Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-15
Yesterdays Police and Court
house Notes.

Yesterdays Romeo anu court
! house Notes.
The Auditing Board will begin ia
issue bonds this week.
Henry Osborne and bis wife, Ella,
we're 6ned $40 each for general disor.
| Derby conduct.
! Deeds we're recorded yesterday from
| Mary G.. Webb to V. j. Barrows;
Henry G.. Smith to Frederick VOll'
mer.
! Thomas Shoals was fined dollar
| for skinning COW in the corporation.
| A witness declared he saw him when
be "skun" it.
Eugene Hume, q sewing machine
agent, was taken to Little Rock Sun
day, where he is said to be wanted for
embezzlement.
John Henderson, an alleged Coli
lierville house-burner, was being tried
in the Criminal Court yesterday, for
the second time.
| One prowler was nabbed early Sun
day morning and discharged yesterday
on his promise to do his prowling in
the country hereafter.
THE women are about to take the
town believe, remarked the Judge
yesterday, with restless, broomstick
expression on his face.
Judge Hadden had new suit
yesterday morning, and the way he
| did spread them coattails" and make
| the plain DRINKS toe the mark was a
sight.
James Smith was sentenced to pay
| $50 and serve six months imprison-
ment in the Criminal Court yesterday
for assault and battery on Phineas
Starr.
The Sheriff has collected about
$4,000 back taxes from the Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Tenth
wards. The back tax payer is not
very spry.
Two unruly boot blacks, Hope
Black and George Pratt, both the
color of lamp black, were sent back
with sore backs yesterday after whacks
by their parents.
The lady who threatened to shoot
the officer who attempted TO arrest
her for failure to lay sidewalk was
brought into court to-day and given
ten days to do the work.
He said his name was not Mary and
that he never heard of Mary's little
lamb. He was fined So and held as a
witness against Jake Storz, from
whom he said he got his whisky.
A conclusion is about to be reached
as to the amount Of each thousand
dollar bond to be issued by the Aud
iting Board in liquidation OF old city
indebtedness. The face will probably
be $l145.
A rough and tumble fight which
nobody could unravel was adjudicated
by the Judge yesterday, who fned
them ten dollars apiece, certain that
he would hit the nail on the head
somewhere.
Mary Purr, who was locked up Sun
day evening for drunkenness, swore
right straight along in favor of Ella
Barella, but her testimony was ami
hilated when Turnkey Hedrick said
he heard Ella promise to pay her fine
for doing it.
Miss Mary Jones, who still wears
her masculine rig appeared before
Judge Hadden yesterday with her
pants oiled up to her knees to be
tried for stealing an overcoat from
Nose Brown. He proved it and she
went to Jail.
Tim Pendergast laughed all over
his face when he plead guilty to plain
drunk, but his features suddenly
assumed the garb of woe when the
Judge declared he csuld see the point,
and fined him the regular rate and
no discount for cash.
Judge Hadden, expecting a rush,
ordered more benches in the Police
| Court for festival week. He was de-
terl1ined the crowd should have ad
vantage OF the cheap rates to come in
to see his performance, and that they
shall be comfortably provided for.
Were you drunk?" asked an attor.
ney Of witness. II wasn't as full as
he was" witness answered. "How do
you know" persisted the lawyer.
"Oh, | didn't measure him, but the
court has his measure, l think" was
the reply, which settled the oontrs-
versy.
I'll make it old fifteen for you,
Sandy Hicks" said the Judge yester-
day. -Four policemen were required
to handle the ebon hued gentleman,
who, not content with the usual fun
INDUCED in by DRINKS, abused a
couple Of ladies and drove them into
their store.
Sergeant Kunholz arrested John
Watkins alias Spelman as he stepped
from the train at the Memphis and
Charleston depot yesterday. The
matter of his offense is not known,
though he says a Grand function
man, whose wife ran away short time
ago, thinks he induced her to leave
home.
! Sheriff Cannon went to jackson
Sunday night in charge Of the follow.
ing darkies who have appealed their
cases to the Supreme Court: Cary
Carroll, George Jones, Emanuel Berry,
larceny, and Louis Williams, alias
Walker Austin, rape. They we're all
tried and sentenced by Judge Ed
ridge at Bartlett.
Miss Ella Barella has come to sud-
den grief at last. A fuzzy faced youth
named AL Brawdy accused her Of
stealing $40 from him last Thursday
night. He saw her ransack his coat,
vest and pantaloons aud finally his
socks, where she found the cash and
at once appropriated it to her own use
She was bound over.
III ever there was demoraligad duda