Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-05
BLIND GODDESS
IN POLICE COURT D |
Some Samples Of Justice as Dis.
pensed Upstairs at the
B City Hall.
GREY HAIRS DO ! NOT o. COUNT G . 7
incidents of Aged Woman and Intl oil
vidunl Who Had 1'cmerity to s a
Ask for "a Jury.

In the 81, and then some, varieties Of
Justice served over the counter In the
up. stairs floor Of the police depart
g nrlent one or two new dishes. or rather
old dishes with a new tang to them,
were marked on bill-of. fare docket to-
Z. day.
There was the dish a la Hartman. "a
\ sayory tidbit for the youthful Mr. Rog-
ers. and one which he seemed to relish
because OF his power to handle it..
lIard1nan, a man well along In years
and Of sensible ;nieil was accused of
being drunk He denied Gthe charge
and asked for ID jury trial. The fact
that Mr., Hardman wouldn't admit tp
being drunk so nettled the stalwart Mr..
Rogers, husky with the strength behind
him, that Mr.. Hardnan was given a
solar plexus blow He viii have to
wait until Aug. 81 to have 1t deter
mined whether or not he was drunk
yesterday, and unless he leaves $50 in
the hands OF the police in the mean
d time ne will have to spend that time
y in jail. The usual fine for drunkenness
IL either IS or 10. but Mr.. Hare man
because he peeved the prosecutor Will
a have to put UP $50 before he is permit
ted to prove that he wasn't drunk
csRtIF'F, TREATMENT.
Common courtesy finds little room in
4 police court justice and the venera-
5ss ton for gray hairs of the aged is
n marked mainly by its absence g. FRS
S q. iC,eregh ino, an elderly matron show
4 Ing the marks of the years In her
bent form, dressed In the black garb Of
mourning; and All no d espite the grnff
refusal 81 the court to permit her to
make any exp lanati Ion managed to say
that she Is alone In the world. was the
pathetic figure OF the courtroom this
Al morning when she was ca He'd to an
swer the Nv hat-seemed-to- bc-cOnside
ed heInious offense of having failed to
remove garbage form her premises mt
752 south Third West street There
were nine similar cases 1.-The docket I,
but Mrs. Cereghino was the only de-
fendant to appear Tho others had all
seen Mr.. Rogers by telephone with the
result that as the cases were called q!
motion for dismissal was made by the
prosecutor Mrs. Gereg Chino, niotherly.
II and gentle looking, and hard " grasping
& what 1T all mean t except that she was
III that she had loft the garbage on her
/ lot for a day or two when she was;
81 sick. but that she had been al alone
y and could not get anyone TO look after
with a gruf wen, i don't care for
B the old woman, and although she
pleaded that the matter might be set
III fled now, this did not suit Mr.. Rogers
convenience, and she will have to wait
Il Unit Aug a 5$s
81, APPEp HER ON WRIST.
Mrs Jane Doe x Dung, who smilingly
would rathersnot tell her real name,t'S.
with the same smile denied that she
had slapped Helen Gross on the
wrist, or as the comp laint IN legal
Nerbiage read that "she did then and
there batter the said Helen Gross ION
the arm With her hand. !" Jane Doe
Young, who ives at 5 Phipns court,
will tell her side of the story on
a. Anderson and j. M. Gray each
paid so today for failing to observe.
a the provisions of the hitching orr.
;sdinance. Il sl4,
Charles acksonlswas one Of the old
gray haired class that the prosecutor
deems ..pests and on the prosecu-
n tors suggestion he WIS given 30 days
In the city jai. According to Mr..
Rogers Jackson had been guilty of
begging and had put IN a game
& flght,,' when the officers tried to ar
rest him. IA st 4. n 5fs
Ed Ray, charged with yagrancy, made
Il lightning change in his plea Of not
guilty when he saw that his case was
4 going to- he set sometime late in the
month. and hurriedly made up his mind
that it would be better to leave town
than stay in the Salt Lake City jail.
Martin Monroe knew from the first that
lat
the two will keep each other company
on the ties between here and Ogden.
MERCHANTS DISCHARGED,
Changing their pleas Of not guilty to
guilty Of having violated the Sunday
closing ordinance by keeping their
stores open on The Sabbath. and with
the promise that they would observe
the law in the future. Ben Raino and
III RosenlbIoom, two of the merchants
arrested at the instance of the Retail
E@ Clerks association, were discharged this
morning by Judge Bowman. The mer-
chants We're represented in court by
Atty. C. 3D. Diefl, and Asst. CITY Atty.
Rogers made the motion for their dis
nlissal 5
STRENUOUS COLLECTING.
George and Jim Katsepotes,@ found
guilty Of having battered u fellow
Greek, George Ratlas, were sentenced
this morning to pay a fine of SIS each
The row, according to the evidence. be-
L gan over the collection of a debt and
in the argument the ISatsepotes swung
a chair on the head of Ratlas..
Mrs. r. a. Flemings informed the
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