Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-10

man was arrested for having, on the 29th of De-
cember last assaulted one of the free and peacable
citizens of Cleveland, and beaten him more than
the law allows. He said in defence, that he had
been to wake, and he was perfectly oblivious Of
all events thereafter. He did not doubt but that
he was guilty, but did not do it Intentionally. He
was fined SO and costs.
Joseph Webb and William Wilcox were arrested
on charge of passing counterfeit money, but as
it could not be proven that they knew the money
to be bad. or had reason to suppose it to be, the
charge was changed to assault and battery. It
was admitted by them. that, being out on sleigh
ride, they ''smiled" several times, in consequence
Of which they felt too elevated to continue to smile
upon each other, and when reaching Newburgh,
they fought and scratched each other in very
caterwauling The offence being commit
ted out of the city, they were bound over to the
Probate Court, with $500 bail each. The counter
felt bills which were in their possession, were one
dollar bill on the Piquinock Bank of Bridgeport,
and one on the Phenix Bank of Hartford. Both
had the same plate, with the names of bank insert
| ed. The work is pretty well done, but very dim.
Ellen Mullen was charged with using lewd lau'
guage in the street. She denied the charge, and as
serted that she "neyer was in no saloon at
no time, so there" She further accused the po-
Eceman of having been so drunk that he did not
know bakery from saloon. Her appeals were
lost upon the Court and she was fined IS and
costs
William Hughes is red faced, red haired, red
whiskered, red shirted, and red vested individual,
1 1,a~-. baan road IN he
of looking upon the wine when it is red. He was
charged with having stolen pair of shoes from
the store Of Mr.. John Garlic, on the West Side
The clerk testified that Hughes went into the store
and wanted some boots, some long legged boots,
some extremely long legged boots Short legged
boots, on being shown to him, were thrust aside
with indignation, and the yender who would i'm
impose short legged boots upon him was laughed
to scorn. Having put on pair Of very long leg
ged boots, he was told that they we're costly. BE
replied that be didn't care = for the price, but
he wanted long legged boots. He wished to go out
to neighboring grocery and try the boots. The
clerk objecting, he objected to pay for the boots
until he had tried them. Finally, the long legged
boots having been taken of, he seized pair oi
shoes and would have made of with them had not
man Of the law stopped him, and taken him to
the watch house
Hughes plead nothing in extsnuation Of his guilt
save that he was SO drunk be did not know what
he had been about He presumed be took the
shoes, and, so far as he knew to the contrary, be
might, while in that obIvious state, have set rs
to the Cuyahoga River, stolen warehouse, mar
ried a very old maid, asked an editor for charity
upheld James Buchanan, or done thousand 9th
er ridiculous things. He was fined $40 and costs
James Hine, another intensely red individual
was proven TO have stolen shirt from the clothe!
line Of Harry Stevens on the West Side. He didnf
know what he had done, for the state of intOxica
ton in which he had reveled for several periods,
had rendered him free whiskey agent, bat h
could swear that the shirt spoken Of had been hi
for two months. He could recognize its fsmilia
form, texture seams and stitches anywhere Hi
plea. however, did not avail and he was fined 81
= and sent to jail for 20 days.
joseph Gray was examined several days befor
: for assault and battery upon Thomas FiIbur. HI
e case was again brought up yesterday morning an
1 he was fined $40 and costs
q Michael Dwyer and Harry Keeper were eac
. fined S. and costs for intcxication with instruc
tons to be kept in jail until the fine is pail The
81 are hard cases. ssA-4-
The case Of the market.men arrested for viols
ton Of City Ordinance was continued to Monds
next, at A. n, when there win be jury trial.
The Street butchers have raised by subscriptio
or a sum ofmoney and employed Messrs. NJ. S. CAST
and ]. C. Grannis, as their Attorneys.
IS The gardeners and farmers have also raised
"A subscription and committee, and have employee
Mr.. J. Brown, as their Attorney.
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