Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-18
Il AIOTLEY CREW.

The Gardner-Prelat and Other Choice
Morsels Which the Municipal Court Fur
nished Yesterday.
The usual array of blear- eyed, solder, rum
soaked specimens of abject humanity, con-
fronted the august presence of tho municipal
police court yesterday morning.
The penitential bench was crowded with
mourners, dragged by the police not from
the black and swift flowing undercurrent of
crime, the sword fish of society-w hose
hurtling course is among the caverns of the
vastly deep, misnamed civilization, remark
able for its perfumes, joy, mephetic vapors,
jingling laughter, contrasted by the shudder-
ing medley of dead mems bones.
Crime is peculiar in his, that even the de-
PRAYED have their constituency of hero-wor-
shippers. AS theater for the incubation of
ethics, the police court is not success. The
performances are we'll attended, the lessons
taught are fearfully cogent, but force of ex-
ample overawes the punishment, and when
the law puts its grip on knave every villain
in the room erins. The court room WIS
crowded on yesterday with the curious.
Misery is frequently absurd or unique; the
knowing ones expected circus and they
were not disappointed.
A comedy in one act entitled "Driftwood,' -
was first called. Mrs. Gardner and Mrs.
Prelat fought over the ownership of guam
tity of driftwood fshed from the river. The
fghttook place on Wednesday and Mrs. Pre-
lat got the worst of it, a detailed account of
the affair having appeared in a previous is
sue of the GLOBE. The case was partially
tried on Thursday and came up on con-
tinuance yesterday morning. The witnesses
were amu~ingly vulgar, and as this evidence
of depraved mind unfortunately passes for
wit in crowd, everybody laughed.
The city attorney said that life was too
short to hear half the evidence, and the
most voluble witnesses were sensibly
choked off. The court thought that the
case was terribly mixed, so did everybody
else, but, as Mrs. Prelat had got consider
ably the worst of the row, the Gardner
family, husband and wife, were fined $5
each.
The case of Frank Dufore, charged with
assaulting French woman named Dina
Chevalier with criminal intent, was next
called, but by request of the prisoner the ex-
animation was continued until to-day.
Mike Corrigan was then arraigned for
threatening to kill John Cody. The pris-
oner said that he had been electioneering in
the Sixth ward, and becoming the worse for
liquor he was not responsible for what he
said. He was permitted to 60, on promising
to get new quarters and behave himself, and
on passing from the court room he was
heard to remark that he would snake it all
right with the boys at election
Jacob Brown was next arraigned for put
ting mansard roof on John Timm, while
the latter was docketed in cross suit for
disorderly conduct. Timm's face bore the
marks of severe punishment. His left eye
looked blue ard dubious, having been
pounded to the consistency of beef. The
parties met in Seventh street saloon, and
tho first blood was drawn by Brown, who
confessed to having knocked Timm down,
who had insinuated that he, Brown, was the
offspring of the genus canine of the femi-
nine gender. rough-and-tumble fight
onsued, and both parties we're arrested. The
court thought that the men were equally to
blame, and both cases were dismissed.