The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-04
MORE PUNK NEEDED
CITY JAILER SOL LEVY WOULD
HAVE BUSINESS BETTER.
INCENSE AS A REAL MASCOT
Many Offenders Arraigned at the Bar
Of Justice-Some Pay Fines
and Others Do
Not,

"Chinese punk to burn" said Jailer
Sol Levy, this morning, after The few
| cases before Judge Boyle had been dis
posed of. There is no use talking about
| it; punk is the thing to make business.
| and it is up to me to get some of the
| Oriental incense, and that's all there is
about it,"
| What do you want with Chinese
| punk?" queried the attenuated interro-
| cation point at SoIs elbow. How can
| Chinese punk make business, and what
business is there to be made in a police
court"
We'll, l suppose you are from Mis-
souri," quoth the witty Sol, 80 l will
just consume about three minutes of the
city's time to tell you thing or two.
But first of all, let me assure you
| that when I go to lunch l am going to
take look-in at Chinatown and get
some punk.
Sol Shows the Difference.
| You see it is like this--some days we
have lots of cases that bring lots OF
money, and some days we have lots of
cases that bring in no money to speak
| of.
"Then, again, we have a few cases
where all pay fines and we are satisfied
at that But when we have only few
cases and there is not piece of coin in
the bunch, business is on the bad.
| "Of course, circumstances govern all
| cases, but when there is a Stringency in
the money market and no fines are being
paid what is the use Of pulling .he vio-
lators in and feeding them for various
periods and putting the city to the eX-
pense?
Look at this mornings work-here
we have tried nine cases and Judge
Boyle has not received a two-bit piece
for the trouble. Compare that with
Saturdays results. where we had six
cases and collected fines from all.
Il tell you, we need Chinese punk to
break the spell-it always works. Once
burned 1t and we got Is women in the
Jail in as many hours.
Sixteen Fines Paid.
THAT meant the payment of is fines
Yes sir, women always pay fines. That
u.s. with few exceptions Now, YOU look
over that tab of this morning and See
what we did,
|
carefully .perused the jailers tab and
what he encountered was as follows:
Bill JONES' Tom Perkins and John
Doe were araigned as plain unembel-
lished drunks and all entered pleas of
mot guilty" The preponderance of evil
dence was against them, however, and
Judge Boyle fined them IS each. None
could pay the fine and the result is that
all are now city charges TO: short
periods.
j. c. Dolin thought. after hearing SEN
tence imposed on the Others that he
would plead guilty to charge Of being
drunk. and throw himself on the mercy
of the court.
He reckoned without his host, how
ever as Judge Boyle nominated SIS as the
amount Dolin must pay in order to Sc
cure his liberty. Dolin had not the neces-
sary s. and stepped back.
Makes Loud Noise.
It was charged against Mollie Muir
ray, dusky damself with a voice ca
pable of particularly stentorian tones,
that she had been guilty of making loud
noises in the street. Mollie essayed nc
defense of a convincing character and
in default of payment of a $40 fine was
committed.
Robert jackson, accused of making
loud noises in the street. entered a plea
of not guilty and his case was held over
until tomorrow afternoon.
On the record book or blotter of the
jailer appears the name of John Fox, "
and opposite the name is the charge
gambling When the case was called
in court this morning Fox declined tC
plead for the present and was given As
hours in which to make up his mind.
Fox was arrested by Clerk Winn o!
the police court Friday, according to his
statement made at his place of business
Il East Park street.
Calls It Joke.
He said VIM entered the confectionery
store and talked to him about shaking
dice. He said the matter was discussed
in a jocular way, but he did not deny
that he had been shaking the bones.
He claimed too, that te entry to the
effect that he had left on deposit a cash
bond of IS was erroneous.
Clerk Winn said he arrested Fox fol
shaking dice and appeared much amused
when told of the Joke story Whether
Fox is the victim of a joke remains tC
be seen. He had 4S hours allowed hin
by Judge Boyle to determine whether
he will plead guilty or not guilty.
William Monihan, against whom there
is recorded a charge of assault and bat
terry, wanted little more time. and hi
was given until tomorrow afternoon t.
prepare for trial.
Discharging firearms was the charge