Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-03
UNIQUE ! Plea By
SWISS BURGLAR n Al
.1Was Kinda Shot Up Saw an.
Open Door and lust
Went In.
POLICE COURT GLEANINGs'.
Large Assortment of Plain and Fancy
Offenders Who Give Divers ES-
cuscs for Their Appearance.

4 y . s fr- . e d 1 .
cuscs for Their Appearance
Although Frank Trash is a Swiss
with but limited vocabulary Of the
English. he is we'll up in the argot OF
the police court room. IN his plea OF
guilty to the charge of burglary II
The third degree, his only excuse was
that at the time OF the offcnse he was
kinda shot.up, the bullets, in his YER
nacular, being ''high-balls
Trash entered the home Of Gust slnT-
1iotls on July 80 and was ought in the
act Of ritling a trunk. The Greek
chased tho marauder a couple of blocks
before the latter fell into the arms OF
Patrolmn Pitts. This morning Trash
was willing to plead guilty to anything
charged against him. saying that he re-
mei11bered that he was kinda shot up
$and when he$saw an open door he Went
fin.,ss&gs.
Under his plea Of guilty he was bound
over to the district court under 5000
bail. Unable to provide this sum, he
was given into the keeping Of sherlh
Sharp.
LA CkED{ a. SIGN.
f. Ensgns neglect to put placard
Sor ISL gr5 on his wagon. along With MS
license number, telling what he used
the wagon for. cost him So this morn
Ing. TheEcharge against him was d =
njtied by the title violation OF the
license ordinance, and he pleaded.
guilty to the more plebian didn't have
2 a sign on his wagon Judge Bowman
assessed a fine Of ST.
uNHlTCIIED TEAMS.
George Preston, 4, A. shanfelt. Bud
I Foreman all paid 81 into the city funds
this morning for the privilege Of leay-
ing their teams unhitched on the public
streets. They forfeited the money
rather than make excuse to the court.
which would have resulted in the coll
lection Of the bail money anyway
PLAYFUL BRlCKLAYER.
Harry Johnson's stomach troubled
! him so much yesterday morning that he
had to quit his work Of piling one brick
on top of another. with mortar in be-3
tween. aud then he really didn't know
what happened. Asst. City Atty, Rog-
ers refreshed Johnson's hazy memory
Z by recalling the circumstance of how
q the bricklayersS had gone home and
chased his wife around the yard in a.
way that was hard y a playful romp.s
4 johnson could hardly remember that
part of 1T, or perhaps didn't want to
minder in the shape of a tenor ten
meaning $40 or 10 days Instead Of
laying bricks, Johnson will break rocks
for 10 days.
GOOD q UESSER.
4 Nels Eckstead guessed that maybe
he had disturbed the peace OF the vi
4ilnitY OF First South and West Temple
streets last night. His guess was good.
after Asst. City Atty. Rogers told what
he had been told about the case, and
Judge Bowman's answer was $40 Or 10
days, According to the relayed story.
and as told by the prosecutor, Eckstead
had got drunk, lin fact. very, Very
drunk then when they tried to get him
to go horne instead he went into a
saloon and tanked uI, some more
After Judge bowman glanced at the
docket ana saw that Eckstead had $40
bail up, a fine OF SO was promptly Inn.
posed: III
Y BUSY coLoRED LADY.
The strenuous efforts Of Mrs. Cor
5pelius Smith, coored, in an endeayor.
to save her husband. failed lnfserably5
this morning, for neither her word nor
that of her husband tipped the balance
of the police court Justice scales with
Detective Howell on the other side,
Detective Howell peace was seriously
disturbed yesterday br seeing Smith
strike ali old soldier and by hearing him
curse. Smith assured the court that he
had not struck the man who has been a
good friend of his and had done nothing
out of the way: The wife, when she
learned that witnesses We're wanted,
went ON the rush to get the man sup
posed to have been assaulted, and
brought back the word that he would
come and testify for her husband If he
was sent for. That didn't satisfy the
Court, who showed little more than
usua. irascih!lity and impatience at the
earneStness OF the wife. and all CONVEX
8sation, Was shut off with the inNolun-
$tary $50 or 10 days
4 PRoMPTER GETS BUSY.
After James Rowan, colored, not
knowing the ropes had blundered and
after Prosecutor Rogers had grown
real peevish over the blunder, Officer
Gurran game to the rescue this morn
ing, and With fine police tact, Ceiling
8 wl1atisswhatl, Strengthened matters out.
Rowan had missed part OF his Lesson
and did not understand that when he
WAS accused OF being a. vagrstnt his
answer was To be Yes" and the pro-
mise that he would leave the city. In.
stead he protested that he was a hard
working man until he got a sore leg
The stupidity of the scholar in the
school of the Salt Lake police nettletl
the youthful monitor Mr.. Rogers. and
he wanted to sec Rowan kept III jail
until Aug. 10 under the impossible nail
I Of $500, tjust for being .. va grant. Of
ficer Curan, however. had a little talk
+ with the defendant and In something
of Triumphant spirit impaired the in