Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-10-15
REFORM SCHOOL CANDIDATES.
Ono Of Them Creates a Sensation BY
Tbraii9lils to Shoot BarSoh.
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NAV md CiArr JohnsOn, couple OF
vouthful candidates for Reform School
bouor, were arrsigned in the Police
court this morning on charge Of
yarrancy. They were az braSon and
laxative ns pair Of Poll parrots aud
,hoyed q shRmelessnefs that was pitt
fol TO see. Their toilets, too, wolo
not OF the best. Tho girls were
aged slg,oon and seventeen years res-
pec.iv,ly and snid that their parents
lived OF Provo and that they had come
TO Salt Lake to make IA livelihood for
themselves. OF late they hal both
been doing servants duty Mt n hotel
here al were attaches Of that hotel
at present.
Sergeant Eslinger testified that he
found thom wandering the streets ut a
late hour last night and that their de-
meanor was rude and unlhdylike. He
watched thcm for while thinking
that they would so home, but presently
they were Joined by q couple Of soldiers
who had bottle OF wine from which
the girls both drank two or three times.
Tho quartetto started up State street
and passed through the Eagle Gate.
As thuy went up First street The
soldiers commenced TO be familiar
with the young women, and he placed
them under arrest for >Vagranoy' Ihe
soldiers were allowed to so, but tho
tai fsI la
In the city Jail.
When brought before the court he
Ignorance and inexperiunce OF the
frail prisoners were shown. They had
not the remotest idea OF what
"vagrRnoy" meant.
Attorney n. q. Ferguson was pres
ent and Immediately volunteered 70 do
iend the young women. Prosecuting
Attorney COnd was giving the girls n
sharp Ieprimnnd and warning them to
shun the company Of unknown men
and especially soldiers, whom Mr. For
guson Interrupted with:
IL my brother please, | want him 10
understand that the United states amy
Is made upOf some OF the best men the
country can produce and
"And some Of the worst scrubs That
were ever BORN" hastily added Mfr.
Cond.
Mr.. Ferguson (wprmly)-I deny It.
Mr.. Coad.-You need not; you know
better.
Mr.. Ferguson-I object to these un-
warranted insinulti0ns.
Mr.. COad-Iou have no right 10 and
you might ms well understand right
now that l DON'T propose 10 be inter
Tuptud further by an outsider-by ono
who has no right Ia this case.
Mr.. Ferguson-i have right In this
case and no one can prevent no from
acting for these young women unless
they themselves object.
Minis MAy-We uon't object.
blr. FeEguaon-NO, OF course you
DON'T.
Mr.. CoAd addressing tho prisoners
who were standing near the judicial
chair)-Now, do you think you eau
behave yourselves II tho court allows
you 10 go-will you 60 home?
"Yes," responded May, "bit ! will
have TO 90 and tell tho folks at the
hotel about It,"
Mr.. Ferguson-These girls need not
To driven from their work.
hr. Coad--NO, i do not wish TO be
that harsh with them, but they Inust
keep oil the streets Mt night.
Miss May wouldn't have been
here today II had had pistol last
night.
Judge Gee-what Is that?
Miss May--I say wish l had had q
pistol.
Judge Gce-what would you have
done with II?
Miss My desperately - Why,
would have killed myself, sir; that's
what i would have done.
Judge Gee-YOu must not think oil
That madam; you are young woman
aud that In serious crime.
Miss May-Well, | have done 1t all the
ZANE.
The court then gave the way.
war; pnaidens bit OF fathoTly advice
and discharged them.
A DOUBLE DOSE.
Lewis Madison, the big burly miner
who wns arrested by Onicer Soiglus
yesterday afternoon for nssaulting q
couple OF men ina Commercial street
saloon, was arraigned and pleaded
guilty to fighting. He was fined SIS.
Immediately aftor hs was placed be-
hind the bars he engaged IN a noisy
controversy with prisoner named
Mulhoiland. The affair resulted In q
personal encounter in which Mulhol.
land was fesrfully bruised and beaten.
For this Olense Madison was sub
Jected to n severe reprimand by the
court, who imposed upon him an addi.
uonni fine OF $50 or thirty days imprle-
oBment.
Mulhulland was brought into the
court room and presented horrible ap-
peaTauco as the result OF the encounter.
FOR BEGGING.
George Scott, one.armod bootblaol
and newhboy, who arrived In town
ytsterday from LeRdville, was ar
THigned for begging. He was dis.
charged with Instructions not to repeat
the UiienBc.
George Williams, a pal Of the same
age, ula1 n native Of the Centennial
htale, waa aTrRigned for the sam,
0asnee, but Was TecOmmitted TO the