Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-08
LOCAL NEWS

CITY MAsHAL's REPoRT.-From the quarterly
report Of the City Marshal we abridge the fol-
lowing interesting items in reference to the Po
lice Department of our City Government. The
whole number of persons arrested and committed
to the watch house during the year was nine
hundred and eighty-six, and for the following
causes, viz:
Drunkenness, $50; common drunkard, 80 /;
larceny, SO; night-walkers, 5; keeping disorder
| ly house, o; selling liquor, 4 disturbing the
! peace, 4S; vagrancy. %; disordery persons, So /;
! shop-breaking, 2 assault and battery, 40 OBJ
siructing railroad cars, 2; murder, fornicaton,
| IL assault on officers, 2; fast driving ; bur-
| glary, 8 playing ball on Sunday, 8 insane, s /;
| playing cardS on Sunday. 2; disobedent chill
| dron, 81 taken from house of ill-fame, 8; gam
| bling, 2; adultery, 3 breaking glass, 3; horse
| stealing, embezzlement, 3; forgery, keep
| ing house Of i'll fame. 4 detained as witnesses,
| s. escaped from Orphans Home, obtaining
| goods by false pretences, l 4; detained by tele-
| graphic order, 2; receiving stolen goods, con-
tempt of court, keeping liquor with intent to
sell, l fraud, / suspicious persons, 6; attempt
| to break and enter, unlawfully driving away
horse, making the total amount nine hun
bred and eighty-six OF this number, three hun
| dred and fOrty.hve were on-resdents the bal.
ance, six hundred and forty-one, claimed a resi-
! dence in this city.
| During the year, twelve hundred and ninety.
eight persons have applied for food and lodgings
at the Police Office, which has been furnished
them, and is the same as that furnished to pris-
| oners in the watch house. For this class of per-
| sons the Marshal recommends additional accom-
| modations.
| The Marshal states that he has made, or caused
| to be made, nine hundred and forty complaints
| before the Police Court, for various crimes and
| misdemeanors, of which there were for drunken
| meas, 42l; common drunKards, AZ; disturbing
the peace, Al selling liquor, l27; assault and
battery, l3; larceny, 81; vagrancy, %; keeping
| disorderly house, 8 murder, l.
The expenses of the Police Department have
been S9,2I3, including the amount of S103 81
paid to poor dodgers for meals, and the income
from witness fees of officers has been S204l IS,
leaving the net expenses of the Department for
the year, S7O60 II.
The report says;
''It will be that the expenses for this year
exceed those Of the Department for 1856. The
reasons for this excess OF expenditure are obvi-
ous--6rst. we have had larger number of watch
men, thereby increasing the expenses S2,257 20;
the payroll OF the watehmen for this year being
S6,35S So and the payroll of last year "a, 096 3d.
Secondly, the large number of public days during
the year last past has made it necessary to en-
ploy large extra police force for duty on those
occasions, at an extra expense chargeable to the
Department"
In conclusion, the report refers to the growing
evil Of the large number of truant and vagrant
children constantly found in our streets. "Many
Of them are found in the yards of our citizens,
ostensibly for the purpose of gathering offal but
in too many instances for the real purpose of pill
fsring whatever they can lay their hands upon.
Complaints against this class of plferers come
almost daily to this office, from those who have
just cause Of complaint"