Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-25
HE COURTS.

PROBATE tOURT-JtHlJe tppl-
On Saturday, in re. estate of Horauo AmeS;
oecies amending and ratifying the report OF
the special auditor on the accounts of the
administratrix. The will of The late Aieline
Sergeant was filed ana order OF publication
issued. The register reported a number Of
executors, administrators, and guardians
accounts. which were approved ami passed.
POLICE CoURr-JtadQe Snel
To-day, Joseph Kelly, drunk aud disor.
DERBY; 50. w. F. Ingall forfeited collateral.
VIM. Nermillion, unlawful assembly; as
Moses Venny, razor fOurisher, was stood
up, and the charge read to him. Moses said
IL was nothing but shoe knife. Officer then
handed IL TO the court, who held up d regu-
lar face sclsper ..Call this shoe knife"
said the judge. "That's what calls it," re-
piled Moses. Judge.-.'s5O or ninety days"
George Stewart. drunk and disorderlv; SIS
John Randell forfeited collateral. Betsey
Pratt; sent down as a vagrant TO the farm.
Louisa Gitz went away again for vagrancy
for Dinety days. John Miiourn was ordered
to XIII his biting dog, which bit John Run
dell, or pay fire. Grafton Wallace was
fined SIS for cursing. Solomon Toliiyer, car
ryirg pistol; $50. Peter Mack and Daniel
Cilvin were given some good advice on the
evils of stone throwing in the street and dis
missed. Thomas Kelly, drunk and disor-
dtriy; 50. John Washington. charged with
larceny of some hay and corn from the rail-
road company; continued. Amanda Snu-
man was fined 50 for street curSing. John
Brown. larceny or bushel of coal; $40 or
thirty days. Also, charged with assaultIno
Officer Harper. of GEORGETOWN; six montds in
larceny OF demijohu filled with whisky
from Shoemaker & Herzog last night: $50 or
sixty days in jail. Louisa Mangen. larceny
OF $40 from Il; IL. Whitemore; s2o or thirty
Gays In jail Frank Smith, larceny of q sDi-
rt level; SO or thirty days In jail. Moses
Wood, larceny Of portion of a stove; 500
or thirty days in jail. Geo Stewart, threats
tnPeteI Hogan; rePrimanded and discharged
Walter Fisher, charged with stealing suit
OF Clothes from samuel Herman. Mr.. Her
man testified that the suit OF clothes were
frny In fri IF h 10
cember. Last night this colored boy tried
to exchange the suit with Mr. Herman wnen
he recosnized them and had the boy arrest
ed; COL tinued.
THE CAUSE OF 1T.
Henry Cause, larceny OF a quantity of
household articles from Henrietta Williams,
spruce looking mulatto girl, who testified
that SIZE had been living with Cause several
years as his wife. He promised to marry
her, but has never done so. The articles are
h her OVID she having purchased them with
her own money. He left her, and moved
away all her goods while she was absent.
Cause told the court that he bought the goods
with mis- own money, and could prove it; SO
Inc case was postponed, TO give him chance
to Go 1t. Cause was then arraigned ON the
charge of assaultiug Amy Redmond the
mother of Henrietta, who undertook to re-
monslIate with him for taking the goods
ten days. -
THE FRAUDULENT PAY ROLL PERJURY
CASE.
The case of Robert w. Waters, charged bv
TT. Lazenby and Guy III. Thompson with
perjury in case pending in the Criminal
Court, was postponed at the instance of Mr.,
Blrney, prosecuting attorney, as the case i'm
The court above has not been disposed OF
The attorney submitted letter from GUY
Thompson Withdrawing the charge against
waters, but that officer has no power In the
premises. The hearing was postponed until
February 5th next.
A BAD BOY.
Thomas Fitzgerald, larceny of nineteen
tnree chickens. md
quantity OF clothing from VIM. O'DonnelI
ODonEell had purchased a bull dog to pro-
tect his property, and Fitzgerald first stole
The bull dog. His mother testified that he
was IL years OF age, and q very bad boy at
that. So the court sent him to Jail for six
months.