Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-03-02
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and Mr.. Thomas Poftei @Ipd themselves
shotuwith astonishing ility into the
road without having ||e the troublezo
putting, foot to ground ing the whole
progress. of their. rapid 0tent. ..
y Mr.. Robert 'Smithers & ~ constitution
ally one Of the slow ~ And having
had quite enough Of going, in the
course Of his recent exr ION to last till
the quarter; day then ne nsqipg at the
very least, had no sooHef erged with his
companion from the pre- cts of Milton
street, than he pfoceeddd Indulge in cifs
icuitoris. references totlsd |llties Of, Sleep.
mingled with distant allr ms 70 thelpro5
priety of returning 70 1el on, and test
il ing the infuence of ~ >Ht BranIahs
over the street-door locks to Which tliey
respectively belonged. Mr.. Thomas Pot
ter, however, was valorous and perempt-
ory. They had come out to make night
of it: and night must be made. So Mr.
Robert Smithers, who was three parts
dull, and the other dismal, despairingly
assented; and they went into a'wine-vault
te get materials for assisting them in maxi
ing a night, where they found good
many young ladies, and various old gentle
men, and plentiful sprinklipg Of hack
ney-coachmen and cab-drivers, all drink
ing and talking together; and Mr.. Thomas
Potter and Mr. Robert Smibhers drank
small glasses of brandy, and large glasses
of soda, till they began to have a very
confused idea, either of things in general
or anything in particular; and when they
had done treating themselves, they began
10 treat everybody else: and the rest Of
the entertaipment was confused mixture
of heads and heels, black eyes and blue
uniforms, mud and gas-lights, thick doors,
and stone paving. 3D.
Then, as standard novelists eXpressively
inform us-"all was a blankP" and in the
morning the blank wasifilled up with The
words "STATIoN HOUSE," and the station
house was filled up with Mr.. Thomas Pot
ter, Mr.. Robert Smithers, and the major
part of their wine-vault companions of
the preceding night, with acomparatively
small portion of clothing of any kind
And it was disclosed at the Police office,
to the indignation of the Bench, and the
astonishment of the spectators, how one
Robert Smithers, aided and abetted by one
Thomas Potter, had knocked. down and
beaten, in divers streets at ditferenttimes,
five men, four boys, and three women;
how the said Thomas Potter had leloni-
ously obtained possession of five door
knockers, two eil-haEdles, and bonnet:
how Robert Smithers, his friend, had
sworn at least forty pounds worth of oaths,
at the rate of five shillings apiece, terri
fed Her Majesty s. SUBJECTS with awful
zshfieks and alarms u tEss -dsstfoyed- the
uniforms of five policemen, and commit
ted various other atrocities, too numerous
to recapitulate. And thu magistrate after
an appropriate reprimand, fired Mr..
Thomas Potter and Mr.. Robert Smithers
five shillings each, for being, what the
law vulgarly terms, drunk, with the tri-
fling addition of thirty-four pounds for
seventeen assaults at forty shillings a
head, with liberty to speak to the prose-
cutors.
Z The prosecutors scere spoken to, and
Messrs. Potter and Smithers lived on credit
for quart er as best they, might; and. al
though the prosecutors expressed their
readiness to be assaulted twice a-week on
the same terms, they have never since
been detected in making a night of it,"