The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-16
POLICE COURT PICKINGS.
Judge Speirs Handles the
F'lail Of Justice.
And Makes Disturbers, Par
takers of Ardent Spirits,
etc., Dance to His Tunes.

Last week was rather a dull one
at Justice Speirs' Sanctum still, he
showed the magnetic SCOOP" OF
the law into the pockets Of Several
offenders, greatly to the enrichment
of the city treasury.
ALL FOR HIS GIRL.
Last week a man named John
Allen, approached j. Leviberg and
said that he was just in town, had
no money, and wanted to take bis
girl TO the Abbott opera. He
wanted to borrow enough money to
take in the show, and offered to
leave 1000 ivory checks in security
Leviberg told him he hadn't time
to talk with him, and the man left.
A little later, when Leviberg went
TO get his overcoat from the ad
joining room, he found that three
silk handkerchiefs, of the value OF
81, one pair of kid gloves. valued at
ST. and SOC. in money had been
stolsn from his pockets. He went
out and finding Allen across the road
searched him and discovered some
of the property on his person. He
was arrested and Justice Speirs fined
him $50 He is a good-looking, well.
dressed young man about 25 years o!
age and uses good language. He
claimed that he found the articles,
but circumstances were so greatly
against him that His Honor SEN
fenced him as mentioned. His grl
didn't 60 to the opera.
RECORD FOR FEBRUARY.
The police court calendar shows
last months business up as follows
Drunkenness, 81; battery, 5; drunk
and prorane, Is; keeping gambling
house, 4; vagrancy, 4; exposing per-
son, J.; prostitution, L; larceny, g.;
drunk and urbance,4 destroying
property, 1; lewd conduct, 2; dis
turbance, q; fighting, 3;resisting of.
ficers, 1; keeping house of iii fame,4;
malicious mischief, 1: selling liquor
to Indians, 2; selling liquor on Sum-
day, 1. Total, los. Cash fines for
month, S1.4S3; labor on public
works. 1857; appealed TO District
Court, $50.
PAY BAY FOR BOYS IN BLUE.
A few days ago was pay day at
the Fort, and great mum Der of our
cOuntry's defenders took advantage
Of the opportunity and paid the city
q visit, being treated with such hos
pitaIity by the officers thai will not
soon be forgotten. They voted them.
selves the freedom of the city, and
early in the day started in with the
aof having a good time
and furnishing entertainment for
he officers. Many of them were
aiken in and done for at the ex-
eense OF the corporation, and the in.
terviews with the judge were very
His honor has a pc
,uliar way of speaking; his powers
If conversation are great, and his
words always leave great impress
ion upon the minds-and pockets
# his visitors.
The soldier captured q week ago
" Marshal Phillips and Officer
smith was tried and fined $25 and
;osts, simply for an assault. The
rave charge Of INSTRUMENTATION IS
felOny-was dropped. The other
wo men, who were the worst, have
ut yet been discovered, as the
officers could not recognize them.
t is a pity that such men should
escape the justice they so richly de-
erve.
PICKINGS.
A soldier rejoicing in the eu-
,honous title Of Xavier Funck was
nulcted SO for drunk and dis
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Emil Horrick, a man wearing
clothes of a like color, was assessed
$50 for drunkenness, disorderly and
ewd conduct.
VIM. kraus and Annie Phillips
or leWd conduct were fined $50 each.
Ten men for drunkenness were
lined S. esch.
Two for drunk and profanity $40
each; two for fighting $40 each;
tour Tor larceny So. One man, Geo.
Edgar, fer battery on Lawyer S. J.
Jonasson, was fined S15 and costs.
One for disturbance $40.
CHICKEN CHARLEY'S RIVALS,
Four young boys residing in the
Eleventh ward being strongly i'm
pressed with the colored posters an
nouncing the "Hoop of Gold" per-
formsnces decided-conae what may
to take it in; SO they began
scheming ss TO the mode Of getting
the wherewith to take them to the
upper galleries. This was clincher,
and they were about to give it up,
when they caught sight Of the
highly sensational picture s'Take
my life, but spare my body" and
their minds we're made up. They
would go. The manner OF getting
the required pass money was argued,
and after consideration the ring
leader suggested raid on the then
quiet hen roosts, which was agreed
to by all. So they lsbored in the