The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-02
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Notes In tI.e Police Court.
Isn't 1t a little strange that for all his
Honor disposes of so many cases Gust IS
yesterday morning, for instance) }, that
business does not get dull after awhile,
and enable the good Judge to take
rest; to stop little to wet his whistle,
as it we're? That the ever watchful
Court Officers, John Quinn, Cornelius
Hanrahan (Corney's his pet name y and
Jacobs, can't find time to remain away
day or 80 and recruit up; that the Dean
finds 1t impossible to give that hammer
Of his rest; that Johnny ostendorf
can't seek fresh fields and pas
lures new, and get Theodore Thomas to
write him out a new air to his little
piece; and that the good-natured and
obliglng elderly gentleman, Col. Won
Martels (he's the party that makes PLAIN
70 the Germans, who have the misfor-
tune to nave business with his Honor
either as criminals or witnesses), }, when
they say IN answer to the usual ques-
ton, DO you speak Eugllshp "lch
verstehe es Elm wenig, aber ich spreche
es nicht," what is wanted of them;
isn't it a wonder, let 1t be asked, that the
Colonel can't lind time to finish that ci-
gar stump that he clings to so tenacious
ly? But they don't, none Of them.
The same sdemnition grind" goes on
day after day, and just SO sure as the
hands of the clock point to .half-past
eight, there sits in waiting the usual
number OF offenders that must 90 through
the mill. And those everlasting police
men keep on hauling them in, as if
their positions depended on the number
OF vags, drunks and disorderlies and
petty thieves they swoop down on in a
given length of time. II speaks well for
the boys with the brass buttons, and
Colonel Snelbaker and the Mayor, that's
a fact, but are the yags and thieves to
have no chance? and hard winter COM
ing onl Think of that
'Alas for the rarity
OF Christian charity
Under the sum-
Isn't 1t pitifui,
Among a whole city full,
Friends they have nones"
Just think OF listening to and dis DOS.
ing of the cases OF 5000 of these gentry
in the last six menthsl That's exactly
what the big book shows Judge Linde-
man ulu Dut heop OH1 NOTuGy anu tne
STAR man can stand 1t, II anybody can.
rrot 'em out. 't-F
Mary Baldus, an old German matron
with o brown sup-bonnet, and clean
calico apron, shot out from the bench.
MARY, when did you get out of the
Work. housep' sJist come out yester-
day, Sir" Sand here you come again,
Last night the officers picked you up on
the streets, and IL took four men to land
you in the station-heuse. You were fear
fully and wonderfully drunk. PHI see
that you keep sober for few days at
least. Out you go again for ninety
days" And down stairs she wabbled
with the graceful motion Of duck.
Here comes gray-haired waif from
Hancock county. His tangled hair
fnl porkinhine." He's lame and bent,
"Robert Gerdew, you came q long way
to beg. We don't allow that here.D "My
dear sir, only went into q bakery to
get couple o. cakes, bein' hungry.
and" "Well, well, you are in bad
shape certainly, Robert. PHI let you go.o
With head bowed down and painful
limp, the poor old man took himself
away.
"James SELL" said the Court, "you
sold out at very low figure. II you
have the least idea that you can get
drunk and disorderly, and then try to
clean out the whole police force, you are
as much mistaken as ii you burnt your
shirt. Go around and lay down So and
COSTS"
1t isn't often that we have grand ju-
ryman in the sweat-box, ana when we
do, let 1t be recorded. He comes from
Montgomery, this county, and gives his
name as James Crosby. Being on an nm