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JOHN PETER IN HOC AGAINiTHIS TilffE HE HAD ONLY ONE JAG TO ACCOUNT FOR.With One Other Offender He Goes to the Bus tile—News of Police Court and Police.*j 'Judge Dreibelbiss had a pretty fair ■audience at police court this morning, but it was not nearly what it j should have been, considering that 1 the Fourth of July was pretty busy and hadn’t yet a very fbig start in lunning. John Peter, the butcher, whose last appearance was after he tried to put the Assyrian colony, on Spy Hun avenue, out of business with a cheese knife last winter, was the first to answer rthe roll call. He admitted to having been drunk, but thought that inasmuch as it was so soon alter independence day, some allowance should /he made. The judge -said the allowance should- 'be about II days and Mr. ‘Peter went over. On a previous occasion John Dougal! appeared as Peter’s attorney and succeeded in 'having the glorious bird of vietory perch on his banner. This mjorning he disregarded the appealing glances of his erstwhile client aud 'busied himself in studying the crop statistics from. New Zealand until after sentence was pronounced.Ed Babel, who was Peter’s partner in the jamboree, entered a like plea, but offered no mitigating circumstances. He plead guilty -and let It go at that anil he caught the same kind of a package when the judge got ready *to make -the distribution.
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 07, 1902
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