Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-20
POLICE COURT.
Five Cases Before His Honor-Old
Drunlzs, Threats to XIII, Etc.-The
Morning Session Mainly Devoted
to the War in, Africa.

Justice NItEereii'S place from beng
lately sinecure, has become under the
workings Of the town ordinances a sit-
uation OF life and interest. Under looser
county laws the policemen who hardly
ever had a job, now are kept busy watch
ing suspicious characters. shaking street
fighters asunder, and hustling old dranks
away to the calaboose. Yesterday S pro-
ceedings we've more numerous and
brought greater numbers of spectators
than ever before.
ON TER
The first offender arraigned was a
great muscular chap, with a beanins
good natured countellance, named Ne
Cam, charged with interfering with the
good order and dignity of the common
wealth by sleeping drunk on the public
street. He pleaded guilty y and said
been called up to answer to any like
charge in the courts. He had been
working hard for season, he said; was
poor man; had overreached himself in
the pursuit Of recreation; and had laid
himself liable to the law penalty. and
had nothing further to say than TO beg
the clemency OF the court. His Honor
made the fine as light as possibls, be |
said, fixing it at twenty dollars, which is |
less by five dollars than the costs OF the |
suit.
THE TOWN GOVERNMENT A BLK.
Dick Mills, for whom Mccain is work |
ing, stepped up and shelled out the coin,
feeling, and saying i'll unison with the |
acquitted, that he thought the town
government worse than our original con-
dition of every man for himself: that ten
dollars, he thought. would be quite
heavy enough fine fox man who had
not hurt or interfered with anybody
but himself possibly, which IS his own
husiness) III falling over tight and nap
ping beneath a bootblack stand. "Some-
body" he said, must be making money
out Of this
THr BIG CASE, -sE.i
Taken up next, was that OF Paul Crom-
well, arrested on the charge of threaten
ing to kill on sight one Sam ". Williams,
darkey of highly developed African
characteristics, who has been living in
Carson about a year, and who has ap
parently become enamored of Pauls
~ife-the root and spring Of the trouble.
Paul is a mulatto and would have spoken ,
at crushing length in his own defense;
but for fear OF another Raymond & Ely ,
Hermes exhaust, he had to be suppressed.
Hal Clayton. by request of the District '
Attorney, stood up in behalf of defen- 6
dant right nanfully and well. In the
evidence it was developed that Crom-
well is a blatherskite-which term they t
in our slang to signify a man c
whose reputation for loud talk is good; v
or whose words are wind. He threat /
ened to shoot Williams, whom he would l.
not call Mr. until enjoined to courtesy c
by the Court; and went home seemingly b
for his gun" but returned with a
bundle of blankets on his back instead,
and passed by his man without looking J,
At him.
CROSS EXAMINATIoN.
Paul started in to question one Of the b
witnesses on his own hook, but address, a
d him as THAT little COON and was fl
hut off from further privilege. This 6
coon" witness is about as long as the a
white apron he wears; and his feet are W
IS long and as knotted as his arms. If o,
lie walked on the level he might be used il
S roller in a barley field Paul says a
le IS loafer, and lives in Il b.
''DISsIPATED' HOUSE. Il;
Paul was mad in his heart to find al
T.illiams foolin' with his wife at Reno I'll
there he had put her with Madame Beck oil
D be doctored, and treating her extern
lively to ice cream after night at Nanny
'rout's. Hal Clayton defended Paul OF
18th all his cunning and sophistry, but sst
made the threats; and his talk 81
eighed no more il the decision than d.,
is clients wind" He had waxed bo
cry noisy, however; the audience was G.,
cad still; he swayed back and forth and th
is eloquent eyes spoke more things, if w
ossible, than his tongue: he had nailed 81
le court and the crowd, and was Just TT
king good stare upon his cowed au- no
ence all around, when small boy from so,
lie alley down below yelled out to the 10,
lief of all above, tn,
''KENo!' or
The defendant was bound over to keep
e peace. Bond, $500.
AFTERNOON. va
One of Scotia S boys, Geo. Fitzpatrick, ,
e same that gapes and sings "A Comm Ses
ro' the Rye" when he gets too full for she
her utterance, was hauled up; and VIII
I'm Sutherland, his boss tailor, took uat
m out of soak for SIS. "a
John Strange, not peculiarly drunk ma
It all the same as the Scotchman above, the
md no friend fo mt nm for him and son