The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-06
Justices, Court.

BEFORE JUSTICE WALKER.--Alfred STAN
ley, the innocent, who didn't know the
road to Newburg, nor his own mother from
harlot, and who drove w. w. Shannon's
horse and buggy to Mount Vernon, had an
audience with Squire Walker yesterday,
who finding him. minus $500, sent him
down to the Hotel du Darling to await the
action of the next Grand Jury.
Charles r. Cartwright, who made his adj
vent in our midst some days ago as a vend-
er of patent pumps. was charged with APP
propriating to his own use and behoof a
broadcloth coat of the value of $40, and one
shirt, of the value of 81, at the Climax Sa-
loon, on Fourth Street, the aforesaid arti-
cles being the property of another. Chief
of Police, Philip Klein, was charged with
his arrest, which he accomplished, but not
without a long chase and several assist
ants. He ran from the depot through the
machine shops, and Thence around in vari-
Gus directions, until be was fairly run
down and captured. He, too, lodges at
Castle Darling, In default of $500, which
sum he happened to be destitute of. Eo.
A young lad who had ordered pair of
boots footed, andto whom they had been
sent by the bootmaker's boy, and who did
not Immediately Iiquidate, was collared
by the bootmaker aforesaid, and, like a
bottle of medicine, well shaken, and then
taken before Esq. Walker to answer a
charge OF obtaining the boots under false
pretenses. AS the boy had the money, and
was willing to pay for the boots, Esq.
Walker could not see the false pretense,
especially as no previous demand for pay
ment had been made, and dismissed the
case. The bootmaker was subsequently
taken before Esq. Stinson on a charge of
assault and battery, and, the charge being
sustained, he was required to pay SS.S5 fine
and costs, leaving him minus the price of
the boots and sl.35 additional, but the ex-
perience may teach him to collect his bills
in future more gently and more legiti-
mately.
1t never rains at Walkers office, but it
pours. After settling the boot question
with justice and judgment, Mrs. Webb,
proprietress:of the Washington House.
entered complaint against one John
Osburn, an unsophisticated youth
who hailed from the rural precincts of
Carbondale, Ills, for wandering about the
halls of the hotel in singular manner,
frightening ladies, and manifesting dis
position to examine rooms not his own. In
short, she. had slight suspicion, that he
wanted TO steal something but had missed
nothing from the premises. She was
anxious to file an affidavit, but His Honor
was unable to see just how to word it, and
sentfor the Prosecuting Attorney, who was
also nonplussed for a name for it.
After much consultation it was finally
agreed that no action would lie, and the
sucker was permitted to depart The gen.
eral verdict arrived at, was that the rustic
youth having heard the melliff1uous voices
of beautiful women, had been charmed to
the door of their room to hear their words,
and being discovered in that doubtful
position, had very naturally been mistak-
en- for a bold burglar" He told us'after-
wards that he had done nothing and didn't
mean to- but that he had paid, $40 to learn
city life, and how to get out of an un-
pleasant dilemma. He left the city with the
belief that visiting courts of justice in
large and populous city was an expensive
luxury, and a wonderful institution. az