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Show Jl THE POLICE COURT YESTERDAY Nearly a score of prisoners caught in the drag net of the police on Saturday Sat-urday night when a number of Twenty-fifth street resorts were raided, WTie arraigned In police court yes- t terday. All these prisoners were L charged with vagrancy. I'ete Standlsh, John l.acey, Ed I Lansdalc and Pnul Sheehan were sen- I tenced to serve ten das in the city prison, as they could give no satisfactory satisfac-tory account of how they were making their living or for what purpose they were staying in Ogden. lid McDonald, Charles Smith, Geo. Newby, M. llolahan. John Riley, Lans Olson and Joe Bennett were permitted to go free, as each or them established establish-ed the fact that they were in the city to obtain work or had jobs to which they could go if released Roy Coats, aged 19, and Wade Miles, aged IS, admitted that they had been drinking when arrested and that Unjy had secured the intoxicants in a saloon on Twenty-fifth street. City Attorney James De Vine asked that the boys Ik? held so that an effort could be made to use them as wit neases against the saloon keeper who sold them the drinks. i J. C. Bolton, charged with vagrancy, , "was given a suspended senlenee of b' days and ordered to leave the city i or be prepared to srve the time In , prlin. Charles Grandhome. who appeared l to be the victim of environment and j circumstances, admitted that he had been addicted lo the use of opium for G years and that he has been trying try-ing to break himself of the habit. He stated that his father runs a saloon and gambling house and that he was raised in the atmosphere1 of iee. The prisoner toid of his efforts t get out of the underworld and Into a more ' legitimate manner of living and of his failures. So frank and truthful was the prisoner that the city attorney attor-ney was convinced of the integrity of the man and asked that he be not punished Grandhome was permitted to leave the court room without a sentence, sen-tence, j |