The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-16
ALCoHoL,s ArrACHEs.
The Police Court Panorama of Drunken
ness and Vice.


ness and Vice.
Thomas Stewart. Frank McCarn, Mike
Planners, John Red and VIM. ThOmp-
son turned up on Monday morning, all
on the same old charge of being drunk
| No greater temperance lecture can be
| given than Is afforded in this court eV-
cry morning. The victims all look about
the same; dull, heavy expression of
| cOuntenance, suggestive of headache
and disOrdered stOmachs, worn, seedy
garments and a general slow down"
look that succeeds night in the station
without the bracing nip" in the morn
ing. These men, or others like them
the names make the only difference
work hard at muscular labor until a
few dollars are accumulated and then
the twelve or fifteen cents they receive
per hour are literally thrown away into
the drawer of the we'll dressed saloon
keeper, who, well fed and housed, lives
of the labor of the railroad track layer
the farmer and the mechanic. What
remains of the cash, after an arrest, is
taken by the officer, turned over to
the Mayor and at the hearing is
still further reduced by a fine and, in
most cases, totally absorbed, leaving the
sufferer penniless, to work again and
repeat the performance. In the great
game of whisky, where the bottle holds
all the winning cards, it is surprising
that men cannot ''jump the game" as
1t has but the one result if persisted in
moral, intellectual and physical de-
structiOn.
SNEAK THIEVES CORRALLED.
For some time past the city has been
infested with an organized gang of
youthful thieves, who went into differ
ent stores either on pTetense of waiting
for their parents or of purchasing small
articles, near the safe. The hardware
store OF j. b. Brothers was thus robbed
short time ago, and upon inquiry, it is
found that young strangers had been
playing the same game in other business
houses, but without the same financial
success. On Tuesday noon, young man
went into G. HeTzer's shoe store on East |
Iuscarawas street, and bought pair of |
shoes and sat down near the safe, which |
was open, talking. Some time after his |
departure, Mr.. HerZeT found an enVeIODe |
missing which contained $32, belonging |
to the Odd Fellows relief fund, and at |
once notified the authorities. About 8 |
o'clock the same morning, Marshal |
Rlgler received information that three
young crooks were in the city, and he
soon spotted them and kept them in
sight. They separated, and he notified
special officer Wielandt, who shadOwed
them down Market street. In the after
noon, fearing they would get away, the
Marshal went down towards the Ft.
Wayne depot and Wielandt kept behind
two of them. Instead of going that way
the two, who were together, turned up
Eighth street, and Wielandt, thinking
they were making for the Valley depot,
notified officer Schlagle, who was stand
ing near the city prison, and he went
up TuscarawaS street to High, and down
High to Eighth, where he met them, fol-
lowed closely by Wielandt. They were
then arrested and taken to the Mayors
office, and MessTs. Brothers and Herzer
called in, who identified one of them as
the party visiting their store. They
gave the names of George Wilson, Phila-
delphla, and VIM. Nelson, Chicago, and
ages as fifteen and sixteen. Upon search
Nelson $50 was found seWed up in his
undershirt and nearly $40 loose on his |
person, among which was $50 silver
certificate and a torn 81 bill, which Mr..
Herzer Identified as part of his lost |
money. Great credit is due the Marshal |
for his prompt steps in having the boys
shadOWed, and to the officers in the way
IL was done. In city where we have
no detective force, the fact of an officer
being compelled to wear his uniform at
all times gives rOgues G ance they do
not get in other places, and interferes
greatly with the speedy action of the
law. The two thieves were arranged at
II O'Clock noon on Wednesday and plead
guilty to petit larceny in the HerZer
case and fined So and costs. Wilson was
discharged and Nelson held on charge
OF grand larceny in the Brothers case.
Herzer received his money.