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Show CASE WILL NOT BE A FARCE - Judge Murphy of the municipal court does not intend that the arrest of Alvin Tribe l,y Special Officer William Wil-liam Reast on a charge of automobile speeding shall prove a farce. The case, which has been continued continu-ed a number of times, was opened this morning and Officer Reast and an assistant officer placed upon the witness wit-ness stand. The officers swore that on August 23 they had seen a motor car being driven at a very high rate of speed on Washington avenue and that one of the occupants of the vehicle ve-hicle was Deputy Sheriff John Hut-chins. Hut-chins. They caught the number rather rath-er indefinitely and later went to sec Mr. Hutchens. The deputy sheriff declined de-clined to tell them who owned the machine in which be was riding. They found that the number which" they supposed was on the machine belonged belong-ed to the Tribe car and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Alvin Tribe. Mr. Tribe very easily proved an alibi. ali-bi. In fact before the trial this morning morn-ing it was known to the arresting officers of-ficers that Tribe was not the man who was driving the spcedlu. car, but the case was brought into court In order that Deputy Hutchens might be forced on the witness stand to reveal re-veal who the real owner of the car Is. After 'he hearing of the testimony of the two policemen, the Judge dismissed dis-missed the action against Tribe, but stated tbat a similar action will be brought ajalnst llutchc-ns as It Is the intention of the court to find the violator vio-lator of speed ordinance on that particular par-ticular occasion and punish him. |