Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-02
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Sentences.

Sentences.
Yesterday afternoon, in Department
One Of the Superior Court, George
Williams, who in the morning had been
held 10 answer in the Police Court for
felony in turning q switch in the railroad
yard, and who had intimated his willing
ness to plead guilty and receive his sen
tence at once, was arraigned before judge
Van Fleet. He entered the plea of guilty.
and, II response to questions of the Court
stated that he had committed the crime
While drunk. He claimed to have ALWAYS
conducted himself well previously. and
that he had never been in prison. Deputy
Sheriff Rice, on being Intercepted in
formed the Court that the prisoner was not
drunk, though he might have been drink
ing when arrested, and narrated the cir
cumstances of his drawing a knife when
placed under arrest. Ut may be mentioned
incidentally that the police say Williams
has served term of two years for grand
larceny, committeG in Sacramento a few
years ago. Judge Van Fleet imposed g
sentence Of three years in the State Prison
at Folsom upon the defendant After
the prisoner had received his sentence and
returned TO the jail, Deputy Sheriff Rice
had a conversation with him. He repeated
his assertion that he opened the switch
through drunken freak and not with
desire 10 hurt any one denied positively
that he had ever been in prison, and said
he never had any serious trouble, except q
Difficulty with man, who shot at him
he thanked the officer for the manner in
which he had treated him, which he spoke
OF as being gentlemanly, and requested
him 20 accept as a keepsake the large and
decidedly Misunderstanding pocketknife
which he drew upon him when arrested.
remarking that he would on that occasion
have cut the officer open if the latter had
not been too smart for him. He also re-
quested Rice to accept ring which he
wore, and which he priced very highly for
lis associations. Rice declined to accept
the ring, but agreed TO deposit it in place
OF security until the prisoners term should
expire. It had 10 be cut with a file before
Williams could get ii from his finger The
knife Rice proposes TO add to a collection of
similar souvenirs which he has gathered
during his long service as all officer. Will
Jams remarked before they separated "All
| have tod you is the truth / am not
hall IS bad man as several in the COM
pany employ, and some day the company
will find 1t OUT Officer Rice has received
many congratulations for his success in this
case, and the speed with which it was car
RED 10 conclusion
In the same Court yesterday sentence of
two years at Folsom was passed upon Terry
McMoTy, the young man who perpetrated
several burglaries of saloons and was
finally caught by officer Ash The boy
George Abbott, convicted of felony, was
sentenced TO one year in the same prison.
These youths are about Is years of age
DID NOT COME UP.-The bar at the Y
street bend of the river is growing worse.
and causing more serious trouble to steam
boatmen. The San joaquin No. g. going
down with barges of grain on Monday was
detained through the grounding of her
barges until \. NJ. yesterday, notwith-
standing the assistance of the Governor
Dana, and the Tightening Of the barges The
regular san Francisco steamer ModoC had
but about ninety tons of freight on her up
trip yesterday morning, and she unloaded
most OF that upon the barge Yolo below the
bar. Even then, when she tried to come
up to the city she stuck fast on the bar, and
Captain Fourratt concluded that it was
better to place the balance of the freight
upon the barge and LET the Governor Dana
tow the latter to the city, and take back
the down freight to the Modoc; which
after getting afloat tied up to the bank at
the bend. Captain Fourratt reports that
the Modoc found trouble in Chicory Reach,
few miles further down the river. where
for q considerable distance the water is
very shoal. The steamer got aground
twice. hard and fast, while coming through
the reach, even with her light load.
ARRESTS FOR THE Manufacturing the
month ofAucust the police made 252 arrests,
as follows; For disturbing the peace, % :;
misdemeanor, 8; petit larceny, 10; safe
keeping, SO; detained witnesses, =; yagran-
cv, Is, DRINKS. %; gaming, 90; on Sus-
piclon. IA burglary, l sodomv. battery.
-; exhibiting, ,; obtaining money under
false pretenses, ?; grand larceny, 3 !; keep
ing disorderly house, carrying concealed
weapons, ); insanity, 4; visiting opium
den, g; keeping an opium den, l.; assault
with deadly weapon, 1; runaway boys, 4
common drunkards, ! injured man. l de-
serter, ! felony, surrendered By bonds
men, robbery 3. During the month Is
dodgers were accommodated with beds, and
Ii prisoners en- route stopped over at the
station house.
GATHERED BY HAND.-An item in yes
terday's REooRD UNION referred to the large
quantity of carp taken from Fifteen-Mile
Lake week before last, and brought to this
city for sale A market proprietor from
whom the information had been obtained
supplemented it yesterday by saving that
he had since learned that the wholesale
capture OF the fiSh was in consequence of
the lake drying up. Parties discovered an
immense number of fish in the mud. and
literally gathered them with their hands.
Other bodies of water near the city contain
a greater or lesser number of the fish.
which are caught daily.
POLICE CoURr-In the Police Court yes-
terday w. g. Windsor was found guilty of
vagrancy. and sentenced to ten days in the
county JAIL. George Williams, who was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Rice for ma
hciously turning a switch in the railroad
yard, was examined and held to answer in
5000 bail. He made no defense see. Mi
chael Brown was convicted of disturbing
the peace, and will be sentenced this morn
ing
WILL Nor DRAW THE WARRANT-State
Controller Dunn yesterday stated that he
would not issue q warrant on the demand
signed by the Governor and Adiutant-Gen-
eral for the $40, 00o appropriated by the last
Legislature FOR the annual encampment of
the National Guard OF California 1t is un-
derstood that he will issue warrants for the
same upon demands signed by the officers
of the different commands.
SEE new advertisement of special fine
good. on sale to-day. Red House.
SACRAMENTO gray wool blankets, 8pounds.
s. 80 per pair. Red House.