Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-14
PAPA HAD DEN

AND HOW He THE PAUPER
pRUNKS.
Fine, large audience-better cloth thar
usual predomiuating.
The case in which J. F. Foster is charged
with larceny was continued.
Nicholas Christ, white, and Willie Robin.
Son and Albert Green, calored, were lined 81
each for Sleeping in an empty railway car.
The dockeis of Saturday aud Sunday mum.
bered thirty-six cases, embodying almost
every phase of violation OF the laws and or.
dinances. %
A white man named Skidmore, for being
drunk and exposing his person, was fined So
lie plead an unconscious state of intoxica.
ton, but it costs him So alice samee.
The Little Attorney General was "alls
brokee upee" yesterday morning on accoun
Of the diminuiveness of the fee real I'd for
the able defense of the "Heathen Chinee'
Saturday.
Lizzie Springer, colored, was said to bav,
been disorderly. She said she wssu't. Sac
was hit with a siove.pips and 'hollered.
"All right" said hls honor, "Ill ust tax Vol
IS for holierin'."
The name of Marion Boyd, alias Cobb
charged with murder, was responded TO by
the chief Of police, who stated that he had
been turned over to the Murfreesboro author
tiles and sent back.
The necessity of a new s~tationhouse anC
new police courtroom i. daily aztec
by the increasing audiences and the feuI
atmosphere that prevails in the badly ven,
tiiated old barn at present. occupied.
A case of resisting an officer furnished
material for a couple of rousiDg legal argu-
ments for the defrnse. The Courts summing
up OF the evidence and circu instances was a
mastery effort in the line Of police jurIs.
prudence.
1t would excite the envy Of tn, most ex.
pert ~linguist 10 hear the b ,ss of the Police
Court MARBLE legal technicsi terms, especially
',partieeps crfminis," in which every syllable
and all the vowel sounds are accented with
the most profound precision.
Henry Davis, colored, crawled into an
empty car on the Little Rock track 10 ''couri
natures sweet %restorer, bslmy sleep" and wss
pulled, and a charge of trespsss lodged
against his name. He plead poyerty and
illness, and was let go with a warning.
Thomas aud John johnson ard joseph
Miller. all white, charged with attempting to
commit rape on complaint of LIZZIE Pope,
%colored, were present In person and by attor.
ney. Alter some time spent in discussing
the question OF severance, the Judge turned
ihs case over TO Justice Quigley.
Two young SOUS of sunny Italy, named A.
Richardson and S. Raggio, undertook their
fret airing on horseback Sunday, and 10 do
it up we'll secured fiery, unnamed steeds, and
charged up and down the principal thorough
fares until reaching the corner Of Fourth and
Jefferson, they ran Mr.. Powell down to earth,
be having thrown himself ia the way TO pre-
vent them running over Mr.. Donahoe's chill
drep. R1ggio's plea was that his horse go,
mad and unmanageable. 1t cost, and he was
let of with a $40 note, while his companion
had TO put up $40.
The charge against Cornelius Lane, color
ed, for resisting an officer, and his wife for
assault with a knife, claimed the attention OF
the Court an hour or more, there being three
attorneys engaged for the defense. Corne-
lius's conduct had placed him in the cate
CORY OF that class Of loafers which the Cour;
n srspeetealy iustructed the officers to lot (
out for and bring in-loafers about saloons
and other public places. Officer j ackson had
Correiius in his minds eye for some time az
one enjoying the freedom of the city withou,
putting up anything that might b called
work in return. Meeting Cornelius Saturday
evening the officer told him he would have
to step up to headquarters. Cornelius swore
he'd be id If he would do anything of the
kind; he wss q free man, living Oh his own
money, and the officer had no right TO charge
him with vsgrsncy. Officer Jackson preferred
to have the matter settled in C. urt, and pro
ceeded 10 take Lane by force, but Lane and
his wife resisted, the wife poking The officer
about the head with an old case knife while
he was trying TO get the "nippers" on the up.
ruly SPOUSE. The lawyers erdeavored to
make the point that the officer had exceeded
his authority, but the Court failed to zee it,
and fined Lane snd wife s. each.