Daily Republican., 1879-03-20
POLICE HEARINGS
Drunk and DisOrderly Cases-The
Italian Case % mp Two Hours
OF the Time.

or the Time.
The Police Court was crowded Ia,
evening, every availak>eA - knnos2l
ken and the crowd wss6S III ~ O0VglV.
the room as inside. The Court was i
session last evening from o'clock un
til 9.20 and at one time it had the ap
pearance of lasting until morning.
The first prisoner placed in tee doc
was Henry Bayard, colored, charge
with assault and battery on Ole Bay ard
a one armed colored man. The princi
pal witness in this case was an old col
ored lady named "Auptie," Salli,
Fisher, aud she entered upon the cir
cumstances of the case in such an earn
est manner that several in the room re-
marked she had missed her calling il
not going on the stage. From the evi
dence given it appeared that the pris
oner was drunk and disorderly and h,
was fined 81 and cost.
Garnner Rollins, rolored, was arrest
ed by Sergeant Jones for being drunl
and Gisorderly. The evidence bein,
sufficient to convict Gardner was flnet
81 and cost
William F. Brown was arrested yes
terday morning on Market street n-a
Front by officer Gibbons. William wa
very drunk and at the Learing last ev
ening was fined so cents and cost.
.'Ned"Kelley, the rag man went t.
the hall yesterday afternoon at t2o'clocl
and told the Chief, he had no home, nj
place to go to and business being dul
with him he begged him to lock hin
up. The Chief told him to go out twice
and upon seeing that "Ned" was in
capable of taking care of himself locket
him up. "Ned," was given 80 days
The next cass tried was Lewis Muir
ply, who last Saturday was arrested
on the charge of stealing money fron
the house of Cremento Paschena, al
Italian, on Lord street. This case wa
brought up several days ago but wa
postponed on account of II. G. Turner,
Esq. counsel for the defence, objectinl
to the appearance of Harry Penning
ton, Esq, for the prosecution withou
authority from the Attorney General
Mr.. p. having received the necessary
authority his opponent made no furthe
objection and the case was proceeded
with. AIlarge number Of witnesses main
ly Italians, who live in the house with
Paschena, were examined, and az in
terpreters had to be- employed, and
counsel for defence made most rigit
examination, a considerable time wal
consumed. Frequent arguments by
counsel as to the admissibility of evi
dence also prolonged the proceedings
Cremento Paschena the first witness
testified to residing at Nos. "a and 81
Lord street. He had left his house Sat
urday morning at 6.45, and returned
shortly after 4.3O In the afternoon. HI
had in his valise Que $40 gold piece;
four IS gold pieces; forty-three 81 gold
pieces; ribbon with gold charm at
tached to it and one ring said to b.
worth IL but not gold. The valise was
in his room near the bed in trunk
Everything was all right when he left
in the morning, and in the evening
when he returned, his trunk was brok.
en- open, also the valise and all hit
money was stolen. He did not See
Murphy take the money.
Cross-examined.-He would not trust
Murphy or anybody else to go through
his house. The reason he thought
Murphy took the money was because
parties saw him go into the house.
Virginia Bradie also resident in the
house with Cremento Paschena, said he
had a revolver stolen from his trunk
but got it back early last Sunday morn
ing.
Angelic Cardinelli testified to living
in the house with Murphy and finding
the revolver of Virginia Bralie in his
yard.
Samuel Dunlap testified to seeing
Murphy on Lord street Saturday morn
ing $50 o'clock and also to seeing him
go up the alley that leads to Cremento
Paschena's house.
Officer Richards testified to arresting
and also to getting the key
from Angelic Cardinelli. The key fits
the door of Cremento Paschena's house.
Uurphy told the officer he was on Lord
) treet but denied being in Paschena' 5
house.
Georgella Rezzleri testified to living
in the house with Cremento Paschena,
and also to locking the door on Satur-
day morning when they left the house.
Witness had gold ring stolen, and his
valise was broken open.
There was no evidence to prove that
had stolen the money as no
one saw him 60 into the house or steal
the money. The only fact shown was
that he had key to the house and
was seen in the vicinity of Lord street
Saturday morning. There being no
evidence to convict the prisoner was
THIS MORNINGS COURT,
The first case tried this morning was
a young man charged with being
drunk and disorderly on the streets.
Michael was fined 50 and cost.
Lawrence alatts was given 80 days
at New Castle.
James Johnson came into the police
station last evening very drunk. He
was fined so cents and cost at the hear
ing this morning.
John Williams tramp, who had ar
rived in this city yesterday was fined
SO cents and cost for being drunk.
Fatal Shooting ARRAY.
In Vicksburg. Miss, on Tuesday
night, Captain w. f. Fitzgerald, Cap
tain w. n. Andrews and w. l.. Grpena