Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-12-03
Police Office.

The three Scanps and the Loco FOco Pu5Hcan.-
On Tuesday night, three thorough bred scamps
dropt in at the porter-house Of Benedict Welty-
which is dgnifed with the title Of the Van buren,
Head, and adorned with portrait of the Little Dla-
gcian which by the way the landlords wife declares
shall never be removed while she lives, and there
called for something to drink. The drink was
brought, and various sarmises made by the three
seamps as to the falling fortunes and fading popua.
rity Little Vansli Of which greatly enraged COED
Master Benedict Welty, and SO worked upon the
temper of his little fat wife, that she Left the
in a huff Now this was the very thing the three
scamps wanted, for Of the trio Immediately CALI
ed good Master Benedict Welty 10 the stove and
gagged his attention. whilst his colleagues removed
ali the deposits from small box wherein the careful
Mistress Welty had snugly deposited enc hundred
and twenty dollars in specie-she good careful soul
sistency and her husbands politics at the time
The three scsmps having scared the booty, paid
for their drinks and made themselves scarce. So
soon as they were gone, back came Mistress
Welty to the bar, and twinkling she dis
covered the loss. or coarse she threw all the
blame on good Master Welty, and insisted ON his
going in pursuit Of the robbers. This he did, rad
overlook them too, aye, and seized one but he had
not got the money, on which the sturdy publican
let him 30 and got another, WHO in his turn swore II
was not him. Jast at this critical point of time, a
woman saw the third scamp throw something into
the street, which proved to be the deposes Of good
Master Benedict Wclty A hue aad cry was then
raised and The three scimps all arrested and plac ed
in the Watch House. Tn, next day they were
brought before the magistrate. who deemed the facts
sufficient presumption of guilt to commit the tn zee
scamps for trial. Their names are James Gallagher,
Charles Mann, and William Simmons. The strang-
est part of this story is that when the three scamps
were in the custody OF the ndeiatgaoies, the lar
Mistress Welty pointed her finger very signif eant!y
at the scamp, aad said :" All, knew you were arter
no good, when you began TO ru ndown little Natty"
Getting Uatch.-Jack Matthews, a negro losfer,
was charged with having stolen gold watch, from
the house Of gentleman where he had been admitted
to clean boots. The proof adduced was that the
gro had tried to rid himseloi the watch, ny making
!" a capp" with Yankee auctioneer, for winter
Goa, and eisht dollars in money. The Yankee auc-
toaeer put the watch mp for sale, and the robbery
was discovered. The negro was fully committed.
Anotho Paper ssissd unimcfuHyZA Mr.. Jonas
M Ball. who - does brsiness"a at ll6 South street,
came TO the office TO ask for a warrant to arrest
mere hant for 81 Forgery"
"what has been forged, ;" said the Magistrate.
that paper" exhibiting piece Of n $, ofwhieh
the following is faithful Transcript
New YoRk, August 1910.
sir-Pssse 10 deliver to j. D. Duncan or barrier One
Hundred Dollars in Liquor, and oblIgc
rours, II. c. LISesLs.
Accented (rrD,EsED) Pay the bearer the
Angus. g. 4. Highly. within and sbige yours,
per y. P. MoosE. > ID. DtscAs.
The magistrate having perussd this singular doc
urent asked Mr.. Ball which part Of IL was forged.
why sir said the gentlemsu. that's not forgery
but you had an order, OF which that IS copy,
I presented the order TO Mr.. Higby, he refused TO
pay IT, which applied to Lincoln, aud ne seized
that paper without color of law the Court autho
ry lust as they say the Recorder did the [" Client.
worth Papers" and tore IL up Now, sir, want to
punish him for the forgery
"Oh that can't be sir, SAID the justice, but
we will have him up and bear What this Mr Lin
coin has 10 say for himself"
Mr.. Lincoln accordingly wa. brought up, and he
said that he thought he had perfect right 10 de-
sroy the note nasmueh as il had been appropriated
TO another purpose than that for which il was ere
ated.
The magistrate thereupon politely informed Mr.
Lincoln that he had such right at which Mr.. Lin
coin looked much surprised; bat whea the worthy
magistrate pol tely informed Mr. Lincoln that he
must find bail in $500 the sarprize Of that ndivi
dual can, az the novel writers say be much easier
ed han described. Bail was found aud there
the matter rested.