Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-22
POLlCE CASES,

Drunken and DlsorderIy Conduct Cruelty
10 AnamAls-Lych Law.
There was more than the usual amount
Of drunken and disOrderly conduct on the
streets during Saturday night and Sunday.
and the police succeeded in capturing
more than the usual number of offenders.
The mayor had no less than 10 cases be.
fore him, Of whom Is were committed to
Jail for terms varying from 8 to 80 days,
4 were discharged on payment of costs
and on payment of line and costs. Nearly
all of the accused we're drunk and disoI-
derly or engaged in begging. A few OF
the cases We're Of 4 quito aggravated char
acter. Two countrymen, John Rowe and
Jacob Herr, came to town Saturday even
ing to see the pantomime. Having fallen
in with ex-Policeman Hoffman, and im-
bibed rather freely, they became very
boisterOus, and ut tie close OF the perform
ance insulted number Of persons. On
reaching North Queen street they threat
ened number OF passers-by with personal
violence, and when Policemen Alvin Pyle
and Michael Burns cautioned them To
behave they dcticd aud threatened them
also. The c(licers arrested them, but not
until after very lively tussle, during
which Rowe was pretty roughly handled,
and had both his eyes bunged up and his
face distigured. He resisted, even after
being dragged to the lookup. The mayor
committed him for 20 days. His less
pugnacious companion was sentenced t"
Is days. A warrant is out for Hoffman,
who, it is alleged, kicked and otherwise
Obstructed tho officers while the arrests
were being made.
Louisa Multi, for drunken and disor-
derly conduct, was sent to Jail for 10 days
by Alderman McConOmy this morning.
Cruelty to Animals.
Walter Deem and Walter Rogers hired
horse and buggy from Thomas Houshton
yesterday morning, saying they wished to
drive to Columbia. They started about .
o'clock. 1t is not yet known where they
went, but about o'clock in the evening
they handed over the team to Frank
Lsidcnbcrger who took it to Mr.. HOugh-
toms stables. The poor beast. gentle
and valuable mare, had been SO shameiully
abused that she could scarcely reach tho
stable. Her body was covered with wclts
almost as thick as mans finger, and her
legs trembled under her The indignai t
stable boys demanded the whereabouts of
the men who had hired the team. Leiden.
berger said that he and Rogers had hired
the tear, from Deem and that Rogers hal
requested him to bring the team to the
stable as Houghton had 4 grudge against
him ROgers.) Thereupon the stable
boys, siezed tho man who had brought in
tho team, and despite his cries and en-
treaties souscd him repeatedly in the large
watering trough in the livery yard. AS
soon as Mr.. HOughtOn was made aware of
the manner in which his mare had been
abused he made complaints against Deem,
Rogers and Leidenberger who will have a
hearing before Alderman McConOmy.
The Rhoads sl.arcony-Roberts i'm Jail.
John, alias Francis Roberts, who stole
Henry Winners watch, sold it to RhOads
l. Bro. for old silver, and while the sale
was being effected stole cameo ring from
Rhoads' store and skipped the town, and
was arrested in Harrisburg, as has been
before stated, was brought back to Lam
caster, Saturday evening, and lodged in
Jail. He denied stealing either the watch
or the ring, charging the crime against
one of "his wicked partners" and, to
clear himself, told the officer just where
lie could get tho ring. The officer went to
the place designated and found the ring in
possession of colored man. who stated
that Roberts traded it to him for brass
watch. The man and the ring were taken
~ AsuOs"S duu WI. AsuO6uS WIS pOSltIVo
that le was not and that Roberts aras tho
man who was in his store and sold him
Winners watch and stole the ring. Robarts
is guilty, beyond question.
Family Eight.
Something of al excitement was creates:
up Mulberry street last evening by family
fight, in which Anthony Klink and wife,
and Lew Hepting were participants. The
report is that Klink was intoxicated and
whipped his wife, and that Hep:ing, who
is Mrs. Kinks son, then pitched in and
whipped his STEP father. Klink was in
search Of an alderman last night, but VIC
have not heard OF his making complaint
against his step-sOn.