Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-17 | Page 7 | Odd Bits of Police Life

r ODD BITS OF POLICE LIFE I It w was wis s a 1 lull dull morning In police conr court yesterday The rite overcast skies despite the while snow made mad the tho courtroom more mon dismal than ever An even oven score of of offenders offenders of- of fenders lined up on the prisoners' prisoners bench Judge J. J M. M Bowman was In In Inthe the tIle same mood as the tho sky Result t James Kelly en dr drunk nl 3 j 3 or five the days a sCharl s Charl elon a vagrancy rancy sixty days Lew ew Fields vagrancy sixty dabs Judge Fields whimpered I I went right out to Bingham m and got ot a a job when you let lot me mc go the last time Honest Honest- I just came Into town yesterday re to get ret a little medicine so I r could keep on work work- ing it I 1 had to ha have 1 it What hat was the me medicine dope Falteringly Yes sir fir Two months Call the next case casc If c you OU gentlemen to debate on this subject of or the of of or trial by jury jur rn ll him 30 a hall Interrupted his honor when n William Dalton public ic prosecutor nn and William Newton a police polle court lawer lawyer law law- yer er started to ar arguing about Magna a na Charta and kindred bits of or history relating relating In ing to the Inalienable right of or trial b by Jury The Ti-me assistant city attorney moved d to dismiss half dismiss half haIr a dozen or more charges of or vagrancy 3 against again street et women n. n The Time day b before on Judge Bowman BO mad had taken similar d. d des e I from a u jurys jury's hands and directed d verdict a-verdict of ot not guil Uil 5 SI So Mr Ir Dalton Dallon did not ken the use of nay nay- Ing log 23 21 for COl jur on only to set get et a dismissal The new new new-ca were d. If this this' farce of a C jur Jury trial In police I court w were re m-e 1 0 said s h he maybe matters matters matters mat mat- could b be be- facilitated Offenders get a Jury In police court another In th the district dis triet court and I suppose the they will be he wanting a Jury trial In th time the supreme court And ma maybe be a 3 Jur jury trial before the po- po man arrests them ad added ed the court Then William Newton Ne commenced his peroration on the rl right ht gr granted in Magna Charta to lo trial b by jul Jury He ml might ht have e been still talking If Ie the judge had not hea headed cd him off oft When police court was over yester yesterday ay morning two prisoners were left on the bench Frank Knox's name was on the list Hat but there had been no complaint sworn to against him Thc There rc did not seem to be bo even a record of Robert Ryan Hyan who said ho he had been arrested d for being only drunk your honor Both tried to persuade the judge to let them theta go 0 as the they wished to have hac their liberty over mer Sun Sun- day Cant do o anything with your our cases case said raid the jl d judge Judie e. e Ryan Ran you o ha not i been arrested If your your Is not on the records You are not In police court nt Tit all nH Knox you will wilt ba ha e e to wait walt until Monday until the patrolman who arrested you OU swears s out a complaint for disturbing disturbing dis dis- dis The name of or P. P Smith arrested the peace appeared on the list Ryan Ran was asked ed It If he was P p. Smith na os nano no one had answered to that name HP lie denied the tho accusation II lIt lIe a admitted that he might have b ben n so full tuB that he did not know his when arrested o own on n name and he ho might have hare been booked as ag Smith because cause that would strike It as near as I nn any