Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-09 | Page 6 | They Fought over the Fight

THEY FOUGHT OVER THE FIGHT Tom IJoa and Fred Bath were ar. r.iifcQed In police court on the charg of disturbing the peace. July 8. Lion pleaded guilty, but Bath said he wag not guilty. Lion was used as a wit-ne?s wit-ne?s against Math and Bath was convicted, con-victed, the court sentencing the men to pay a fine of $5 each or serve five days in the city Jail at hard labor. Tho evidence in the case showed that the men engaged In a quarrel in ono of the lower Twenty-fifth i street saloons yesterday afternoon n'jeut the Johnson-Joffrlea fight and. not being able to settle the dispute In words, proceeded to the back yard where an effort was made to settle the dispute in a fistic way. Bath stated that Lion begged him for 25 rents and when he toid hlni he had no iL.oney, Lion called him bad names. To uphold his reputation as a man, Bath aii id, he had to strike Lion. "L was forced to hit the man, your honor." eald Bath. William Jones was charged with vagrancy, alleged to have been com milted July 7, and he pleaded guilty, lie was sentenced to pay a fine of $10, or serve ten cayn in the city jail at hard labor. Notwithstanding the fact that Jone9 is a colored man. City Attorney De Vine stated to the court that he had made a "white mark in the municipal court annals," because he is tho first colored man that eer pleaded guilty.