man alleged by the boy to have bfld him up. was located, and, to make certain of Jones as a witness he was taken in charge by the officers offi-cers and placed In Jail. Yeuterday morning, when the tlmo I came for the filing of the complaint against tho party suspleloned of hav- I lug committed the robbery, Jones was again questioned regarding the matter mat-ter and he stated that he could not rrcognlze the nian who had robbed him, and thnt he really could not say positively whether he had been robbed, rob-bed, or that he had lost any money. I!y this time the officers were completely com-pletely nonplussed, the would -be robber rob-ber was releahed and the young man charged with vacrancy. Detective Pender told the story of tbe ca,se to tbe court and explained that he thought the boy had been frightened In some way against telling Lie court the story of the holdup. Jones was placed on the witness stand and told to glvo bis version of tho affair, and explain why be had told the officers that be had been robbed rob-bed and then had refused to tell the truth. The defendant stated that be came down from Idaho a few days ago, paid his faro on the train and bad forty cents when he reached Og den. He said he was a teamster and could get work at any time and that be would like to go back to Idaho and lesurne work. When the court asked Mm why he told the officers be h.l been ri-bbed of $14, and bad theu denied de-nied that h hod lost any money, he s..ld that be had been 'Vuiuped" by parties In the Jail, who Informed him It would be much better for him to let the matter drop. He said they told him that it might not be very f fKj.l for him if he trtlfie,t against ibo fellow, and be came to the conclusion that If the court would let hltn return to his job In Idaho he would let th-matter th-matter drop, to he told tbe officers that he did not remember whether he bad bt any money and. If h did he could not tell who the nm was that robbed him. The court 'old tbe joung man th?t he would be released from the vagrancy vag-rancy charge with the understanding that he hurry back to his job In Ida-bo Ida-bo and remain there until he could take care of himself among the ehar.t men ol the world. Tbe young nin.T lost n- time in getting away from tbe station. The officers are of the opinion that the boy wos robbed of his money but that of the prisoners got boM of him in jail and made him hei).o something awful would happen to him. it hA iratiatfcl la squeal e." |