The New York herald., 1872-07-10
ToMBs POLICE COURT.
A Woman C1ubbed and Dragged Down
Stairs by Three Policemen-aIary Janc
MOrrisy ON Her Muscle.

Woman C1ubbed and Dragged Down
Stairs by Three Policemen-Mary Janc
MOrrisy ON Her Muscle.
The day at the Tombs Police Court yesterday wit
messed no deviation from the general run Of petty
cases During the afternoon q great number Of
persons applied for warrants for the arrest Of vari
GUS individuals against whom they had some
grudge or another, but without single exception
their efforts failed to bring forth ruit. About two
O'Clock brace Of tough-Iooking ANA
IONS from the Sixth ward came trip
ping gayiy in just in the wake OF
an officer who escorted muscular negress whose
arrest their united efforts had obtained on charge
of SANDER. From the nrst 1t was plain the case
was one similar to that In which the kettle called
the pot black Mrs. Muldoon and Mrs. OFlarity, the
cOmplanants In the affair, said the "darty black
thing" had called them low Irish and accused them
of being drunk. "Now, yer Honor. yez knows we
do not dhrink ANYTHING. at ALL and that we
are dacent, respectable women what works all day
The Court know nothing OF the kind; I never
saw you before and never want to see you again.
You are full OF drink now Come here at i've O'Clock
next week.
ssNow, yer Honor, l want a warrant for Mary
Farley, do what bit ME here on the arm, she did,
the cussed Ould canhanibal. All but didn't smash
0uld teeth on me, and yer Honor, as sure as Vt.
Patrick drove the shnakes out Of dear ould Ireland
had Jest left her mouth or me-"
"Now you had better go home or will lock you
up; get Outln And she got
FI0HT IN COURT.
A very decentlooking Irish woman caused the
arrest OF notorious Fourth ward character known
as Mary Jane MOrrisy, for assault and battery.
Mary Jane escorted up to the rail by an officer
where she renamed perfectly quiet until the COM
plainant had stated her case, when, with a tiger
like bound, she rushed over the rail, seized the
woman by the hair, and, before the officers could
prevent il, dealt her three murder0us blows in the
face. Alter this little squirt she was taken down
another burly female from the First ward, who had
been brought in Ior drunkenness pitched into an
officer and blacked both his eyes In less than two
seconds.
THREE VALIANT COPS
at once drew their clubs and vent for her, one
seizing her by the hair and the other two catching
hold OF her arms, and In this manner they dragged
her out OF the court room into the hallway leading
to the stairs where the officer whose eyes she had
blackened gave her good clubbing over the head
and never once minded her shrieRs of "Murdern ~
and cries for help. The clubbing over
the three officers proceeded to drag
the woman down stairs, head first
and although there were at least dozen
grace the Uniform they wear cared not for the fact
that her clothes were all turned over her head
and that when they had reached the landing at the
foot OF the stairs she was nsenslble. Cases SINH
lar to this are OF almost daily occurrence, and yet
no one does anything to remedy the evil. Indeed
clubbing and Kicking women and dragging them
down stairs by the hair OF the head seems to be the
most congeuial occupation the average policeman
could possibly indulge in.