The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-15
OLD MAN WHO.
LOST HIS
MONEY
CLAIMS HE WAS ROBBED BY TWO
STRANGERS.
Another Old Man, 7s Years Of Age,
Brought to Court Charged With
Mendicancy.

The police court was crowded with
variety of offenders charged with
robbery. drunkenness. vagrancy, lewd
conduct, disturbing the peace and
mendicancy. The ages OF the offend
ers ranged from IL to near four-score.
A number of stiff sentences we're i'm
posed. while with some the court was
inclined to be lenient, especially those
of advanced years.
John Brennan and f. A. Moore
were charged with vagrancy, to
which each pleaded not guilty. Off
GERS Hadlock and Chambers testified
that the men had been seen in the
toilet room of the Union Station with
an old man who was under the infiu-
ence of liquor, and who afterward as
serted to the officers that the men
had robbed him of $40 or more. The
men had been arrested near the sta
tion while engaged in emptying bot.
tie of beer.
The defendants testified that they
had been asked by the old man to buy
bottle of whiskey and that he had
given them a dollar with which to get
1t They had gone up town. but were
unable to secure the liquor and still
had the old mans money In their pos
session, which they intended TO return
to him. The court stated that the
charge of vagrancy had not been prov
ed, and, although he considered the
defendants at fault in being mixed
up with a drunken individual whom
anyone might have robbed, he would
~ n 4I.y al
Adolph Webber pleaded guilty to a
charge of drunkenness and was Civ
en- the customary fine of IS or five
days
George Hoggerty, Dan McCarty and
Thomas Canning were charged with
yagrancy. They pleaded guilty in
each case and arresting officers testi-
fed that the boys had been ordered
out of town, but that they had refused
TO comply with the instructions. The
court then sentenced them to the
light punishment of five days each in
consideration of their apparent youth.
G. W. Carroll. a tottering old man
of rs years. was charged with men
delaney With quivering chin, the
aged defendant admitted his guilt, and
the arresting officer, Crompton, was
asked regarding the matter. He stat
ed that the old man had recently been
ordered out Of Cheyenne, from which
point he had gone to Salt Lake, and
a day later had arrived in Ogden. The
officer stated that Carroll had been
found on the Bench where he had
made himself obnoxious by entering
houses. expectorating on the floor and
otherwise making himself at home. "
When searched at the station, a SO
gold field was found in one of his
shoes and other sums amounting to
gold piece was found in one of his
The court stated that he did not like
to sentence the old man and that the
money he possessed would take him
on his way. Carroll was then dis.
charged.
Alonzo Haddy, charged with leaving
his team united ON the street, plead
ed guilty and received the usual fine
OF S5 or five days.
John Doe" forfeited like amount
for similar offense, by not appearing
in answer TO the call.
Alma Jones, charged with disturb
ing the peace. did not appear and his
absence was ordered investigated.
Willis Pearsal, colored, and John
Doe Bergman. were arraiGned sep
arately on charges of disturbing the
peace by fighting Each pleaded gull.
ty and were given fines of So or five
dayS