Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-21
CITY & NEWS ITEMS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY u, 1859

SATURDAY MORNING, MAY u, 1850
PoLioE CoURr--BEFoRE JUDoR LAwRENoE.
"A fair number Of cases came up before Judge
Lawrence yesterday morning for disposal
John Griffin was arrested for keeping a house Of
ill-fame on Union Lane. His establishment was
broken up some three or four weeks ago, but il
seems he is III The full tide of successful operation
again. o. Thursday night officers Lawrence and
Elvert entered the house aud found John jenkins
classical cognomen) reposng in the same couch
with his wife and a white woman, while GriGir
was sleeping upon a couch near by. jenkins aud
this woman arrested fer residing in the house
They plead not guilty and were fined S25 and cost
each, in default of which they were sent to jail -
jenkins said that was his house, aud he had live(
in the same way for six months and thought It hart
to be disturbed now The judge consOled him by
saying that he should not be disturbed iu his new
stone house
Peter McCann had made too free an acquaint
ance with namesake of hi called whiskey Can.
He said that when arrested he was neither sobe
nor drunk but was in a happy medium The tes
tmOny of the officers who arrested him, settled tn,
disputed question. Peter lives in house nea
Quayle & Martins Ship Yard, and has four chill
dren, whom he abuses by lying drunk most Of tn,
time. The children were taken to the poor housl
to be taken care Of Peter was fined $50 and cost,
and sent to Jail,
Bridget Gallagher lives in the same house Will
McCann. She has been on a continual drunk fol
four weeks, and makes day aud night hideous by
her ceaseess noises of yes and angry Words
| Having lived with NcCann so long it would bt
crue. to separate them now, so Bridget was allow
ed to go to the same jail with fue Of $50 hang
ing over her.
Elizabeth Dalrymple raised hearty disturbance
whereby the peace and quietness of the city wa
broken in upon, for which she was fined $40 an,
costs.
John Burns, for an assault and battery which h
could not deny, was fined 10 and costs and friend
can find him at the county Jail for twenty days from
date
James Smith, feeling he inGrmities of age crawl
ing upon him, entered the house Of Leonard Wet
eel i'll the night time, and took coat, three pal
Of pantaloons, cap and hat, the whole amounting
! S34, With this wardrobe as a stock in trade, h
started out to speculate-and finding boy name
sale of a coat and pair Of pants for six shillng-
Jerry meeting Leonard soon after was astonishe
at having the coat stripped from his back "n a mC
ment-in the twikling of an eye He eXplaine
his possession of the clothes, and 80 Smith was ~
rested He claimed that the clothes were given
bin, but the Judge thought appearances wer
against him, aud bound him over to the Court q
Common Pleas with bail at 5000
Earnest Krieger lives upon Academy Lane. u
last Saturday Ernest chose from the daughters q
the land, One who should share bis bed and boar
and act as his better half and took her home t
his humble domiGle, (got marredl On Monda
night his rest was disturbed by q cathumpia
serenade given by some of his old friends The
called upon him to come out and give them som
beer, according to the German custom when on
of their number gets married He disregarde
the CAL and after time they left but soon return
ed and sounded another blast before the walls {
his Ieriphq. pisregardiug even this hint, the
threw some of their pans &e., iuto his yard an
went away Still desrous of having him con
form to usual custom, they returned again on Wed
nesday night and gave him another blast. Pa
tience here stopped having her perfect work, an
he had Jacob Veneer, Nicholas Usnger, John For
teg, Anton Klumm and Jacob GAM arrested 70
d turbance, and they were examined yesterda
morning,
Krcger first told HISTORY of how they had CON
at clock atnght and played upon all kinds {
instruments until he thought they really had th
Harp OF thousand strings
On cross examination il came out that he Ina
been the leader of this party in thus sereuadin
newly married couples, but he did not like to !
so completely "hornedn as he had been He cal
ed up number Of wiLnesseg all but one of who
were there themselves, Holloway went wit
these boys to see the fun-he liked the musc-b
lleved the last piece played was from "Norma. -
1T was anything but "La Somnambula.) Wei,
Ter was there--the noise was considerable but nC
awiul-it suited him Myers thought the mus
was harmoniOus-it was TO him-he went aero,
the street to Krieger's house, and thought
sounded finely. Mr. Davidson, the counsel for III
Defendants, claimed that there was here no malic
necessary to make a disturbance, and the be
music in the world may be disturb auoO to on
particular person, while all others like IT,
The Prosecuting Attorney claimed that the priI
cpe ofthese tin pan sereuades should not be a
lowed to prevail. Sometimes, as in the case
Ex Gov. Webb in Illinois, fatal results may be Il
consequence.
The Court decided that the case was not prove
under the ordinance claimed, although it mlgI
easily be proved as an offence under another o
dinance, which provides that any loud noises ms
constitute a disturbance, The defendants we
therefore discharged, and therights of the Germs
"Thundermere" vndicated
THE GREAT $40 900 RACE Tho Great mate