Daily Republican., 1880-03-08
AT POLICE COURT.
A Victim OF ''Fifteen"-The Levy
COURTS New Departure-A Faulty
Telephone.

courts New Departure-A Fault!
Telephone.
l Colonel McLain brought Peter Givel
into the dock at Police Court, Sunda,
morning. He stood him up in one cor
ner, and left him there. Peter present
, ed ludiorous spectacle, and his visag
wore a doggsd expression.
}. "Were you drunk" asked Mayo
II Almond.
"No, wasn't"
l, A policeman swore that he found
Peter sitting on the corner of Fourth
and Market streets, Saturday night, IL
the pelting rain, with an umbrella un
der his arm, and "gem" puzzle boz
in his hands with all the blocks gone
He took the man into custody, when ht
broke away, fell down in the gutter and
exclaimed as he struggled to his feet
that no piratical policeman should dis
turb him while he was solving the
puzzle.
at amt SO, yer Honor" said Peter
81 wasn't drunk"
Peter Given what are you givin' us,
said the mayor solemnly. Isn't it bad
enough for you to get drunk, without
combining it with the sin of becoming
a driviling idiot over the game of is.
Your case is an aggravated one and
will fine you fifty cents and COSTS
81 don't care, I've got lots of money,
put it on heavy, make 1t $40, make it
a million, consider it capital case and
send me to Jail without bail; anything
at all will suit but penalty for drunk
enness."
"We havn't any penalties made to
order here," said tho chief.
"Thsn can | appeal"
"Yes."
And Peter went out and sat down in
the corridor, counted up his exchequer,
paid his fine and said he would consid-
or the case settled If they would give
him back his empty puzzle box. He
got 1t and went off happy.
The next man who came into the
dock had led hair, nose like a rail
road spike and the Democratic cate
chism written all over hishorid features.
His name he said was Thomas
Francis Bayard Elliott, and that he
considered himself nothing more or less
than a martyr.
The keeper Of saloon in the Eighth
Ward testified the T. +. B. L. came into
his place the night before and with an
intoxicated swagger declared that he
was the New Castle County Levy Court
on an assessment expedition and pro-
posed to assess every one in the room il
he had to wade through slaugher to &C.
complish his sworn duty. He took up
a bung-starter under the hallucination
that it was lead pencil and, when an
inOtfensive negro refused to confess that
he was on the assessment list and
would vote the Democratic ticket here
after, he hit him over the head, and
chased the whole crowd out Of the
room.
81 will fine you So and costs, Mr..
Elliott" said the Mayor, after he had
heard the evidence.
"You will hey, and I'll pay it," said
the prisoner.
"And if you do the like again, I'll
double the fne."
"I'll have the money for you this
sort Of thing is rather expensive, but
have Seen an awful lot of fun," laugh
ingly remarked the prisoner as he was
led back.
1t had been about 2 o'clock Sunday
morning when the next prisoner,
young man of respectable parents, came
up Market street. His hat was gone,
his nose was skinned, and he carried
his neck tie in his hand, he walk
ed all over the street as though follow
ing the imaginary trail of a black
snake. Reaching the open space in
front of the City Hall, he ran up to the
letter box, hanging 20 the lamp post,
planted his feet firmly, and with a
hand on either side of his mouth, put
his face down and shouted at the top o f
his voice, "halloa Exchange, any body |
there" He waited moment but no
answer came through the imaginary
and he shouted again with
the same result. A last he got a reply
and was telling them to connect him
with Front stree saloon, when Ser.
geant Dolan came out and took h,n in
to the cells.
"Do | look like pirate2" he inqui-
ed at the court when he was arraigped.
Tho nnurt didn't COW
Do l look as if l would kill man in
the heat of passion?'
"No you don't, but you would kill the
peace of tie city by bawling through a
letter box for telephone. We're you
lrunk?" asked the Mayor.
'Say, can l have a telephone put on
hat lamp post"
"No you can't. Were you drunk or
we're you not"
"Why certainly was. Thought you
Knew it before. How much will my
title performance in the letter box cost
ne?'
"Fifty cents and costs"
The prisoner paid the fine and costs
Having shook hands with
he chief and asked the reporters to
leep his name out of the papers, he
borrowed the warden's hat and took
lis departure.
Aims House Removal. i
The committee to take the matter of '
Aims house removal in hand has heen
completed, Il consists of Messrs. James {