Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-05
BLIND GODDESS
IN POLICE COURT
Some Samples Of Justice as Dis
pensed Upstairs at the
City Hall.
GREY HAIRS DO NOT COUNT Y
Incidents OF Aged Woman and Intii-
vitlual Who Had Tcmcrity to
Ask for Il Jury.

In the 81 and then some, varieties OF
Justice served over the counter IN the
upstairs floor of the police depart
nnent one or two new dishes, or rather
5io old dishes with q new tang to them,
were marked on bll-of- fare docket TO-
day.
There was the dish a la Hardman,
savory tidbtt for the youthful MI. Ros-
ers. and one which he seemed to relish
i because of his power to handle IT.
! s;lIardnan, a man well along in years,
and Of sensible MEN, was accused OF
being drunk. He denied the charge
and asked for jury trial. The fact
that Mr., HardInan wouldn't admit 10
being drunk SO nettled the stalwart NJ q,
Rogers, husky with the strength behind
him, that Mr.. Hartman was given
solar plexus blow. He will have to
wait until Aug, 81 to have it deter
mined whether or not he was drunk
+ yesterday, and unless he leaves $50 IN
the hands of the police in the mean
time he will have to spend that time
in jail The usual fine for drunkenness
is either IS OF. $40. but Mr.. Hartman:
because he peeved the prosecutor VIII
have to put up $50 before he Is permit
ted to prove that he wasn't drunk
5s GRUIF'F TREATMENT.
Common courtesy finds little room in
spolice court justice and the venera-
.5tion for gray hairs of the aged IS
I. marked mainly by it's absence. NJ rs
! q. Cereghino, an elderly matron show
ing the marks OF the. years IN her
bent form, dressed In the black garb OF
nourning and who despite ne grull
refusal Of the court to permit her TO
make any explanation managed to say
that she Is alone in the world, was the
pathetic figure Of the courtroom this
morning when she was called TO ana
;sWer the sSwhat -seemed-t o-be-consider-
ed heinious offense of having failed to
remove garbage form her premises at
752 south Third West street. There
were nine similar eases on the docket,
but Mrs. Cereghino was the only de-
fendAnt to appear. Tho others had a. II
seen Mr.. Rogers by telephone with the
result that as the cases were called
motion for dismissal vas made by the
prosecutor, Mrs. Cereghino, notherly
ana gentle looking, and hardly grasplng
what it all meant except that she was
before the court attempted to explain
that she had left the garbage on her
lot for q day or two when she was
sick, but that she had been all alone
sand could not get anyone to look after
1t. W. 4,
with a gruff wen, don't care for
4 any explanation" the court shut oft
the old woman, and although she
pleaded that the matter might be set
tstled now, this did not suit Mr., Rogers
convenience, and she will have to wait
until Aug. q a
SLAPPED HER ON WRIST.
Mrs. Jane Doe Young. who smilingly
Informed Clerk Clutch that she
would ratler5not tell her real name
with the same smile denied that she
had slapped Helen Cross on the
wrist, or as the complaint in legal
3Serbiage read that "she did then and
there batter the said Helen Cross upon
the arm with her hand p Jane Doe
Young, who lives at Phipps court,
will tell; her side of the story on
Aug. 20: s#
s5 G, Anderson and JIM Gray each
paid SO today for failing to observe
the provisions Of the hitching orr.
sdinanGe.
Charles Jackson was one of the old
gray haired class that the prosecutor
deems a pest" and on the prosec,l-
tors suggestion he was given so days
Rogers Jackson had been guilty of
begging and had put up game
] fight, when the officers tried to ar
4 rest him.
Ed Ray, charged with vagrancy, made
a lightning change in his plea of not
guilty when he saw that his case was
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
he was guilty OF being a vagrant and
the two will keep each other company
on the ties between here and Ogden.
MERCHANTS DISCHARGED
Changing their pleas OF not guilty to
4 guilty of having violated the Sunday
3 closing ordinance by keeping their
stores open on the Sabbath, and with
the promise that they would observe
the law in the future, Ben 5Raino and
H. Rosen'bloom, two of the merchants
arrested at the instance of the Retail
+ Clerks association, were discharged this
morning by Judge Bowman. The nier-
chants were represented in court by
Atty. C. 3 Diehl, and Asst CITY Atty.
Rogers made the motion for their dis
Inissal.
STRENUOUS COLLECTING.
George and Jim Ilatsepotes, found
guilty of having battered fellow
Greek, George Rafias, were sentenced
this morning to pay a fine of s25 each
The row. according 10 the evidence, be-
gan over the collection of a debt and
In the argument the Katsepotes swung
chair on the head of Railas.
Mrs Il. A. Flemiugs informed the