The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-01

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w more to build up or tear down our cor.
porate reputation than the police magis.
trate can. 1t therefore behooves our peo.
pie to act wisely and we'll IN their selection
OF man to fill it.
Last Friday evening bow, 10 ar ~
years OF age, entered a Paducah grocery,
owned by Levi & Co., and finding his wav
to the safe, succeeded in abstractirg there.
from two five dollar gold pieces, two pocks(
books, few old coins and a sack containg
a lot of silver change. The thief accom-
panied by two other boys, boarded the
Fisk, and came to Cairo Upon the
strength of dispatch from Paducah Chief
La Hue and officer Sheehan hunted up the
trio, and took them under arrest Upon
the persons of the two larger boys was
found coin that counted out about forty
dollars. These two had provided them
selves with SLIGO revolver, each, and CON
sidered themselves prepared, no doubt, for
deperate work. But they didn't prove very
blood thirsty, and with the younger boy,
who may serve as valuable witness, were
detained until yesterday evening when
they were turned over to the Paducah au-
thoritics who arrived on the Arkansas
Belle
Two or three Of the men who are en-.
gagged on the Cache river bridge, were
standing on Commercial avenue, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, Sunday afternoon,
when one frankie Brooks, whose name is
not wholly unknown to readers of Cairo
police literature, passed by and gave one of
the men wink, and subsequently asked
him to come and see her, and the man at
once joined her. She was sucking lem
on at the time, and placing it in herpocket,
her escort thrust in his hand and drew it
out. A short time afterwards she COM
planned to the police that she had lost sew
eral articles Of value, and believed that
the man who had thrust his hand in her
pocket had stolen them. The suspected
party was accordingly taken under arrest,
and conveyed to the county Jail. His CON-
panions followed the police, and finally
convinced them that Souvrine the man in
charge, was Woodworking, strictly hon
est man, who would, at any time, be found
at Cache bridge, il wanted He was re
leased, and il is more than probable that if
Miss frankie ever RECEIVERS her "articlhs of
value, she must pursue some other trail
Charley Hodges finding his wardrobe
short to he extent Of his best pair of panta-
looms Sunday morning, recollected that a
colored prisoner, named Frank Anderson,
had brushed the garment on two or three
occasions, which fact suggested that,
through pure cussedness, the fellow might
have hidden them away. A short search
revealed the presence of some kind of
garment in the vault of the water closet,
which garment being tished up, proved
to be, not Charley's pants, but the
pair that had been worn about the
Jail by Anderson. In due time
Anderson was found, his shapcly legs
encased in Hodges cassimeres But he
denied stealing EN-. He got EN- from "a
man" The man was about his size and
looked like him, and-without listening
for further description of 1.-THE man." the
officer took Anderson along and incarcer-
atcd him in the county jail He had not
been committed ten minutes before he was
sound asleep fairly waking the echoes by
his snoring. As this is Mr.. Anderson's
second otfensc, he may be considered as
booked for term Of service in the Joliet
penitentiary.
The determination Of Judge Bird to
resign his Police Magistracy, and accept a
position as L. s. Mail agent on the Cairo
and ST. Louis railroad, will occasion CON
'AN'NiHDiN SUI ll4S'' Nltll'dSll IL has lbl1
been known that the income of the Office,
outside of the meagcr salary, has for a year
or more, fallen short Of the amount he is
required to pay for office rent. Not more
than five per cent Of the fines and costs in
criminal cases has been collected, during
the past two or three years ~ fact that Is
attcsted by the reports submitted to the
City Council. Yet there are those who al
feet the belief that the office, il attended
to, is worth over $4,000 year. No man
; ever filled the position, who can show rec
ord of more than half the office hours that
Judge Bird has made, yet The pay, outside
of the $500 from the city, has not averaged
one tenth of $4,000. This being true, and
official honor and dignity being rather airy
fodder upon which to feed ones wife and
children, the Judge has, very wisely We
think, concluded to accept a position that
will yield more of the real and less of the
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