Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-18
IN THE PRISONERS DOCK.
A Big Monday Morning Array-John Olso
Held for AttemDtin~ an Assault.

A Big Monday Morning Array-John Olson
Held for Attempting an Assault.
It. has been many dayssince the municipal
court presented SO lively scene as it did yes
terday morning. There were no less than
twenty-three cases before the court, and it
wanted some little ingenuity on the part of
the bailif to arrange that all the gentlemen"
and the one ''lady" should be accommodated
with chairs in the part Of the court usually as
signed to prisoners and which might be desig-
mated the bar, but that nothing which by the
widest sketch Of Imagination could be so
called, exists.
The motley group formed sorry spectacle
and a sad picture of the vicious and depraved
element of civilization. There were blear-eyed
sots and malignant-browed scoundrels-men
with faces swollen and tlabby and discolored by
long soaking in tap-room swill, and faces
SCARED and swollen and discolored by savage
encounters in drunken brawls-there were
those whose young manhood was Frustrated and
degraded to loathing, and of hoary-headed men
whose white locks and besotted features lily
| accorded with each other.
The first cases called were Sam. Buckler,
Charles Cromwell and Horton Adams, three
darky citizens of Minneapolis who created the
disturbance at the ebon skinned saloon keepers
on Fourth street Sunday night. They were
| fined $40 and costs each, and being more flush
| with the needful than DRINKS generally are
! paid their fines.
| John Larkin, keeper of noisy saloon ON
Minnesota street, asked for continuance of
the two cases against him, and was granted it,
| while Rooney, who was associated with him in
| one of the rows, was fined $40 and costs and
sent to the workhouse for ten days.
James Doherty pleaded to being little out
of the way" but was accused by his aged
| mother of drunkenness and brutal attack
| upon her. Doherty's face was sadly scratched
and bruised. The mother said he swore to
take nae life-he struck me here and there and
said he would kill me and take the head of
gets sup. He asked me for SO and gave
him one, and he said he'd kill me for the othe,
| two. Oh the numbering william! he tuck me
life and shall not be the bethe1
of it while l ive'' The judge
sentenced the brute to 80 days hard labor
when he surily replied, l can't work, I've got q
| sore finger.
| Another batch of four DRINKS, eagle
O'Connell, Jones and Shore, had four days
| given them in the work house.
John Olson, accused Of rape upon Johannah
Nelson, was acquitted, DR.. Mattocks testifyins
that no such crime had been perpetrated upo1
her. and the girl herself stating nothing that
torney accordingly asked that the case be dis
missed, and then fled complaint for an as
sault with attempt, which was substantiatet
by the girl, the father, mother and Mrs. John
son. He was held to appear before the CRANE
/ jury, and in default Of $500 bail was locked up
Emma and Pat walked gaily out of cour
yesterday morning, the man Dorsy who wen
into the disreputable den and lost his $50 no
appearing to give evidence, and the judge no
thinking he would be justified in holding tn
prisoners longer, there having been alread
three adjournments.