Police Court Grind
The Fort Dodge Messenger: Jan. 21, 1907
Police Court Grind
Nine Offenders Cower Before Mayor. Cripple Lucky – Vags Will Labor on Streets.
Nine men picked up by the officers Saturday night and Sunday filled the jail to overflowing and made a big line up for police court this morning. Drunks and vags proved to be the roles of the offenders.
Martin Anderson and Nels Johnson, two graders on the new electric line, were charged five eighty five for their jags.
Frank Miles, Frank Davis and J. Boland were given sentences of ten days at hard labor on the city streets, the first two for vagrancy and the last for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
“Let’s see there, you. You’re a cripple, I believe,” said the mayor, pointing out a man in the crowd who was charged with vagrancy and who gave his name as John Giles. The man significantly held up a stump of arm from which hung an empty sleeve. “Your misfortune saves you,” said the mayor. “I’ll let you go.”
Two man named Knudson and Earley were fined the regulation dollar and costs. Another, named Moran, was let go.
Tags: 1907, Anderson, Boland, Davis, Earley, Giles, Johnson, Knudson, Miles
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