The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-01-05
THE COURTS.
The Fate of a Few Who did Not
Swear off.
Opening of the Criminal Calen-
dar for the New Year.
POLICE COURT.


His honor. Snvder's New Years levee,
was attended by four weak minded indi-
viduals of lustful inclinations, John Davis
and Bill Jones, who are doubtless much
better known TO their friends by other
names, were fined s. each for unbecOmlng
dalliance with the soiled doves, Lilly West
and Sallie Adams, whose mothers would
scarcely know them by those names, Lilly
and Sallie were in turn fined SO each, -
for keeping the company OF the male COM
psnions and IS for being females, presum-
ABLY, they paid - each and were given
ten-days' stay to secure the remaining hall
of the assessed Indebtedness 10 the city.
Yesterday George Smith was arraigned
for kicking up a row and disturbing the
peace generally. He pleaded guilty to
being little boisterous and was let of
with $ fine.
MARvIN's COURT.
In Justice 4. arvin's court yesterday the
case of the alleged highway performance
of AL Higdon and S. A. Morris, came up
for hearing. A jury was empannelled;
the evidence heard and at Its close AttOr-
new Lamm said he saw no grounds for the
complaint and at his request the defendants
were discharged.
HAIsTEAD's COURT.
Justice Halstead began operations Tor
1856 Yesterday by sitting in judgment upon
the notorious Missouri Fry, as dark and
devilish dam-sel, spelled with double
at that, as ever disgraeed MisSOuri's fair
fame. Missouri was brought in by Con-
stable Bird, on warrant charging her with
using more cusS words than statutes allow
towards Mary Wright, another dusky dam
sci, and in other ways disturbing the peace
and happiness of that fair daughter of
Ham. After hearing the evidence his
honor told Missouri that Il and costs
would appease angered justice. she paid
up and departed, vowing she would get
the worth of her money out OF Mary's hide
| If she had to take the whole skin.
Rifles COURT.
Justice Rife was called upon to adjudi-
cate couple of complaints OF infractiOn
of law, the first one being that of Mrs
Jones. the wife of the festive VIM. Jones
whose weakness lies i'm fOndness for the
bottle. Mrs. Jones alleges that she has no.
titled Messrs. RObb and Fisher, as the law
directs. that her husband is a confirmed
drunkard, and warned them not to furnish
him further rations of distilled damnatiOn
but that notwithstanding all this they
have, on several and diverse occasion:
presumed to do so, all of which is in def
ance of the laws made and provided, and
she therefore prays that the penalty for
such offense lie exacted from the said RObt
and Fisher The case was set for hearing
next Monday.
The next call on his honor was from
Jack Craig, who complains that Ed Parker
and John Cheek celebrated their New
Years day by giving him thump-
ing. Parker and Cheek ap-
peared for trial, but their case:
were also continued over until Monday
Cheek claims that he is the one who did
the thnmping and that Parker neve
touched Craig. His story is, that he anC
Parker went into a saloon to get drins
and that because he would not treat Craig
Craig struck him on the back OF the necl
such blow as would have felled him bu
for the support of the counter. Cheel
then, at the request of the barkeepe,r pu
Craig out, but he Immediately returned
and again struck Cheek, who basted hin
a straight shoulder hit on the snoot.