Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-23
HEAPS OF TROUBLE,
ouarreling Neighbors Before Judg,
Buckley YesIerdax-

ouarreling Neighbors Before Judge
Buckley Yesterday.
Judge Buckley had to deal YESTERDAY
with the most unpleasant class of cases
that come before the Police Court-quarrels
| among neighbors. There is always a
direct conflict of testimony, and it is often
very difficult to decide which is right. The
most prominent case on the calendar yes
| terday was that of Mrs. Lizzie Desmond
charged with disturbing the peace of Mrs.
A. Adams, her next door neighbor. Mrs.
Adams, who resides at pa n street, testi-
| fed that on Thursday one of her mothers
| chickens got over into Mrs. Desmond's
| yard and the latter threw it over the fence
| dead whereupon Mrs. Adams mother.
| Mrs Garcier, told Mrs. Desmond that she
was a brute 10 kill the little chicken
Then Mrs. Desmond commenced to call
her bad names and to threaten her lie.
! She also said she would burn down their
| house.
| Mrs. Caroline Garcier testified to SUBJ
stantially the same thing, both the wit
| nesses detailing very bad language used bv
! the defendant.
Mrs. CHM, a neighbor, was called as a
witness for the defendant She said that
she heard a chicken in Mrs Desmond's
yard which was being worried by the dog
and told Mrs. Desmond she ought TO put it
over the fence before the dog killed it.
Mrs. Desmond put the chicken over the
fence and NJ S Garcier called her brute
when Mrs. Desmond struck her broom on
the fence and some one from the other side
SHE'D a pie plate over into Mrs. Desmond's
yard. Witness then retired to her own
house and heard no more of the trouble.
Cornelius Desmond testified that his wife
put the chicken over the fence very gently,
and that Mrs. Garcier called her out
rageous names. He did not hear his wife
call Mrs. Adams any bad names.
Mrs. Desmond, the defendant, excitedly
denied having used any bad language. It
was evident from her manner that she.
when excited, has no control over her
self. She was examined as to her sanity
short time ago and the Commission did not
consider her insane enough to send to
the asylum. After her arrest at that time,
her husband preferred charges against
officer Mclaughlin, alleging that he had
handled her roughly, but the Police Com
missioners dismissed the case and entirely
exonerated the officer. When she was on
the stand yesterday she kept the audience
in roar of laughter by her grotesque
antics.
When Judge Buckley pronounced her
guilty she replied: No, you'll not find me
guilty" but the Judge insisted that he did
and ordered her to appear for sentence to-
day.
TWO TOUGH BOYS.
James Lewis and James Hughes, two of
the toughest boys in the city, were tried on
charge of disturbing the peace of Mrs.
Mary Bender. The countenances of both
are familiar in the Police Court. Hughes
is the boy who stabbed young Dawson a
few weeks ago, and Lewis has been in Jail
for assaulting a Ckinaman and other of
lenses. 1t appeared from the evidence of
Mrs. Bender that they went to her house,
on Z street, between Seventh and Eighth,
took off her door and carried it away,
pulled the baby buggy, containing
small child, out into the alley and left it
standing there, and attempted to drag the
sewing machine out of the house.
The boys testified in their own behalf
Hughes said that his grandmother, Mrs.
Kehoe, owned the house and had sent them
there to collect the rent. The Benders had
not paid any rent for fifteen months, and
he wanted To get them out. Lewis took
the door off and he carried it home, as he
thought he could freeze them out"
Lewis had gone with him TO see that Mrs.
! Bender did not hurt him while he was tax
1850
tenant.
Judge Buckley found them both guilty.
| and will pronounce sentence upon them
to-day. He gave them q very sharp lee
| ture, in which he said that they were COM
ing before the Court altogether too often,
| and were on the road to the State Prison.
THE BENDER TROUBLES.
Peter Bender and Mrs. Mary Bender were
charged by Mrs. Julia Kehoe with mali
| cious mischief, in breaking down and de-
stroying picket fence and defacing the
house in which they live, and which is
owned by the prosecuting witness. Mrs.
kehoe said they rented the house wear
ago last March and had only paid one
| months rent, So. Since then she had not
been able to collect anything. They had
| damaged the property to the extent of
| $500. She had never seen either of the de-
PENDANTS destroy any of the property, but
had seen their son saving up pickets for
| tirewood. The Blenders were found not
guilty.
James Perry was charged with battery
upon his wife. He asked for time to bring
witnesses to show that he was the mildest
kind OF man, and that his wife only
| imagined that she was abused. The case
was continued until this morning
Chris. Thompson pleaded guilty to being
drunk. As it was his first offense he was
discharged.
The case of E. H. Carpenter, charged
with obtaining money under false preten-
ses, was dismissed for want of prosecution.
Steve Nolan was fined 81 so for disturb
ing the peace.