Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-21
BEFORE THE PEOPLES BAR
Two Mothers with Babes In Arms
Are Fined for stealing
at store.

Josephine and Mary Gevaci, two we'll
dressed Italian women from Council BLUFFS.
were each fined s. aud costs in police court
Monday morning for lifting a handbag at
Kilpatricks store Saturday afternoon.
When the loss was reported by Mrs. n.
O. McCune Of Sr4 North Thirty-seventh
street 10 Robert Cowel Of the Fitzpatrick
store Mr. Coweil at once suspected the
Gevsci women. whom he trailed to the
Boston store with Mrs. McCune. At the
Boston store Mrs. McCune at once ideuti-
fled her purse in the hands OF Josephine
Gevaci. who claimed her sister gave her
the receptacle The woman was taken to
the Boston store by MIR. Cowell. who To-
Gated Mrs. McCune's papers hid under a
pile of blankets in the basement of the
store. The women claimed they found the
handbag on the floor OF the Fitzpatrick
store.
The judge let the women or with light
fine the offense being their first, and gave
them little curtain lecture on the evils OF
taking that which is not their own. Tho
Judge pointed to the two infants borne in
the arms of the women and reminded the
mothers they should set better examples
for their children.
Washers, beware. The plain clothes men
will get YOU If you do not watch out, and
the police judge will fine you il he gets
you before the peoples bar
With a red boutonniere in his coat, a
Naming cravat patent leather shoes and
cane, Jacob Yuio bethought himself
Yankee Doodle Dandy Saturday evening,
when he accosted quite a number Of women
at Sixteenth and Douglas streets, accord
ing to the testimony of Detective Heitfeld
in police court Monday morning The off,
Ger also said the man blocked the way a
the Young Mems Christian association
building and Hayden's store, much to the
discontinue of several young women who
had no interest in Yullo's attentions nor
glad garments.
Disorderly conduct was the charge placed
against Yullo at the city Jail. Police Judge
Berka fined Yullo so and costs.
Figured out in dollars and cents, John
Davis, colored. now believes discretion to
be the better part OF valor. He says II is
/ no use getting strong when there is no real
occasion for it.
! The story. goes Davis entered the Omaha
restaurant Sunday evening, ordered a meal
and declined to pay the cashier. The for
/ NAL charge against the man was drunken
ness and disorderly conduct. He was fined
/ s. and costs. The meal would have cost
him = cents.
| Teacher to Pupil--If s. and costs equals
s. 80 and John pays s., 80 for what he might
have paid 20 cents, how much more did he
pay than he would have paid If he had paid
the % cents?
! Pupil to Teacher-I know: 1928
David Tobin, l hear bad reports about
you" remarked the police Judge to a pris-
! oner Monday morning.
The report sent from the desk sergeant
of the police station to the police court at
taohes read Mrs. Tobin reports her hus-
band has been on "a drunk for three weeks
and she wants him sobered up. She vii
appear in police court Monday morning
! Mrs Tohin failed to appear, hut Tobn
! saved the trouble or sunmoning the woman
by admitting he had been on spree OF
! three weeks.
a sedative.
One touch of nature made the whole
world kin for Harry Bartlett of Russell,
( Kan. and John Mahoney of Montana Sun
day evening at Ninth and Davenport
! streets Both men move and have their
being on a pair of crutChes. They met for
the first time at the Bradish saloon sun
day evening When things did not go quite
to their liking they Joined forces and
started to change the topography at Ninth
and Davenport streets, making that sec
ton of town appear for a few minutes as
il the wholesale district was moving in,
Patrolman Mccarthy gathered the bellg-
ercnts in and placed the charge of drunk
enness and disturbing the peace by using
loud and profane language and threatening
TO fight against them. In police court the
men alleged they were only gesticulating
with their crutches when arrested.
| Bartlett. 81 and costs; Mahoney, dis