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Ottumwa Daily Courier
Friday, 2 January 1903


         Fifteen Days Each
         
         BELLE BROWN and PEARL SIMMONS, the two women
       arrested Wednesday night on the charge of con-
       ducting a house of ill fame, were last evening
       tried in police court, found guilty, and given
       a sentence of fifteen days in jail apiece.
       ROBERT BROWN, the husband of the first named
       woman, was arrested last evening during his
       wife's trial, and jailed on the charge of va-
       grancy. He is said to have admitted to the po-
       lice when arrested that he had been making his
       living during the past two months in this city
       by gambling. He had about $50 in his pocket
       when arrested, together with a good supply of
       dice. This morning he was given ten days at
       labor, and preferred to "lay out" the sentence
       rather than pay his fine. JIM BURTON who was
       arrested last night on the charge of disturb-
       ing the peace and fighting a woman in a Smoky
       Row brawl, pleased not guilty to the charge
       and his trial will be this evening.
       
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