Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-19
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MarshdPs Office, July l, 1859.
To the Honorable City Council of the City of
Worcester In obedience to the requirements
of the ordinance establishing the office of mar
shall, the undersigned has the honor of submit
ting herewith his second quarterly report of
the police department for the year 1859
Few offences of an aggravated character
have been committed during the past quarter,
and the city has maintained its general good
character for quiet and order. The united ex.
preston of officers from the various sections
OF the State who have had occasion to be
among us, sustains the assertion that this
community may safely challenge comparison
with that of any city of equal population for
its peace and sobriety.
During the quarter just expired, two hun
dred and thirty-seven persons have been ar
rested and committed to the lookup, for caus-
es and in number as follows:
Indecent exposure ofperson, 2; assault with
intent to commit rape, l keeping disorderly
house, z; disturbing the peace, 49, assault and
battery, II setting fire with intent to burn
dwelling house, l I; hawking and peddling, /
threatening the life, l. violating Lords day
act, z; obstruetng public streets, 2; larceny
from person, 6; run away from parents. 2;
idle and disoute person, insanity, drunk.
cnness, 100; disorderly, %; larceny, II es-
capped prisoner, l; suspicious persons. 3; bur-
gary, ; adultery, l; vagrancy, 8 fast driv-
ing, common drunkard, 2 truant children,
2; night walking, l of which number one
hundred and nine were non-rosidents.
have discharged from the lookup during
the same period, without complaint against
them, seyenty'six persons, arrested for the
following causes =
Drunkenness, As; disorderly, 81; suspi-
cious persons 2; disturbing the peace, lar
oh ., a.. I
day act 2.
During the same period, have enter
ed in the Police Court two hundred and thir-
teen complaints, for the following causes, viz !;
Drunkenness, rs; larceny, 10; larceny from
person, Il larceny from house in the night, / !;
vagrancy, 6 assault and battery, 81 assault
upon officer, selling liquor, 0 disorderIy,
z; disturbing the peace, 20; common drunk
ard, Il +; idle and dissolute person, | adulte-
ry, /; hawking and peddling, q; fast driving,
q; taking and carrying away swill, A /; violat-
ing Lords day act, 3 maintaining nuisance,
A; removing night soil unseasonably, 2; re-
moving night soil in open vessel, assault
with intent to commit rape, assault with
deadly weapons, 2 obstructng public street.
keeping liquor with intent to sell, 2; keep
ing unlicensed dog, 49, setting fire to dwell
ing house with intent to burn, indecent ex.
posure OF person, 2; keeping disorderly house,
9 furnishing Intoxicating liquor to prisoner,
l.
The earnings of the Department made up
to the seventh day of May, 1859, that being
the close of the first judicial term which has
expired since my connection with the police,
are rs follows =
Fees Of Marshal in Police Court for May
term. STA ~
Fees Of Assistant Mcfarland in Police Court
for May term, 1902 %
Fees Of Assistant studley in Police Court for
May term, 25s 80
Fees of watch ~ 20
1913 65
Fees of Marshal for May term Court Com
mon Pleas, mttimus, al "a
Fees OF Assistant Mcfarland for May term
Court Common Pleas, mttimus 20 IA
Fees of Assistant Studley for May term
Court Common Pleas, mittmus, Al 81
S93 2s
Add the amount, 1913 Sc
SlOli SO
for which sum Of ten hundred and eleven dol