The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-12-14

Oscar Wilson, a professional vag, was
brought up before Justice Bean yester-
day by Constable Nolan for the pur-
pose OF having his vagrant talents re-
viewed and inasmuch as he has just
barely completed a term OF imprison-
ment for the same unambitious crime,
the judge was quite severe in his advice
to the prisoner, which set Oscar Wilde
and made him too utterly utter for any
use. Oscar has a capillary protection
above his unenergetic mind which is de-
cidedly beyond auburn in hue, and he
promulgated his intention to resent this
far from aesthetic discourse, in a very
emphatic manner, but Bean under a
commitment until to-day for sentence,
he had to repair to his prison cell to
mediate with fire in his watering eyes
and fire water in his system upon the
tyrannous system of municipal govern
ment which will not allow a man to
live like a parasite upon the labors Of a
more energetic class of humanity.
1t wasn't the hero of the Mansfield.
Fisk tragedy who was brought before
Judge Bean yesterday upon the charge
of larceny as bailee, but emphatically a
bird of another color, and sad to LAY a
prominent member of the Cheyenne fire
department, evea Alert, whose name is
very familiar to our t~ownspeople. Mrs.
Levi delegated said gentleman with the
task of taking an unavailable bedstead
to the second hand store as well as a
watch which had been on hand for a
long time-too long a time to dial-ate
upon, to the jewelry store to await the
disposition of the wne to make a dis
position of the same. Stokes-there the
cats outlook the bedstead and sold
it for S1.50. He looked with a CON-
passionate eye upon the watch which
might fall into strange hands, and
made arrangements to have 81 it repaired
for a consideration Of $500 with the
intention of putting it into his own
vest pocket. Yrs. Levi went to the
secondhand store 10 inake arrange
ments for the sale of the furniture and
10, it was already sold; went 70 see
about the watch, and 10, it had been
left for repairs, repairs paid for and
orders given not to deliver it up to any
n but the one who brought it there.
There was discord in the feelings of the
Levites and Stokes was summoned be-
fore the magistrate to account for his ill
conduct. Stokes plead his innocence:
"You 'spose rs a t'eif? Moo. Now
dars Massa Post, he been gone of
Wash'ton an he lef me in charge o. de
tings in de house, an de tings in de
barn am "a his prop'ty heah. You
'spose he'd u done dat if I's a t'eifp
No o. Now dars Miss Levi, INN; /
don't wanta say nothin' 'g'inst her,
but didn't steal dem tings. I's her
agent to sell 'em an L did sell 'em, but
1s no t'eif, noe. rs gwine to pay her
de money, but L spent it. 'Spose eff /
stealed dem tings I'd a staid heahi
m-ml I'd a skip'd, OATS what | would.
but rs heah, am dat go's to sho' rs nc
t'eif."
The evidence put the fellow in a bad
light however, and Judge Bean was
compelled to infiict a sentence of two
days i'll the county Jail or a fine of SIC
with costs, the prisoner to return the
receipts from the bedstead and the watch.
The prisoner had already been in jail
an hour or two awaiting the subpoena
of a witness, and the sight of the cell
was enough to satisfy him. and be
chose the latter alternative.
why jedge, dar's ghost in dat dark
cell an I'd a rather pay twenty dollars
IN to stay in dar ten minutes"