Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-11
Police Picktnrn.


Ned Kennedy stole a cloak from
Mrs. Brothers, in Chelsea, aud was
sent to Jail this forenoon.
Attorney General Turner talks of
trying to have a lot of medals struck
off to be presented to ~murdercrs.
Thomas Banks, an African laborer,
lodged free at the station house last
night, the only one who asked shelter.
Eighteen offenders had their cases
inquired into at the Police Court this
forenoon. Two being for minor ofenses
were discharged.
Paul Horn, who forged a worthless
check for $13 on the First National
Bank, was sent to Jail to await trial
before the Criminal Court.
The police and fire commissioners
are bent on business and will here
after enforce Sunday orders or draw a
fifty dollar fine from each yiolator.
The Criminal Court was preparing
for the Tom Cassaratti murder trial at
noon. He is charged with having
killed a negro a year or two since.
Newton, who was so badly cut by
Dick Turpin at Dougherty's saloon,
was up town this morning, and SAYS
he will live to prosecute the bloody
Turpin.
Sam McClaren, a boy who had a
sack of about twenty pounds of loose
cotton when captured, has been sent
to Jail. No owner has been found for
the cotton.
Sam Clark is the man said to have
been killed by Stephen Dawson near
Australia Landing. Dawson has been
sent to Jail for fifteen days to await the
proper papers.
Robert Braeey, Wesley Cobb and
Jos. Williams, mule thieves, were ar
rested yesterday for stealing a mule
from Mr.. Bum, beyond Chelsea. Es-
quire Egnew will examine the easethis
afternoon.
James Hays, a white Irishman, en-
sconsed himself in the house of Mrs.
McGraw, on Winchester street. He
refused to give satisfaction for his
trespass, and this forenoon he was ar
rested for it.
Stephen Dawson was arrested yes
terday charged with killing a man
near Australia Landing, Miss, one
hundred and fifty miles south of this
on the river. He will await the com
ing ofan officer with a requisition.
John Hoover, a disorderly drunk
ard, was sent to the chain-gang for
forty days this forenoon for his bad
conduct. John is a brickmaker. Jas.
Sanders, a disOrderly person, was also
sent to the same force for twenty days.
Jake Levy, Mike Mitchell and Jas.
Creed all paid s. each into the Police
Court treasury this forenoon for fight
ing, and Pat Cummings forfeited $40;
Jake Storz paid $25 for selling liquor
on Sunday; c, Augustus paid $50 for a
disorderly drunk, added to resisting
officer DOugherty. The total cash re-
ceipts for fines was $40, a very good
days work.
The r@ascals who wrote threatening
letters to Mrs. Dawson, on Adams
street, have waived a preliminary ex-
animation. The more respectable
Hugh Davis gave $1,000 bail and was
let out. A. T, Foster, the ex-show-
man, and Charles Sims, the boxer,
went to Jail, not being able to give
bail. Sims turns out to be a most vii
famous scamp.
Officer LOnginnetti is charged with
brutal treatment towards a half de-
mented negro woman, who was seen
picking up loose cotton on the leyee.
Bystanders say he struck the woman a
severe blow on the head with his club,
and the blood poured forth SO freely
that it turned their stomachs. The
officer shows where the woman bit his
thumb very badly. The officer is
having the matter inquired into to-day
by the police commissioners.
A COW thief, as black as the ace OF
spades, named Joe P~ettigrew, claiming
to be a preacher by profession, was
captured yesterday on a mule Dor
rowed from Phil Buntyn, and without
his permission, too. Pettigrew is o
comely African, who now sails under
the name Of Stephen Callahan. He
escaped on the 10th of July, 1877,
from Deputy Sheriff Sneed, while the
latter had been out in search of money
to pay his attorney, He carries a shot
in the arm which officer Murphy
plugged him with while after him
some time ago. Joe is a tough citizen
and will have a hard time to get clear
again.