KinSource - Tale of the Week - A Thrifty Domestic

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Minnesota Tales

The St. Paul Globe, April 26, 1885, p. 2

A THRIFTY DOMESTIC.

Caught in a Garret at Midnight -- Riff-Raff.

It was a cold, dismal Saturday in the police court and the atmosphere of the bull pen was muggy.

Among the sinners first came John Brown. The immortal Brown had been on a bit of a bat Friday night and a copper ran him in as a suspicious character. It transpired yesterday that he is a well-known saloonkeeper, having been in business four years, and the laugh was rather on the copper. He was fined ten bills for being full.

Anna Gruber will have to stop her petty thieving or she will some of these fine days land in the penitentiary. She was up again yesterday on the charge of larceny from the family of a Mr. Davis. Last Thursday she secured employment as a domestic, and about midnight the family were aroused by some one prowling around in the garret. Mr. Davis went upstairs and he caught Anna in the act of going through his wife's wardrobe. She had already selected a few silk dresses and things, and a lot of laces were found concealed under the bed. The thrifty young person was given some capital advice by Judge Burr and sentenced to ninety days in the workhouse.

Simon Abram, a Sam'l of Posen horse trader, was upon the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. It appears that Simon sold a man a horse and that he represented the animal as sound, whereas it turned out to be a knock-kneed, wind-galled, spavined and in short, all broke up. The hearing was continued to the 27th.

Frederick Morrisette and Albert Shaw were charged with laying in wait for Matthew Cuff and putting a French roof over his optic. It transpired that Matthew had given the boys some uncalled-for abuse and they proceeded to thrash him. It cost them fifteen bills each.

John Schneider had been singing Wait till the Bulldog Dies, Jennie, on the street, and he went out for ten days.

Martin Flannery undertook to make a distillery of himself and he was given the rush for thirty days.