The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-25
He Draws $50 Days in the Police
Court.
THOUGHT IT A HUGE JOKE.
HE MAKES AN EXPLANATION" TO
THE COURT.
One Gang of Thieves Who Have
Been Taughg a LessOn-Nessel-
house Saved By His '.AIea1 Tick
et'-Three Young Burglars-Police
Court and Pointers.

! ney Waite fought a long ana eACll1lS
| contest against great odds. He won
Ed Livingstone's freedom from the
charge of stealing Wiscomb's wagon,
and being interested with W. 7. An
derson in several other deals with Bob
Fortune. Livingstone was a happy
man when he finally passed through
the ordeal.
Fortunes $50 Days.
When Bob Fortune was called upon
to answer to the charge of stealing
harness by the wholesale, Boulton's
buggy, wagon covers, tarpaulins,
wagon tongues, thills, whips. blank
cts and silk handkerchiefs, he asked
to be tried along with Livingstone
Neff and Anderson. He plead not
guiltv as to the combine, and thus
Shielded the others by demanding a
trial with them. AS Counsel Waite
was acting only for Livingstone it
made it awkward for Fortune, so he
was asked to plead to the charge OF
stealing the velvet carpet from Mrs
Cross. which was found in one of Liv-
| ingstone's rooms, given to him by For
tune, in order to keep the bed bugs
from eating it."
Il am guilty of stealing the car
pet" said Fortune, laughing, as though
| it was a huge joke. THAT is, judge, L
didn't take it off the line. had an
other party take it off the line and
carry it out so 1 could get at it easy,
and then L hauled it away. 1t was
such an easy graft 1 could not re-
| sist it."
mo, L guess that is true, Bob" re-
piled Judge Smith. 81 really believe
that you cannot help but steal. 1 have
| let you off easy and allowed you to go
so many times that it seems to be no
use. I'll find you guilty of petty lar
ceny. You are better off in Jail than
out of it, and your wife would be bet
ter off if you were away fronNher. The
sentence of the court is that you pay
a fine of $50 and perform 100 days la
Dor. If you do not pay the $50 you
will work out the extra fifty days."
The smile had left Fortunes face,
and when Judge Smith concluded he
sank into his seat ashen pale, while
Livingstone blushed to the roots Of
his hair in contemplation of what a
narrow escape there was in sight.
| Mrs. Cross was in court during the
trial, and at it's conclusion she had
the carpet hauled home, and Fortune
started in on his term of $50 days at
hard labor.
Neff's case was continued until Mon
| day in order to give his attorney a
! chance to get his fees.
The petty thief, Heene, who was ar
rested with Bob Fortune, and held as
witness, was again given until 6
o'clock last night to get out of town,
and thus ended the last chapter in the
good work of Officers Shannon and
Pratt.
Nesselhouse Fined $50.
Levy Nesselhouse, who was dis
charged yesterday on a complaint Of
! vagrancy, was found guilty of using
abusive language to Cashier H. C. B.
| Gill in front of Wey's restaurant, and
fined $15. His meal ticket paid his
fine and then he started out again on
another brief career at large in this
city.
Three Young Burglars.
! Three young men who gave the nom
! de plumes of John Smith, Charles Pc
tiers and Robert Shaw, have been until
! last Tuesday rooming at a West Tenn
| pie street apartment house. They told
! Judge Smith that the charge of burg
larry against them was substantially
correct, as they then viewed it, but
| that they had climbed thehtransom and
distracted the clothes from the room
upon the advice of Attorney Rognon,
who subsequently bailed them out to
answer Monday.
| 1t appears from Smiths" story that
they had rented the front parlor from
the landlady for $50 a month, and paid
nothing in advance, and when she
wanted cash instead of the two pianos
that were on exhibition in the room
| they claimed that times were hard and
would settle later on. When the sixth
day passed they found their door
locked, with the key tied in the lock
inside, and $12 charges to settle. They
protested, they said, and expostulated
not only on the lockout but the bill
being $12, instead of Sc for six days,
which amount was rendered in settle
ment, but refused. They also asked
they said, for their clothes, upon which
proposition they were also turned
| down.
They then changed quarters to lodg-
ings over the '16 to u rooming house
161 West South Temple street, and
they claim, sought advice as to how to
get their clothes out of the other place
They claim that they were advised
that "as long as they did not break
! IN the door Iney were all right in
abstracting them. Accordingly they
went at the unseemly hour of between
4 and o'clock Saturday morning and
the smallest of the trio was boosted
through the transom, opened the door
and soon three young men with three
grips might have been seen getting
out of the house.
officers Sheets and Raleigh were
sent out on the case when it was re-
ported and they soon brought in the
piano crew." They admitted the
whole scheme and were put under
bonds, but subsequently Judge Smith
released them on their own recogni-
zance upon their settling with the
landlady, and agreeing to appear in
court tomorrow morning to answer to
the charge of trespass, upon which
there will be a lecture and dismissal.
More Putrid Ice.
Frank Price admitted that he was
| guilty of hauling condemned ice ia
ken from a pond in the west end of
| town, for which there had been pre-
vious case and trial and defendant
! fined. He admitted he was in the en-
| ploy of the Murray Meat company, 800
! South State street, and was using the
| ice for cold storage. He was arrested
by Deputy Food Inspector Carl Zuck-
swert, and the case was prosecuted by
/ Health officer McAlliSter. By the adj
vice of others Price said he hauled the
! ice for cold storage only and not for
personal use or sale. Zuckswert said
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