Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-04
JUDGE DIEHL IS
GIVEN A TOKEN
Retiring Police Justice the Recipi-
ent Of Handsome Watch
Fob This Morning.
J. M. BOWMAN SUCCEEDS HIM
Last session Marked by judicial Glenn
cncy and Exchange of Oratory
And Good Wishes

Tho last session Of tho criminal div-
sion OF the city court at which judge
G.. b. Dichl presided. was held this
morning. beginning shortly after 10
o'clock. After a service OF about 10
years al the old police department
headquarters. Judge Diehl stepped
down and out and at noon was sue
ceeded by Judge NJ Bowman. who.
with Judge whitaker. was elected al
| the last contest at the polls. Judge
/ Bowman opened court and then adj
/ iourned untn tomorrow morning at 10
O'Clock when he will have his first real
session.
Tho last session OF Judge Diehls
court was an occasion for remarks OF
congratuiation good wishes and re-
/ grets. Congratulations for the manner
In which the retiring official had con-
Quoted affairs OF the court over which
he presided for SC long; good wishes for
his future, and the success Of Judge
Bowman. and regrets that the associa-
lions formed during Judge Diehl's in
! cumbancy In office are now at an end,
In an official way.
After the regular city call had been
/ disposed Of. and just before court ad-
/ 1oruned, Assist. City Atty. r.. A. Rogers
arose and addressed the court on be-
half OF the department. attorneys and
newspaper men who have been associ-
| atcd with Judge Diehl for many years.
II have one more motion to make.
said ne. and I do not think 10 will be
opposed by anyone. wish to make
motion OF thanks TO your honor for
| your uniform courtesy and kindness on
behalf Of the many friends YOU have
made here. and with the wish that your
] future win be happy and prosperous.
ON behalf Of these friends ! desire 10
present TO your honor this token OF our
love, respect an desteem."
PRESENTATION MADE.
Mr Rogers then presented TO Judge
Diehl handsome gold watch fob from
which was suspended a gold thirty
second degree Masonic charm.
IL was several minutes before Judge
Diehl could reply.
Il can only say this" he said finally,
! II have made many good friends and
/ have been happy In that / have kept
/ them. My associations here have been
most pleasant. Members of the depart
ment the attorneys and gentlemen Of
the press have been my friends and
have so been tied up with me In my
daily and official life that regret very
much the severance For this beautiful
/ charm I most heartily thank them and
/ shall wear IT with much honor. with
/ good feeling and good viii. and I trust
/ that Judge Bowman, who succeeds me,
| VIII leave here. when he does leave
I with the same expressions OF friend
I ship, respect and honor as I leave"
Atty. William Newton on behalf OF
the bar. court attaches and newspaper
men. said:
Il desire to say a few words OF
/ thanks and Of regrets. and / believe
everyone will voice my sentiments.
/ We regret that your honor Is about
/ to leave us but Of course you are not
going far away and I hope those as
s0ciations will continue both I'm and
out OF the court I desire TO thank you
| for the clever I say clever because /
mean IT, discernment that your honor
has shown between the unfortunate
and the criminal"
SUNDAY DRINKS FORGIVEN.
Judge Diehl was in mercifu frame
Of mind this morning and Il Is per-
haps the first time that sunday
/ drunks" have escaped a fine of S. or
| kind that were discharged. and only
| one wherein sentence was imposed,
and that was In the case Of Ellen
/ Shoppe, who has been n source OF
/ great annoyance 10 tho police. She
was given 30 days but the sentence
| was regarded by Judge Diehl as an act
Of mercy as the woman has no place
20 go, and on account OF her physical
condition can not remain IN tho county
inflrmary
VAGS DISCHARGED.
Six men. charged with vagrancy. and
who had pleaded guilty, were given
| some good sound advice and discharg-
| ed with the admonition 20 do better
Ia the future. Five Migrants who were
! released Saturday on a suspended sem
tnce were sentenced % 90 days In the
city jail. but as they have left the City
the men viii not have 10 serve out
the time unless they return.
ELGIN co. FINED.
Tho Elsin Creamery company, found
guilty q few days ago on the charge
of selling milk without a license. was
fined S25, but a stay was granted until
wednesday as the company may de-
sire 20 appeal the case
The case Of Mike Negro. a foreign
err who was arrested Friday az noon
/ for shooting al f-year-od boy named
Hilton on Fifth West and Second
South street was continued without
date upon motion OF Assistant City
| Attorney Rogers who represents tho
man. Negro was released on a bond
OF $500