Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-18
The Courts.


POLICE COURT-Jnlge Bundy pro tenn.
Yesterday afternoon after our report closed
Jas. Davis. larceny of pOcketboOk containing
50 and gold ring valued at 50 from Nav Smith:
=25 or 60 days in JAIL Edward McRae. larceny
Of a gold watch from Samuel j. Butterfeld
grand jury. bonds $500. Jno. Pumphrey va
grancy: 10 days in the wOrkhOuse. Washington
BraxtOn. charged with Obstructing the pound
master; So or Is days Mary Welsh, vagrancy:
bonds or 80 days. Chas. Hillberry a white man.
charged with making an indecent exposure of
his person; IS or Is days. Daniel Hart, DESTROY
ing private property; $40 or 80 days: VIM West
curslng and swearing in West Washington; IS
or ID days. John Norris and Henry Kaiser, two
neatly dressed young white men, were charged
with being suspicious persons and Migrants
Lieut.. Arnold and several of his officers testified
tnat these young men have no visible means of
support. and loaf around the Division at all
hours OF the day and night. Judge Bundy re-
marked to them that they were before him on
the same charge about a week ago. and he gave
them fair warning that if they did not desert
their Old haunts and go to work and make an
honest living that he would send them to the
wOrkhOuse; and as he intended to teach them
that a warning of this kind meant something he
would send them to the workhouse for ninety
days unless they could furnish bonds. Edward
fenable. loud and bOisterOus; SIS or Is DAYS
VIM Myers. forfeited collateral Edward Den
TIM, charged with making rude and obscene re-
marks and comments to persons in their hearing
in calling Officer Shanks id fool, was fined
50 or Is days; an appeal was noted. John Sher-
lock, vagrancy; GO days.
To-day, Edward Dorsey, cursing and swearing
on the street; IS or Z days. Charles Drinks q
cOlOred boy, was charged with being a vagrant.
and sent to the reform school. Eugene Pierce.
loud and bOisterOuS and disOrderly in the
division last night; So OF Is days. Thomas
Oran loud and bOisterOus: S. or Is days. Thos.
AlbertsOn. vagrancy; bonds or 80 days i'm the
work house. Charles Green, keeping an I'M
licensed bar; SlO5 or 60 days; appeal noted.
Catherine DentZ, of West Washington, was be-
fore the court charged with selling liquor with
out license One of the witnesses for the
prosecution. Lewis Honesty cOlOred, was ex-
amined by defendants counsel as to his credible
ity, and admitted that he had been sent to iail a
couple Of hundred times or So George Wash
ington. whose character for veracity used to he
unquestioned, testified to frequently getting gin
to drink at Mrs. DentZ'. Two other prominent
men-Benjamin Franklin and John Randolph
were sworn and testified for defence The court
evidently thought that George WaShnuton,s
testimony would not stand in law against that
Of Ben Franklin and john Randolph, and he dis
missed the case. Robert Barker and VIM Nc
Gill. throwing stones in the street: 81 each in.
liza Smith was charged with makinS threats tn
May Lewis, and gave her personal bonds to keen
the peace for six months. Horatio Maryman
was charged with the larceny of some pictures
from George NJ. Berry. The charge was not sus-
tanned and he was dismissed. Thomas Johnson.
coiored charged with the second offence OF
petit larceny in stealing revolver from Arthur
Jackson; grand jury-bonds $780, Chas O'Nea]
and George Simons, two young white men. were
charged with fighting in the street. O'Neal for
feited collateral, and SimOns was fined $40 or sc
days. John Miles, a colored boy, was charged
with being incorrigiblc boy and refusing to 90
10 school. He was sent to the Reform school
during minority. Mary Walker and Annie
Braekett, two small colored girls. charged with
stealing some rags from ragman named Clay
ton Jones. We're sentenced to 10 DAYS each In
JAIL JAS Noble Jenkins, assault on Robert Tur-
Chas. Wallingsford; es OF days. =