Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-18
Sept. 18th, 1880.
THE BAD LITTLE BOY.

He Was Brought Ints Court Yesterday and
Severely AdmOnished for His Misds-
meanors.
The story of Willie Meshin should be a
sad warning to all good little Sunday
school boys who never 60 a%-fshing, or
make a sneak on circus tent, nor dc
other naughty things to get them into
trouble. Willie was brought before hiz-
zoner yesterday OF a henious charge, and
as the old man sized him up he blubbered
like a yearllng, and said he hoped it
wouldn't 60 hard with him. AS he stood
before the frowning front of justice he cut
quite a figure.
He is about twelve years old and he tow
headed, with large freckles on his broad,
open face as big as field daisies. He wore
a calico shirt and jacket and his pants
were painfully short, while they were gen.
erously ventilated by two openings in the
skylight, the whole outfit looking as
though they had been picked before they
we're ripe; as for his shoes-well, his feet
had grown through them and they didn't
amount to much any way. 1t was evident
that he was in hard luck. The
charge was larceny, and it
consisted Of stealing apples from a
stall at the Market house. AS he stood
up for sentence he looked as if he had
committed seventeen murders and just
been sentenced to death. When asked if
he had stolen the apples he said he just
put a few in his pocket for fun; the court
asked to see them and he drew from his
ragged pants three or four shrivelled up
o-nL onDla, Tbie WOE foo n.roA. &Ia f,oa
of the kind hearted judge became puzzled
with trying to keep down his merriment,
and he told the prisoler that while he
could appreciate a boy who could make a
sneak Oh an orchard and cabbage q couple
of big, red. ripe apples, he had no time or
sympathy for a boy who would descend to
stealing crab apples; for such q boy hardly
any punishment was too severe; this time,
however, he would not send him to the
Reform school, but if ever arrested fol-
stealing crab apples again, the court as
sursd him that he would send him up I'M
til he was twsnty-ene.
$50 far as you are concerned" said
Judge Burr to N. johnson, up for beating
mis- wife yesterday, "you deserve to be
tied to a stake and whipped
until you fall to pieces.'
The while the prisoner s%ullenly bent his
head and his wife stood by and wept as if
her heart must break. Johnson is a burly
fellow and he beat the frail little creature
| until broad, red stripes all ever her culver
ing body, showed the result of his brutal.
ity. Still she wanted to get him off for
| her baby's sake, and besides he was good
she said, when he was not drinking. After
a good talking to he took the pledge for a
year and was released.
Casper Ulick was arrested on the charge
of stealing a COW from John Albreth, OF
| Saltwater; he said that he took it, but that
the man owed him wages and it was the
| only way he could collect the debt. He
was taken to Saltwater by Officer Schaef-
fer.
This is a queer world and sometimes the
tables suddenly turned. A. Christensen
and j. Gunderson were mp for assault and
O.. Matsen appeared as the prosecuting
witness. When the testimony came
out it appeared that Matson
and the other man had engaged in a fight,
and that Gunderson had stepped in as
peace maker. Somehow the wrong man
was arrested. Gunderson was discharged,
and the others were fined $40 each.
j. Flick got drunk and whooped it up by
shooting off his gun on Rosabel street. He
was fined twenty bills.
Peter WEIGH and M. Flaherty had fought
a battle in the Sixth ward, and they paid
con ooob