New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-09

! Nytr. was in confinement; and on being answered 70
IL affirmative inquired tine nature Of his of. ase On
terc informed tLat lie Lal been committed :, p-,.u
tie night before for drunken and di,oriety conduct.
sad that he was her husband thai he had gone ou OF
tie city to voik some day. before, since Wien she hal
not seen him; aud afcr having suffered tie most a-
t,rse anguish account Of his failure 20 return home
~ expected Saturday evening, he hal Just learned
What had become Of him; that he wa kind and in
Gu se.; husband, but had a:,y got into bad company
whom she fearful would eiec: hi, ruin, AL tor-
ever destroy her happiness that but few weeks ~
sle Lad o>t child, and this calamity Appeared.
a. il her cup Of misery about being filed TO the
brm.
Myers was then broucL, into Court, when Lis poor
distracted vie proceeded 20 address him in tones that
will never be forgotten b. those who present.
aud certainly pen portray the effect Of the Ian
Cuage she used on that occasion We must therefore
content ourselves ~ merely giving outline Of her
woIds: 30, John little d.d expect think Of find
ing you here After waiting and watching in vain for
your return until could no longer hope or expect to
see You again alive, walked the floor TO ami fro FOR
many weary hour in The creates, agony. fearing that
some direfui calamity had happened, and that You
would soon lie brought home a corpse But here you
ere in prison, with Disgrace upon yourself aud heart
broken wife. And this is all through the influence of
bad compary-oIe bad man, who, | am shocked to
say il living openly with vile character of
q, John you have forgotten your poor child,
who has as yet scarcely grown cold beneath tie I'D
Is i thus that you preparing 70 meet that child in
better and brighter world. and judge --5ut can
Say 10 more
Here the poor woman stepped, being unable to give
l.r en.E
unnecessary. Size had said enough; f,r her husband
cried, the Judge cred the clerks cried the officers
eri,d-iu fact all cried, and Nj Knight asaiu opened
lis pursc,t-ings and extended truly sympathEing
hand to the afflicted couple before him. Justice
F.andreau On receiving promise Of future good be-
hayior, permitted Myers 10 20 home with bis wife,
who feryently Acknowledged her gratitude for the iu-
teicessiou il her behalf.
4 PREcoclors Bor.-Oflicer Wolf of the Ninth
Precinct Metropolitan Police on Sunday afternoon last
detected boy eight years old, who gave his name as
John Gavin Try TO get sO bank note changed, and
suspectire that he had not acquired possession of it
honestly followed him on board one of the iioboken
fely.boa,s and watched this boys movements closely
and having thus satisfied himself Of the correctness Of
his suspicious. he took charge of the boy and the
money. The boy on being Intercepted in reference to
bis place Of residence pretended he did not know It.
that he was lost and could not tell the of the
family in IIoboken with whom lie lived. The officer,
however entertaining different idea Of the matter,
escorted the boy through the streets aud made such
inquiries Id to the obtGnment of the desired utOr
nation, from which it appeared that the boy some
time back called upon respectable family in loboken
anl asked for food and the privilege Of staying all
night assuring them that he had no parents or friends
and was suffering from the want of f)od The family
perceivug that the boypossesscd an unusual degree OF
intelligence for one Of hi, years-he being enabled to
read write and cast accounts, "a well as speak the
English and German languages tluently-not only gave
him home, bu; adopted him as member Of their
family, having no young children OF their own. Inc
boy had been with them but short time before he
proved himself guilty Of some petty thets the family
feeling confident that they could this propensity
TO steal were encouraged to keep him, for by his
remarkable smartness he Lad otherwise become
great avorte in the house. On saturday last, how
ever he gave the finishing touch TO his lghtiugered
operations for the present, by stealing =? roma
trunk belonging to Mr.. Augus,e Beauchea, gentle
man who va. boarding with the family who had
adopted this young rogue. Mr.. y. had mrtcnlona'y
left large bunch Of keys on the dressing ia his
room. These were taken by the boy and orc tried
after another uutil he found the fitting key, unlocked
the trunk ard distracted therefrom so gold piece
and 81 in silver coins with which be sloped and came
over to the city got the so piece changed for two $40
bills and with one of the $40 bills he bought himself
a suit of clothes and pair of patent leather CATERS,
and with the s. in silver he bought cap and betrayed
his personal expenses until he arrested the follow
ing day. On being INTERCEPTED as to the place where
he purchased his clothes be stated that he did not
know the store Or the Of the proprietor who had
charged him 30 for what could be obtained for $
e6 al the most that be took his old clothes and left
them behind some boards. The go bank bill taken
from the boy was given up TO the gentleman whom he
had robbed and Justice Flandreau disposed Of the
young offender by sending him theJuyenie Asylum
where bis precocay may possibly be turned to good
account When brought in crying by the officer, he
was supposed to be lost child; but when the story of
his exploits was told his naturally caused aston
lment and excited the deepest interest in his behalf
The adroit manner in which the whole case was
worked up reflects great credit upon Officer Wolf and
this arrest with several others of interest made within
the last few davs shows that the Metropolitan Police of
the Seventeenth Precinct Ninth Ward) are up and
doing
DIsorDvRL1Es GETTING THEIR DrEs.-Some dis
graceful proceedings enacted on Sunday afternoon
az the junction Of Il ghth and Greenwich avenues bya
numerous gang Of dsorderly characters. One of the
rerty VIM Martin, while in state Of beasty nto>-