The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-27
BEFORE THE MAYOR.
Giimpses of Character in the City Court on
Monday Morning.

"James Yaw." said acting Mayor Smock
opening his usual Monday catechism. ''you are
charged with drunk; what is your plea9'
James gazed across the bar--quite different
one from that he had sailed across several times
on schooner the day bofore-at the prosecutor,
then at the Squire, and with gloomy penitence
dropped the single word guilty"
what do you say to assault and battery on
George Wilson,
Mr. Yaw gasped two or three times, rolled his
eyes helplessly and said nothing He evidently
had little recollection of any meeting with Mr.
Wilson, as he sailed. Mr.. Wilson was placed
in the witness-box for his inspection. He was
ten years old and appeared in court with a shirt
under his arm, which he averred that Yaw had
torn off his back after having knocked him down
and kicked him.
A police officer testified that Yaw had been
drunk every Sunday for many successive Sab
baths. He said his depredations last Sunday
were on South Tennessee street, near the heel
works. and that his conversation was h-gAly
favored with profanity. He was fined $l8 and
COSTS indicating sojourn of forty-five days at
the work-house.
sBring in Ed Martin"
Martin is a young man, and totally blind.
sYour Honor I was little drunk
"What is your plea, Edg'
equity"
Five dollars and costs. Martin is q regular
patron.
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young woman, shabbily dressed, with a
hunted-look in her eyes, and sallow, unhealthy
complexion, pleaded guilty to lettering in the
parks. poor GIRL said his Honor, 'she doesn't
leok very bright. I'll make it as light for her as
can, but the law is the law" Ten days in the
work-house.
Sergeant. bring in George Greenhouse and
Chris Field"
years old. arrested for entering Meyers feed
store on Massachusetts avenue When before
his Honor, Field said his name was Alonso
Evans He lives on Morris street, with a wild
owed mother. Greenhouse lives on Illinois
street, between Michigan and Vermont-nearly
mile and half apart Evans said he had
found eleven keys on a piece Of wire. They
needed hundred dollars with which to buy
clothes, as they wanted to run off to Louisville
He had said to Greenhouse: Lets try and get
in some store, and get some money" One of
the keys happened to fit the feed-store door, and
they went in. All they got was four or FIVE
postage stamps, and three cents IN copper
His Honor: 'Take them up to the Criminal
Court IL that court will let them out on a float
er conditioned on good behavior, it will be all
right Bond 800 in each case. Mighty bad
business, boys"
''Yassir.r.
Three women from Cleaveland Block were
brought in charged with prostitution. The pro-
cession, as they filed into the dock was headed
by woman forty or forty five years old, with a
1inty eye and a nose that seemed ready to snort
defiance The second woman was few years
younger, while the last was hardly more than a
child a girl perhaps fifteen years old, and in
short dresses. Their witnesses were not at
hand, and his Honor continued the case, allow
ing them to go on their own recognizance.
Sergeant Stout no poor Judge of what's what
by reason of long attendance at the Mayors
court, expressed himself: ''If his Honor had
left it to me I'd have locked 'em up"