Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
THE COURTs.

| damages of Thomas n. Dunn VS. Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad Company is not
vet concluded. The reading of lengthy de-
positions yesterday required the patient al
tention of the court.
CRIMINAL CoURF.-Howell Smith for
larceny, convicted and the time in the pen
| itentiary fixed at eight years. Sam Teasly,
| colored, for larceny, convicted and impris-
onment fixed at one year, with recOmmen-
dation to the mercy of the court. George
Williams, colored, for larceny, was convict.
| ed and sentenced to two years in the peni-
/ Tertiary. He had also been convicted on
two other indictments for the same crime
and sentenced to three years in one, and
eight ia the other. George Allen, for lar
cency, was tried but verdict not yet rend
! cred.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT-In
the section over which Judge Emmons pre-
sides argument is still being made On the
| demurrer of the defendants in the cases of
Stockholders vs.. the Directors OF the Union
and Planters Banks. Hon. Montgomery
Blair, for the stockholders, yesterday even
ing made the closing argument on his side
of the case as to the demurrer. The clos
ing argument on this branch of the case
wilt be made to-day by Judge Cooper, in
| behalf of the Directors. In the section of
the court over which Judge Trigg presides
| a number of indictments for illicit distilling
were disposed of. The indictments against
| Carter, Frazier and Luke Kelly and Travis
| Buckle were nolle pressed. Verdicts OF ac-
| quittal were rendered in the cases against
Henry Apple, of Smith county, Asa Brund-
ley and James Clendenning. The cases
against Joseph Williams, Aldridge, and
others were continued. The indictment
against Anderson GoVerly was tried, but
verdict not yet rendered.
POLICE CoURT.-Nine cases on the police
docket yesterday. The first one disposed
of was the
CUTTING AFFRAY,
of which mention was made in our col
umns yesterday, the facts of which seem to
be substantially as follows:
John Burch and Doc Burch, who are
spoken of by the police officers as men
shaving DO visible means of support" be-
came involved in dispute at a saloon on
College street night before last with the
somewhat noted Jennie Roach, when Doc
Burch caught hold of her and inflicted
several rather severe wounds upon her
head-she says with a knife, while he
claims that he Just merely hammered her
over the Uranium with his boot, for the pur
pose of getting her to disgorge a certain
sum of money which he says she had taken
| from him. The girl removed the bandage
from her head, showing the cuts that had
been inflicted, to the court, and they GER
tainly looked as though they had been made
with an instrument possessing more of an
edge Than boot is supposed to have. AT
| ter full hearing of the evidence, the court
gave TO the Burch's some excellent ad-
vice as TO their future conduct (Which it IL
not likely that they will follow, and then
| imposed a fine of $40 upon John
and one of $50 upon Doc Burch.
Thompson with a P sWore little We'd
Hesday, which necessitated more swearing
on the part of police officer yesterday
morning for the purpose of establishing the
| fact Of Thompson's having swore the day
before. Thompson's offense was fully e.
| tablished, but it did not seem to horrity the
mind of the Court TO any serious extent.
| On the contrary, that judicial body acted as
| though it had heard of similar violations of
| The law before, and that Thompson's crime
was not such a dreadful one after all, dis
missing the case with precautionary ad
vice to the arrested party regarding his fu-
| ture ''walk and conversation" especially the
latter.
ST. Williams came in from the country
| last Tue jday. History will remain silent
| forever as to whether Mr.. Williams was
moved to this course from motives of
| pleasure seeking, or whether it was the ur-
gent demands of business which led him to
| forsake, for a period, his native heath and
HE him away to the capital city Of Tennes-
| see; neither is it known in what manner
he entered our city, and whether he came
| by rail, by wagon, by cart, or on horse
back, will, in all probability, remain mys-
| terry, so far as the general public is concern
| ed, until the end of time. The first reliable
| information we have regarding Williams,
| is the statement of q police officer to the
effect that be found tfat individual night
| before last quietly Teposing on the sidewalk
near the Office of the UNION AND AMERI-
CAN, seeming to be entirely unconscious of
the fact that in thus doing he was perform
| ing a strange or unusual thing. Although
| Williams had ssle Ted a soft spot in the
| pavement for his couch, the officer was
under the impression that he had it in his
power to offer TO the man from the country
| much more comfortable lodgings at the
| lookup, and being man of great hospital
| ity he Immediately determined TO place one
| of the luxurious beds of that aristocratic
establishment at the disposal of the stranger.
| He found some difficulty, however, in con-
veying to the mind Of " iliams realizing
| sense of the discomforts Of the position he
occupied at that time, owing to the fact
of the latter having partaken-freely,
| the day previous, of the cup which both
cheers and inebriates, but the earnest eff
forts of the kind hearted star were finally
! crowned with success. The story of Mr..
Williams adventures, thus far, is pleasant
enough but the sequel is not quite so much
so; for when he desired to leave his lodg-
ings yesterday morning, he was charged
three dollars for the use Of the room he
had occupied, and for the otficious kind
ness of the policeman. 1t would have been
better for Williams, in financial point of
| view, to have secured bed at the Maxwell
house.
The story of John Jones is a sad one.
Leaving his home and the scenes Of his
childhood near Murfreesboro, about the
first of this month, he came to Nashville
where he fell in with man who was some
what the worse for liquor. This man, be-
ing at once impressed by the noble bearing
and manly qualities ofyoung Jones, at once
claimed him as his friend, and when
few hours later the police laid ruthless
hands upon the intoxicated individual, he
said be wanted to go along with his friend,
bis bosom friend, Jones, and in spite of all
the latter could do in his efforts to "shake
him." the booty chap refused to be
'shook," perssting in following Jones from
the room in which the policemen had
placed him, in order to allow him an Op-
portunity to sober off, whereupon Jones |
was taken under arrest by the policemen |
upon the charge of resisting them in the
discharge Of their duty; but, upon the sol- |
emn assurance of the young man from |
Murfreesboro that he would make his ap- |
pearance in the police court the next day at |
nine O'Clock, he was paroled. Here Jones |
was unfortunate again, for although be
specially charged his mind before going |
to sleep that night, with the fact that
he should waken up in time
to go to the police court the
next morning, tying red strings around
his finger and adopting all the other recog-
nized expedients for the purpose of insur-
ing his not forgetting his important engage