Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-03
P0Es0E R0isFs,

Tom Hood, the horse thief, plea d
guilty this morning and was sent to
Jail.
One person for failing to lay side
walk, and two for violating health
ordinances, had further time given
them to-day.
Most Of the female prisoners are
put to washing windows and the bal.
ance, who can be made use of in no
other way, are either sent to Jail or put
on the gang.
For the benefit Of strangers It is
stated that tie peculiar formation
pendant from the ceiling Of the court
room cannot be classed as stalactites,
1t is only dilapidated wall paper.
The manufacture of "taffy on a
stick" may be among tie lost arts, but
there is any quantity of "taffy on the
bench" The reporters were sticky
with it when they left the Police
Court room to- day.
A twenty minute session and So in
cash to-day-forty cents minute. At
that rate the Taxing District will soon
be able to build a new stationhouse.
The only trouble is, the mill doesn' 1
grind long enough. So
Will Ackeman, a bootblack with
communistic tendencies, who resisted
the right Of another boy to monopolize
profitable corner, will serve eight
days on the gang, shining up the cob
bles on the great big streets.
Voss Boyd, who lives near the race
track, was put on trial to-day for fail
ing to appear as a witness against two
darkies who were accused Of breaking
into his house. He plead sickness
in his family, and was discharged.
A painter named NJ. j. M2son asked
the loan Of half dollar yesterday, and
his friend gave him five dollar bill
to change. Mason failed to return
with the change. He was finally ar
rested but as there was no prosecution
to-day he was discharged.
Hannah Jones and Savannah Will
liams, who are accused of swearing
falsely in the Criminal Court yester-
day, with the hope of acquitting
Andy Russell, the turkey thief who
was sentenced TO three years, will have
a hearing before Squire Quigley to-
day.
Of dozen cases torday three we're
for drunkenness, two for perjury, one
for failing to obey subpoena, one for
fraudulent appropriation, One for horse
stealing, two for "doctoring" another
mans wife, one for discrderly conduct
and one a suspicious character. Five
were fined, two paid and three we're
handed over to the changing, their
sentences aggregatiug 40 days.
1t is understood that three of the
Board of Public Works and two of
the Fire and Police Commissioners
favor paying the police SIS per month,
They serve IL hours out Of every "a.
half at night, Sundays and holidays.
The signal for enjoyment with other
people is the signal for harder work
with them. Those who ought to know
say this can be done without increasing
the tax.
Patrolman Plummer, colored, asked
Long Lee, darky whom he found in
company with a countryman named j.
Haines, to give an account OF himself.
Lees long tale was not satisfactory
andhe was brought into Court. Haines
said his version" was that he was
drunk, as he had been great many
few" times in his life, and that when
in that condition he had no more
sense than a Jay bird" His Honor
agreed with him and discharged the
case.
A colored sister ate some Cuttings
yesterday and complained an hour or
two afterward of being sick. Natu-
rally she accused Mollie Wagner and
Susie Wells, who donated the chit
lings, Of an attempt to poison her, and
they were arrested. In court to day
the pseudo classic Judge remarked
aside that it was sort OF a Lucretia
BOrgia case. The whisper was loud
enough, however, to reach the ear Of
the classic attorney, who sprang up as
if somebody had trodden on his corns,
clutched the table convulsively and
whispered Numerically, "Sir-r-r?"
The Judge promptly retracted, peace
was secured and the women were dis
charged, His Honor cOntenting him
self with remarking that "pizened
Cuttings were new wrinkle in jeal-
ousy."