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Show HOWARD TO ESCAPE PRISON On motion of District Attorney Nathan Na-than J. Harris. In the district court this morning. Ihe case of the State against C. P. Howard, charged with issuing a fictitious check, wad dismissed dis-missed and the defendant released. The distiict attorney stated that be had been reliably informed that the defendant had heretofore borne a good reputation and that no other charges of a criminal nature ever ha 1 been preferred against him. It also being true that Howard did not cash the cheek in question. Mr. HarrU also said that he did not think the man had committed an of fensc that would Justify a penitentiary peniten-tiary sentence nnd that. If the case were dismissed, he would be charged with a m silciueanor nnd tried for the same in the lower court. Howard is an elderly man and rlainis ; to bo a worklngman. A number of! cheeks similar to tho one which he, was charged with having drawn In a fictitious name, were found in his poscsslon, but ho had not attempted to cash any but the one for $2f. S". He has been held In the city and county j Jail for about six weeks |