Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-02
POLICE POINTS.

For leaving the stand assigned hin,
Luke Lawn, a boOtblack, was fined a
dollar.
]. P. Riley's black eye cost him 50.
The optician, Luke Steinhower, also
paid 50.
That the weather affects police bust
ness is plain, from the number of ar
rests made last night.
This mornings docket was the
largest of the season. Thirty arrests
we're made by the police yesterday.
Officer Chastaine arrested Albert
Coleman, a roustsr, yesterday evening,
for cutting the pockets Of a country
darby.
Chicken Bills" beaming counter
ance illumined the court o.day. The
old sentence of two hundred days was
revived.
Information is wanted Of Miss Jen-
ME Wolf, whose friends in St. Louis
have addressed an anxious letter of
inquiry to Chief Davis.
A countryman named j. A. Mus
grave, who came from Fayette county
with some chickens to sell, was bound
over for carrying a pistol.
The charge careless driving" again
appears very often upon the docket.
The usual way is the release of the
prisoner upon payment of the damage.
A bootblack, who gave his name as
John Wilson, was nabbed yesterday
for robbing the till of Leggett's drug
store, corner Fifth and Saffrans streets,
Chelsea.
Civil lawyers have a poor show in
the Police Court. Those who are
more accustomed to practice there
soon put them and their clients in
~chancery.
G. Williams, who was more than
half seas over, tried to break into the
dOmicil Of a lone female, last night,
and was arrested. He will rusticate
twenty days.
Lawson Norwood, a COW thief, who
has been guarding convicts neal Holly
Springs, was brought to the city yes
terday under arrest, to answer a charge
Of COW stealing.
A talented whistler, found hanging
ovSr the south gate of Court Square
last night, and ~serenading the SPUR
rels, was extinguished by a policeman
and anRihilated by the Court with a
dollar fine.
Fort Pickering, represented by Vic
Dominica, and Chelsea, represented by
Alvin Hodges, both beardless boys,
came in conflict yesterday, and wound
up In the Stationhouse. They we're
fined s. each.
Two distinguished individuals, Cen
eral Cabriss and Thomas Hood, both
Of dark complexion, we're found
prowling about at two O'Clock this
morning. They plead sweethearts and
were discharged.
Dusky, frisky, Peggie Cooper ex-
planned her presence on the street at
twelve O'Clock by saying she had been
to a "watermilliop feet" Her escort,
Bobby Martin, judging from the man.
ner in which he walked, had too
many feet. Two dollars a piece was
the verdict.
Sweet Savannah Gibbs, with a CON-
plexiOn like a new stove, and a hat
like an umbrella, threatened to make
the officers head Hook like a powder
house, this morning, as she was
dancing rearward to the tune Of twenty
dollars. To the Judge himself she
expressed her supreme contempt Of SO
small a fine and was moyeA almost to
tears that he did not make it a hun
dred. 1t was a good morning for lively
repartee.e
Three policemen and two lawyers
we're required to repress the bounding
spirits Of the redOubtable Mrs. Red.
dington while she was being tried fol
fOully abusing another woman. Wher
Judge Hadden fined her $25 she ex
claimed, "0h, make it $3.50 at oncel.
and as she was being led back by the
turnkey plead with him to allow heI
to pause until she could abuse the
reporter for calling her an old rip.