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Show INNOCENT MEN ARE ARRESTED Railroad Officers Mistake Laboring Men For Tramps and Convey Them to Jail One of the Incarcerated Had $17 and Had Paid His Way Into Ogden. Before Judge Murphy of the municipal munici-pal court this morning, there was a large delegation or men looking for work. Employes of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific Railway company found the men in the depot yards last evening, and. during the day, the special officers arrested ar-rested them, preferred charges of vagrancy vag-rancy and appeared this morning to testify. After the railroad employes had said their say and the boys of the road had told their stories, the court ordered that the men be released, releas-ed, It being determined that the men are not trumps, nor trespassers. Seventeen of these men were arraigned ar-raigned and not one of them had the appearance of being a tramp, a vag. a beggar or a thief, and the stories they told indicated that they were laboring men out of employment, endeavoring en-deavoring to get into some locality where they could find work. Among them were loilerraakers, machinists, carpenters, cooks, waiters, laborers and teamster. "Most of them had been to Reno. ?Jevada; some lived there, and had spent a little money on the fight Their story In the losing los-ing of their money was the story of Jeffries, the big calf, being defeated by the colored man. The men were all willing to work, and some of them were anxiously seeking work but had not had time to even Inquire for employment before be-fore they were arrested and taken to the station. One man, James Keenan. stated that he had Just left the train He paid his fare to ride In and was on his way up town to get a room when he was approached by one of the railroad rail-road officials and asked where he was goin?. He said he told the man he was going up town, whereupon he was advised that he was "under arrest." He bad something over $17 in hi' pocket, but he was taken to jail am remained there until after 10 o'cloc' this morning. A number ot the men exhibited "un ion cards" and proved to the satis faction of the court that -they were not lpafers. ( One case brought to light the fact that four young men had been given transportation in a refrigerator car from Evanston to Ogden by the "head brakeman" and tho Ibys were arrest ed as trespassers, as sion as they ar rived in Ogden bv officers of the rail road company. Two of the boys were under 18 years of age and the other two were only 21 years old. They all had money. |