The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-26
AVERY COSTLY LARK
Alexander Donaldson Gets Four
Years For 1t.
HOUSE BREAKERS PLEAD GUILTY
Number Of Defendants Arranged Yester
day-A Reform School Candidate-He
Stole the Clothes-Police News.
sit was only a lark, your honor. y

sit was only Lark, your honor"
This was the remark made by Alexander
Donaldson to Judge Zane yesterday morn
ing in explaining a charge of robbery
against him.
1t seems that on December 16 last, Don
aldson, Lafayette Utley and Jerome Smith,
three young men of Tooele, rugged them
selves out with masks, weapons, ETC., in
the most approved highwayman style, and
proceeding to the saloon Of Moses Bru-
neau, broke in the door, beat the proprietor
and then walked off with $50 of his money.
The precious trio were arrested, and the
grand jury returned indictments against
each of them for robbery. They
were arraigned before Judge Zane
yesterday morning, and Smith and
| Utley pleaded not guilty, while Donaldson
acknowledged the corn. He stated that he
was ready for sentence, and when asked
by the court what he had to say for him
self, he naively remarked that it was "only
lark" He and his companions put on
masks and went to Bruneau's saloon. AS
the door was fastened they good naturally
broke it in, and then playfully beat
! Bruneau until he looked as though he had
been run through thrashing machine.
Then Donaldson humorously put his hand
in the saloon mans pocket and took out q
sack of money. Having thus had their
lark, the young men departed.
Judge Zane did not question that the
whole thing was lark On the contrary
he seemed to think that it was a very clever
lark, and one that demanded recognition.
The recognition came in the shape of a
sentence to four years. Imprisonment in
the penitentiary, and Donaldson was taken
out to his new home in the afternoon.
CHARGED WITH PERJURY.
George H. Jackson entered plea of not
guilty to al Indictment charging him with
perjury. This case arises out of the suit
brought by Al Msllow, a colored man,
against the City Railway company to re-
cover damages for being elected from a
street car. On the trial, jackson testified
that he saw Mattaw elected from the car,
and it is charged that IN this he testified
falsely.
FOR BURGLARY.
James A. Ransom, charged with burglar
izing Philip Spry's tailor shop on South
Temple street in November last, and steal
ing lot of cloth, pleaded not guilty, and
Joseph Hurd WAS appointed to defend him
HESS GETS YEAR.
Charles Hess and John Williams, two
! young fellows who claim to be walters
were next arraigned on the charge oil
, breaking into j. H. McCoy's barn an6
stealing lot of linen. Hess entered pie;
of guilty, and Judge Zane sentenced him tt
one years Imprisonment in the penitenti
, ary. Williams pleaded not guilty and the
/ court appointed j. ri. Stull to defend him
|, HEDGES PLEADS NOT GUILTY.
Joseph Hedges. stupid, brutal looking
, young fellow, who has already done tim
for similar offense, pleaded not guilty t.
the charge of assaulting Florence Leste
with intent to commit rape.
CARLTON PLEADS GUILTY.
Edwin Carlton, charged with house
j breaking, entered plea of guilty an
: threw himself on the mercy of the court
r Judge Zane made the punishment fit tn
crime by giving him one year in the peri
/. Tertiary.