The daily gazette., 1876-12-28
WHERE ARE NO HOLIDAYS
THE ToMBs MILLS OF JUSTICE GRINDING
THEIR CHRISTMAS GRIsT.

THElR MAS
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The Tombs POLICE Couft hasn't any
holidays and the scales of itAjustice never
swing even and idle Yesterday morning
Judge Morgan took his seat on the bench
promptly at . o'clock, with a "merry
Christmas" for every body. The precincts
are taken in turn, numerically reversed,
so that the first is the last
$50 you want justice, do you" said
His Honor to IA squalid-looking woman
with tongue of her own. Il must try
to accommodate you. William Long, you
are held in $500 bail to answer for assault
ing this woman; and you, madam, we
shall send to the House of Detention.
She thanks His Honor very much indeed
but when she comes to understand that
the House ofDetention don't mean the
county doctor shop she looks rs if shed
got TOO much justice
"John Desmond, you were drunk, the
| complaint says. llow's that "Well,
yer honor, | was to a friends house 10
spend the evening and got u little too
Honor. John said it was the first time in
| thirty-seven years that he had got into
this fix" and he was sorry. The Judge
said it was n the spirit OF the law to allow
| it once in thirty-seven years and he let
John go on condition he wouldn't come
back till Christmas Day, 1918.
"John Mccormick, you Were drunk,
too" John said it was Christmas, and
| got off. As he walked away n woman
stepped out from the motley audience
| and assured the Court that John hadn't
breathed a sober breath in three months
"Well, said His Honor. 81 let him go
for the glad tidings he brought us. Just
You watch when he comes here again" =
\ THANK yer honor, God bless you," and
away she started to catch up with John.
Anna Jones is the next She is Il
venerable looking lady, and wears specs
l"Why, Anna, said the Court, "you don't
I look like lady, who would celebrate
| Christmas eve hv getting drunk"
"Im sorry, my dear young Judge" (Ilis
Honor seems pleased, but came over
here from Brooklyn to see a friend, and
of COURSE, my dear, you know we return
ed the compliments of the season in the
| old way. and I'm so sorry that il should
have got me here. I'm widow, dear
| Judge
Indeed, I'm glad to hear that bul
don't it seem singular Mrs. What did
| you-Say- your name was -yes-,IoneS, that
SO many widows come over here from
Brooklyn to get drunk. Eve had
couldn't tell You how many in the last
few weeks. Mrs. a-,JOncS; we have nm
animouSly agreed to cut this widow busi
ness short. Five dollars.
| The lock that widow gave the Court
was something to be remembered. Il
wasn't the -, though she hadn't it, thai
bothered her, but that he should doubI
her word.
"Next case. saws His Honor Sc
Charles Reilley gave you that black eye
Did he make that indentation on you
nose as Iwell?"
~ don't know what he intended
Judge, dear, but / have me eye here from
the blag- gard"
$500 TO answer"
Then follow dozens of eases of ''intoX'
annexed. Some get OFF those that don
belong TO the "cloth y, and the rest ar,
sent down stairs to dinner.
Jane Collins had insisted on being ar
rested. She had no shelter from the COLI
and had eaten nothing all day, and sh,
begged the officer to arrest her that sh,
might get even the shelter of the station
house, She was sent TO the poor-house
Bernard Cush was then brought up tC
anSwer "a sweeping charge made by
Catherine Thomas. Catherine had ;
livery neat black eye and very unkemp
looking baby in her arms. Bernard, sh,
said, had given her a lamming tha
was caution Bernard was Il very
respectable looking man, and when tn,
| Court had heard his story it was eviden
that Catherine Thomas with the blacl
eye and baby had got the former b,
falling on plate, while the latter wa.
borrowed for the occasion, to lend patho,
TO the scene. Catherine was bade %
home
| Catharine Murray had been drunk,
my name is Kate" she said. ''Well,
said the Judge
kate of Kate Han, my super-dainty
Kate;
| My pretticst Kate in Christendom-tel
days
Through one hundred eases and NOR,
the same stories are told in one shap,
and another. by II O'Clock the busines
is done, and the Judge goes home tiret
and very much in want of fresh mir.
AS II is Christmas there is no afternoon
| service, and the calendar this morning
will be unusually heavy.
President Grant has written to his friend
in Illinois that he would regard the defea
of Logan in the Senatorial contest in tina
Estate as "a national caEmity.n 1t is a
natural that the President should hol
hold this opinion as that most Of the Re
mlblicauS who understand Grants,