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Show MANY MEN IN POLICE COURT They Were Gathered in Last Night When the Officers of the Law Made a Raid on the Resorts Along Twenty-fifth Street Queer Explanations Made to Judc Murphy. It was necessary to bring an extra bench into tbe court room at the po-' Jiee station this morning in order to rcconuiiortutc the prisoners umbered in by tie police lust night in their raid of the Twenty filth street retorts. re-torts. Wirh few exceptions Ihe thirteen men caught in the meshes of the dragnet drag-net pleaded not guilty to the charge of vagrancy anj it was necessary to call Detective James Pender to the stand in order to secure convictions. Each cf the prisoners in defending himself staled that he was not a professional "hanger-on" nor a vagrant, at lb,1 gambling house, but was in the city looking for work of a more legitimate character and had merely dropped Into the place where found as n spectator. Ilert Johnson, the first man to Ulc the witness chair, told the court that he had been working for William Fr.izer but. on account of sore feel, had been compelled to give up his position po-sition for the time being. In -inswer i to the question of the court relative to his financial condition, Eraser stated stat-ed that lie was 'broke' v. hen arrested. arrest-ed. "Well, a man cant live on sore feet," reflected the judge in passing sentence on the prisoner. Frazcr received re-ceived a fine of $10 or ten days in prison. J. .1 Lindqulst stated that lie bad a sister In this city and was in the ci'y on a visit. He stoutly denied that he was a vagrant, out claimed tint he was looking for a Job. According to his story, he had been In Ondeu a'oout two months. He had no money when arrested. Lludquist was found guilty and fined $10 George Jones claimed tint he was in Og.lcn taking baths for rheumatism. Jones had no money when arrested, and his story was Ml accepted as true by tbe couit. He .vas found gulliv of vjfiancy and the fi-ulntlo'i line meted met-ed .r.u to him. "! came here witi- the races and lost my n.oney," was the excuse made by I K:rg King stated that he had been viH.ing aror d rncc tracks ! Marly iwer.ty years. "Yo.i ought 'o Know by ih is time that you can't beat the hoops." eflld the Jude and the prisoner prison-er was placed among the "goals." Ihe same fine was administered. J. Kula told a story of being a masseur and stated that he was in- I tending to open a massage parlor In this city. Detective Tender stated that Kula was a rounder with no visible vis-ible means of support. The prisoner's statement, that he intended to start business for himself was lmpeache.1 by the lact that he bad no money when arrested. He was found guilty as charged and fined A prl-oiK-r, giving his name as E. Proctor, and slating that he was u hcrsemanemployed in taking care of harses at the present time, was turned turn-ed over to the chief of police by the court. If Proctor's story is found to be correct, he will be released. Joseph Fonswoith stated that he j was in the city living off his friends, but was expecting to get out of town today. Fonswoith w'lll remain In the city prison for the ne$ ten days no-I no-I ss some of his friends come to his aid. Tom Johnson. R. Russell and A. E. Snow each told stories of being out of work at the present time, but denied de-nied that they were vagtants. They were each found guilty and given sentences sen-tences of Sio or ten days. D. F. Avery, arraigned on the wrac charge, pleaded not guilty and Dncc-the Dncc-the Pender asked that the man be allowed to go free as there was reason to believe that the police had made a mistake in his case. Avery was dismissed. John D. Kcenan pleaded gulltv to the charge of vagrancy anil was lined Jin or ton da vs. D. Lerov pleaded eullty to the same charge and was given a suspended sentence of ninety days. Leroy proved prov-ed to the court's satisfaction that he has a job waiting hlni. Chailos .Moorehouse and R. Benson were found gullly i.f va.xranej and fined $10 or ten days. |