Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-24
BRISK BUSINESS
IN POLICE COURT
Three Hard Characters Get Sixty
Days Each for Vagraucy
TIMM0NY MAKES REQUEST,
Asks Police Court Clerk 60 Insert Hint
In Next Annual Report 10
City Council.

The police rounded up the Klondlke
saloon on west South Temple street last
night and as consequence gathered
In several hard characters who were
given on Monday an hour TO leave
town. sentence for vasrancy being sus-
pended interim. officers Randolph and
Dillon also gathered in William Rogers
who was suspected OF being mixed up
in an attempted hold up some few days
ago. Rogers Is the youth with a por-
tion Of his upper ZIP shot away and Is
regarded as bad UNI by the stu
dents OF human nature around head
quarters.
The defendant Rogers pleaded not
guilty TO the charge Of vagrancy in the
police court this afternoon and stated
that after he had been released from
jail that he had joufneyed TO ogden
ana only was passing through Salt
Lake en- route 10 Mercur when he was
arrested.
you are given an hour TO leave
town, and you had better 60, | promise
you, said Judge TimmOny
Il viii, / assure YOU said Rogers,
with the sweeping bow Of a oourter as
he vanished through the doorway.
Pat Farrell, Pat Daily and james Sea
man. then were given sixty days each
on a suspended sentence for yagrancy;
evidently the trio dld not appreciate
a. oil % h..a gwh ff
Of neglect in their early training when
the ultlmatum was delivered.
Frank Kelly then arose In fear aud
trembling, for be il known after he was
thrown In Jail last night he put a
head" on a Chinaman who Is an unwill-
ing and prosecuted inmate of JailOr
klmball's menagerie. Nothing was
said about the incident, however. and
Kelly spoke up in an injured tone, and
said he was no vagrant' IN plead
guilty 10 drunk. yer honor. but | am
an honest man, and was Just giving an
exhibition Of club swinging in the
klondike saloon, for some beer, when
de cops come IN an pinched me-
Il will suspend sentence and you get
out Of town in one hour"
"S'welp me judge | will"
Thomas Murphy took his cue and
whined out a story Of anguish to the
effect that he was only released from
jail at .. m. yesterday to be arrested
at $50.
Prosecutor Delhi stated that Murphy
was begging, and withal, was very
abusive TO those who gave him the
mackerel eye
Murphy was given the benefit Of the
doubt and told TO leave instanter or
get 100 lays.
Murphy left.
c. y, Sermon. a Tie tourist from
Sandy neekly acquiesced to the cSfn-
plant wherein the word drunkenness"
stood out In bold relief. Three days
was his portion.
May Whiting. whom officer Chase
designated as nothing particular only
taking M the whole sidewalk on Sec
ond South at o'clock this morning"
ala not fare so well. Amid copions
tears she was sent back for Ave days.
Then a red-haired individual named
A. Groesbeck, with q bloody lip arose
and stated: II II please sir, | only
got two drinks and a hit on the mouth"
You must have taken two pretty
good ones from all Appearances
unused the court, "Oh, 90 home
Sam Redican arose and related the
circumstances surrounding the presen-
tati0n Of the bloody lip aforesaid He
said he was trying TO get an ex-hos-
.piial patient away from Groesbeck's
unwelcome attentions when the latter
grabbed him. Then he smote Groesbeck
In sclf-defense, also on the mouth.
The judge said 49,"
Prosecutor Delhi arose and then
asked that the case agains. Joseph
Hicks Tor cutting down Mrs G.. H. XII
patrlck's clothes line be dismissed as
the complaining witness, after swearing
out the complaint, dld not care TO
prosecute.
The jurge reluctantly made an order
70 that effect and asked the clerk 20
insert a request IN his annual report 20
the city Council to the effect that that
body take action, so that IN future all
costs Of complaints, that are dropped
by complaining witnesses without a
hearing shall fall upon their devoted
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