The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-04
How They Report the Police Court i'm
Detroit.
from the Detroit Free Press. !

From the Detroit Free Press.]
Marier jane" called Bijah, as he hand
ed out lone woman, and led her around to
the chalk. mark.
"And Marer was drunk" added his Hon.
or, in sad voice; " for!y-three years old,
going rapidly to the grave. and yet so drunk
that YOU had to be hauled down here on a
wheel-barrow."
"On hand cart, sir" she corrected show
ing considerable interest.
Well, there is difference between a
hand-cirt and q whecl-barrow,' he went on,
"but it don't make any difference in this
case. In fact, the band-cart was the easiest
thing to draw you on, and more small boys
could gather around il. l will alter the
complaint to make it read 'hand-cart,' and
now ! want 10 know what you have to say
about it,"
Tears came to her eyes, her corset gave q
heavc or two, and she whispered:
81 wanted to 60 to the circus"
81 All. that touches tender chord" sighed
the court, as he leaned back and listened to
the music of the brass band floating on the
early morning air, and saw in Imagination
the trick-mule, the elephant, and the rhinoce-
rous, ambIing around the sawdust ring-ad-
mission, fifty cents.
:" Marier," he said ut last, in a changed
voice, you'll die in three or four years, any:
how, and perhaps it's just as well to let you
go to the circus as to send you TO the work
house. Mayhap, the SroWi OF the sea non,
the sCarl of the tiger, the MARBLE OF the os'
.tricb. land the gymnaStic exercises of the
monkcrs, together With the stirring air Of
sold LIN Tucker US rendered by the band
.anay pa; thoughts Of reformation into your
head GO, aged female, and remember its
fifty cents saved every time one craWls under
ahe canvas"
John AGroney said it wasn't his fault that
ne had bean arrested for vagrancy. He has
hunted the town oyer to secure situation
,6uteyeryhp.ly turned n cold shoulder. Bank
presidents SID it wasn'ta good day for hiring
cashiers; Wholesale merchants said they
,didn't want:a. head book-keeper that day,
and leading jewellers advised him TO 20 and
learn how to beng himself. Thus he was re-
butfed and discouraged at every turn. His
ducatS went ORE by Gae, his clothing gave
out, and when inund sse was sitting upon
pile Of clam >sheibG in 40 alley, straw in his
hair, tearSin bis eyes. &sd general lone
someone's about hiS.iace tiS made the police
man think Of the time he R1s lost in whor-
alebeTy swamp in tfe north woods.
sd like 10 take you OFF one side and
sit down and struggle with yOu," said
his HONOR "':hut'tbefe'S others 10 come, ana
the struggling business is aGjou ned sine
die. Rare you anything to say why l
shouldn't send you up for three moIthS?"
want three lawyers and jur.F," re-
piled the prisoner.
IL could send out and get you q tozen
lawyers and bundled .Surymen," sal the
court, "but it iSTt necessary. You have
had fair trial, been convicted, and as 'oon
as Bilah seats you ln the buggy the eurt ain
falls.''
Bijah took him out and seated him, a, I'd
when Maroney shed tears the kind old OH l.
Ger went across the road and bought him a
three.cent lemon. cut the end oil, aud handed
1t up in such kindly way that the news /
boys threw up their caps and sung:
lie Is good and he Is kind,
You'll never, never lind
A better man than old Bij!ec Coy. |