Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-24
POLICE POINTS.

Yesterday was q field day for the police
The drunks all had good excuses to.
day
Several suspicious characters were in.
spected by the force and allowed to 90.
Bill Lyles ingenious plea that this twas
the first time he ever got in the habit Of
getting drunk, secured his release with q
rsprimAnd.
There Is not much money in the
court" said the Judge this morning as
he raked in ten dollars, the result Of the
trial Of two dozen cases.
E. NJ. Bradshaw from Pride Station.
Ala, got off a boat at the landing yester-
day and wound up in the calaboose. The
Court remarked that he was the first man
from Alabama he had seen and lot him
20.
Officer Jenny saw two men fighting on
Madison street yesterday, and arrested
them. This put them both in a good
humor, they put up forfeits for each other
and went away as smiling as two cherubs.
II was drunk but not disabled, judge
said hard-of-hearing young man, who
was arrested on Madison street yesterday.
He was very deaf when Intercepted. but
heard the word discharged very dis.
tinctly and departed in haste.
Peter Cullins, who came all the way
from Cincinnati, said he had not made the
trip before in ten years. "Did you get
drunk theng' was asked. mo, sir
"That's how you were fooled, then. Mem
phis whisky is heap stronger now than il
was ten years ago. Steer clear of il here
after, Peter"
The police arrested Henry Meyers and
Dave Kirtz, white and Bill Camel, colored,
yesterday for standing about doing moth
ing. They were asked if they attended
the ball last night and denied the charge
They promised to emigrate to pastures new
and were discharged.
At the Exposition building, last night.
Officer Peters was informed that a young
man named w. w james, from Chatta-
nooga, had a pistol, and arrested him. The
pistol was found in his pocket, and though
the young man was known to be sober
and industrious, the customary punish
ment was inficted-s50.
A fourteen-year-old girl. who went to
the mask ball at the Exposition last night,
went home with some young men after
wards, and was found by her mother, to-
whom she refused 10 open the door. The
police wore called on, but as the girl was
already hardened in crime nothing could
be done except to threaten and lot her go.
The Judge expressed himself surprised
to lind Jim Connell present to answer the
same old charge, and Jim expressed him
self the same way. But Jim has a stand
ing claim on the Judges leniency, in the
shape Of a number of old rickety houses.
Whenever arrested for being drunk he
promises to tear them down at once if dis
charged, and ON that plea and promise
was discharged to-day. If jim intends to
cling to the cup he had better let those
houses stand.
Jim james went to the ball last night
as George Washington. and when about
to leave was accosted by one of the
officers with Good by, Mr.. Washing
tonl' He grew savage and used very vile
language and was arrested The Judge
remarked to-day that if he had been in
plain clothes he would not fine him, but
ms he had assumed the character Of the
father of his country only to disgrace it,
his patriotism would not allow him to do
otherwise than lnAict a punishment, which
he fixed ut $40
A great big, ragged, dirty, blear-eyed
fellow, who said his name was w. A.
Wright, from Forked Deer river, was
brought in for being drunk, and when
asked if he went down to the spaking last
night said: "No, ! did not get there in
time, but was deputized by the people
of my district to come down here and an
swer General Bate He intended to hire
the operahouse and address the people to-
night, ifthe Judge would kindly pay his
fine and lot him 60 He was discharged,
and as he marched out adjusted his old
white hat and said 81 am not so drunk
as / look, Judge. It's just my natural
condition.