, 1922-08-03
LIVELY SESSION
Of POLICE COURT
HEAVY FINES ASSESSED FOR CARRYING
CONCEALED WEAPONS. POR-
TER'S TALE OF WOE

Police Justice Dunlap, VINO mas
; been out of the city for the past
week, returned to find several cases
awaiting trial before him and on
Monday afternoon held court in the
city hall and disposed Of three of
them. The first two were men who
were accused Of having been found
-, and both were newcomers who were
brought here by the railroad COM
pany to fill the places of striking
shopmen:
The first defendent was Frank
Pollock, whose offense dates back to
the gath, on which evening he came
outside the stockade and was greeted
by a number of local men, who, ac-
cording to Pollock applied c
plimentary epithets to him. This,
however, had no bearing on the is
sue for he pleaded guilty to having
displayed a revolver and to having
had it concealed on his person, but
told a long story in extenuation. He
was fined $50 and 80 days in the
city Jail. The later part of the sent
ence was RENTED during exemplary
behavior and the gun confiscated.
william J. Mckee attempted to en-
ter a plea Of guilty to the same &C.
VuS0tAOA, DUt "oo oPpoA SHSAy ~ SoA
fused hat at the suggestion of City
Attorney Roster, a plea Of not guilty
was substituted and The witness al
lowed to tell his story. This was to
the effect that he and a pal had
shipped" at Chicago and that upon
arriving at Rawlins had attempted
to buy some o~veralls before going to
work, but were denied at the COM
pany store until they had some time
in. Then the two took a revolver
and started across the tracks to
pawn it in order to buy the neces-
sary working clothes. Mckee was ar
rested on the concealed weapon
charge, although his side partner ad-
mitted ownership of the gun, which
he had ~cleverly gotten into McKee's
possession at a critical time. De-
PENDANT was fined $50 and 80 days
in Jail and as in the former instance
the Jail sentence was suspended dur
ing good behavior.
A Porter's Troubles
James Arlington, m Of the few
Pullman porters whose front name
is not George, was before the court
on a charge of disturbing the peace,
filed at the instigation Of the train
conductor on No. 10 who wired
ahead Sunday night to have a special
agent at the depot to take him into
custody. This service was per-
formed by Special Agent Fitzgerald.
who told the Judge what happened at
the time the train pulled in and Of
how the porter declined to come
down from his perch on the platform
and ran into the car calling on some
OF the passengers for help.
The officers story was short and to
the point but when it came AIRING
tons turn to be heard in his own de-
Tense he injected quite a bit Of COM
edy into the situation, without in the
least intending to do 80. He proved
to be a regular speechmaker and
unfolded a long tale, which began at
Chicago, where he took his departure
and ended at Rawlins where he took
his medicine. 10 seems that he had
turned on the steam in his car in
order to satisfy some Of the FROST
bitten passengers and had forgotten
TO turn it off. The train conductor
came along and noticing the unwont-
ed heat, chided James for his ex-
travagance, at the same time shak-
ing his finger in the porter's face.
James resented this and talked sassy
to the august conductor. who
informed him that at the next station
he would be met by a reception COM
mittee and relieved from further
berth-making and s~hoe-shining for
the trip and perhaps for life. The
conductor quieted down but sent the
wire and James resumed his porterial
duties, considering the incident
closed.
Buffaloed By Cowboys.
In passing through Cheyenne, whore
the. Frontier days celebration WA in
progress, the hero OF this episode.
who had cleaned his knowledge of
the Wild and wolly west from the
lurid movies, saw from the Pullman
platform all the cowboys In the
world with their 4-gallon hats and
other regalia and shuddered ct the
very thought Of what he had heard
these fellows would do to Q tender
foot colored boy, Just In fun rope
him, brand him, hog-tie him and
drag him st the end OF . rope-and
all that.
So when the train stopped at Ray
Tins and Mr.. Fitzgerald told him to
some down Oft the vestibule n list
en- to . little conversation, James
demarred and said that any confer
enee would be held inside the car,
Il n all. He had see q number OF
<-9atAon hats, which some Of the
railroad officers who stood In b
offing xero wearing, and he thought
the eowpunchsfs were after him. He
admitted he was Just naturally scared
stiff and assigned this asa reason for
running away and declihing to GONE
forth until dragged ont:.' JustieA was
tempered with mercy In the case OF
Mr.. Pullman's boy. He was fined $40
and no costs and is now on his way
back to Chicago to tell the superin-
tendent and get his old job back.