Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-14
IOTTN|E|LL GUILTY
SAYS THE COURT
He Refused to Aid Patrolrnnn Tyler.
Who Was Dragging II Woman
by Her Hair.
the sextet. George ottN

or the seXtet, George Ottweill, j..
q. Miller, j. 4 Matters, Harry Austin,
w.. s. Terry and II. Il. Silver, who.
were arrested on the charge Of interfer.
Ing with Patroman Tyler after they.
had objected to his brutality towards
Mary Jones, whom he had placed uii-i
DEF. arrest, only one was found guilty
after an ali days trial yesterday Off,
WELLS resentment to- seeing a husky
police officer drag & even a drunken wo-
man by the hair brought him decision
of guilty of having interfcred with an
Officer, Rut the other defendants WEEP
discharged because of the insufficiency
OF the complaining witness assuring
testimony. In the case of one of them
the only substantiating evidence the
officer could offe, in his charge of re79
&sistance was that he had asked the
man to assist him and the defendant
had replied that he wouldn't help any
- that beat a woman. The
time for sentence in Ottwelll's case was
set for tomorrow morning.
Il. G. Lewis and "A. Cowell, the twa
wayfarers arrested last night within
the limits OF the old stockade, and WIN
refused to take the special Watchinan'ss
word for IL that the stockade lisa thing
of the past, were called for trial before
Judge Bowman this morning on the
charge Of trespassing. Cowell forfeit-s
ed $40 ball, and Lewis had an excuse
based on Oblivion" That earned him a.
decrease. of So.
When the case Of A. b Altree,
charged with violation of the city
ordinances by conducting a salary loan
office without the proper license, was
called this morning City Atty. Rogers
asked that it be dismissed because of
of evidence. The prose
charges made could not be substanti-$
ated, and the court granted the mos
ton. a si55is #. u
this morning Judge Bowman dismissed
the case against Henry Smith. charged
with perjury, alleged to have been
committed in Justice of the Peace
Stanley A. Hanks court. The defend-
ant through counsel demurred to the
complaint, and Asst County Atty.
Aaron Myers admitted to the court this
murrer We're well taken, and asked
that the case he dismissed.
A. Nj Redding, accused Of having
'ernbezzled $3.50 9from the California Elk
pert Cleaning company, was arraigned
before Judge Bowman this morning
and took the statutory time in which
3toplead.
Robert c. Johnson charged with the
theft Of q suit of clothes from William
S. Berger, was arraigned this morning
and asked further time in which to
plead, He will enter his plea to-
morrow.
NOT SUFFICIENTLY PROVOKED.
Judge Bowman So Holds III Two
Cases 1'lils Morning.
The word spropocation," was worked
overtime in the police court this morn
ing. 1t figured IN two cases, one
against w. H Gerke charged with
having disturbed the peace of Ben r..
Ball by calling him names in front OF
the Kenyon hotel in the midst Of a
crowd, and the other against Henry
Frey, charged with heaving stone
with such accuracy Of aim that it land
ed on the back Of the head of c. +.
Ward Gerke, however, wasn't permits
ted to show the provocation for his
act, and was fined SIS. while in the case
of Frey the court held that he hadn't
been given sufficient proyocation to ex-
.cuse the stone throwing. In the lat
ter case however, the sentence was
continued 80 days on the showing that