Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-21
MORE SUNDAY LAW FINES
Dollar and Costs Melted Out to Several
Alleged Offenders.
NO JURY TRIALS IN POLICE COURT
where Cases Are Appealed Daniel
Says Decision in District Court
shall he the Precedent
for Him.

violators Of Sunday blue laws again
thronged the police court room Friday
morning, laundrymen, cigar dealers, mes
senger boys, photographers. pool room
operators, confectionery men. Those fined
We're: II. Vackenson, selling papers and
cigars. 2sS5 Sherman avenue; Joseph
Brougtton, operating pool room and SELL
ing cigars, Hs North Sixteenth street; W. a.
Keyt 1878 Capitol avenue. selling cigars
c. c. Cannan, lO7 North Sixteenth street,
selling candy and cigars; II. L. Welsh 1922
North Sixteenth street selling cigars and
candy B. Harding. 1873 Douglas street,
operating pool room and selling cigars, s.
]. Cussick. 1904 South Twenty fourth street,
running pool room and selling cigars and
tobacco; David Rourke, 2l5 South Fifteenth
street, selling cigars; Charles jacobson, AIS
North Twenty-fourth street, selling tobacco
and cigars.
All OF these were fined 81 and costs They
were represented by the same attorney.
who demanded IN each case a trial by fury,
which was overruled by Judge Crawford
who held that under the statutes in cities of
metropolitan class a jury cannot be de-
manded in cases before the police court
Notice was given that all Of the cigar and
pool room cases would be appealed to the
district court and tried before a jury.
Cleaning Buggy Necessary.
Robert Wood was discharged on a COM
plant charging him with cleaning his
buggy on Sunday, the Judge holding that to
be necessary labor Wing Sing, a Chinese
laundryman arrested for washing and iron
ing clothes on Sunday. pleaded not guilty.
Me no washie; just sprinkle" he said.
The judge set his case for Saturday
morning in order to have the officer who
made the discovery appear in court. When
Wing Sing was told to come back to court
Saturday morning for trial he asked to
change his plea to guilty and was allowed
to ray a fine OF 81 and costs. D. J. Mar
tell a photographer at 612 North Sixteenth
street, admitted he had taken several pic
lures Sunday in his gallery but told the
Judge he was a Seventh Day Adventist
and was not in the habit Of observing the
day commonly known as the Sabbath He
said he observed Saturday and kept his
place closed on that day, whereupon he
was discharged.
Messenger IL Fined.
George Crow Of the Hurry Up Messenger
service was fined 81 and costs for carrying
messages on Sunday. He failed to show
the labor he performed was necessary. Ed
Beeman of the A. u. T. messenger service
was ulbClldEBeus he was dtlehteu TOT car
rying a message for the Western Union, but
upon the showing that the message was
an important one the judge held it was
necessary labor.
-Warrants We're sworn out Friday morn
ing for the Unrest OF Frank Phelps for
selling admission tickets TO the Krug thea
ter Sunday; William Byrne. for selling
tickets at the Orpheum; Parnell Mangan
of the Boyd and Fred Pluler Of the Bur
wood for the same offense.
Wherever cases are appealed to the dis
trct court" said City Prosecutor Daniel,
Il will not arrest others in the same line
Of business for working on Sunday until
the cases appealed have been settled and
then will be guided in the future by the
| decision of the cases appealed l will make
one exception to that rule, however, and
that is where the appellants pursue dila-
tory tactics and attempt 10 evade a speedy
trial"