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The St. Paul Daily Globe, August 5, 1884, p. 2


POLICE COURT DOINGS.


A Youth Accused of Larceny by His Father.


"So you were full, were you, and took it by mistake," rejoined hizzoner to the plea of Ole Anderson when arraigned before the bar of the police court yesterday. "That is the way with you fellows," continued the court; "you swell up on tanglefoot and then when you get into mischief you charge it all to the booze; oh, the misery and sin and abject vice and want and sorrow, thou hydra-headed fury and foe to mankind, the curse of this same old booze, is laid at thy door to account for." John Anderson, My Joe John, hung his shaggy head and he must have felt sorry. He had been blind drunk and while in this condition, he nailed a coat on Rosabel street. He will grub stumps and roots in Como park for the next thirty days.

Sam Gibson, a lean, lank youth who looks as if his joints hadn't fairly settled yet, and M. W. Jameson, a much older man, were up on the charge of holding a man up and "touching" him to the tune of $25. The alleged offense took place in a saloon on Mississippi street, and young Gibson's father made the complaint. It is a spoiled kettle of fish all the way through. The larceny case was continued until to-day.

It was a quiet Monday in the police court, the cases mostly consisting of a few common brawls.

John Sherman, the terror of the patch in the Sixth ward, and John Tharilmeyer were charged with disorderly conduct. They engaged in a scrap Sunday night, during which stones were used freely and a slung shot was flourished. It appeared yesterday that Sherman had been the aggressor, and he was sent out to saw wood for thirty days. The other man was discharged.

Pat Ball, a son of the old dirt, and C. Connelly met by chance in lower town, and with the true ardor of a fighting man stimulated with booze, Pat had dared the other fellow to knock the chip from his shoulder. The challenge was accepted and they sailed in on the good old fashioned style. They had black eyes and emsanguined bugles to show for the affair, and they each gracefully accepted ten days in the bastile.

Frank Stolp is a crank who delights in making it lively for his neighbors, and he was put under bonds to keep the peace.

A couple of vags who had been yanked out of a box car were sent out for ten days each, and O. Cross and L. R. Donnelly were also charged with vagrancy. A gun was found on Cross, so he went out for five days, his pall being ordered to step out of town.


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