Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-24
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
HIS NAME Is EDWARD.
MIR. Doran Objects to Being Called
fBrock" Ia the Papers.


"BrOck" Ia the Papers.
Mr. Edward Doran, whose name has ap-
peared incorrectly in the city papers great
many times in connection with Police
Court cases, was in the dock again yester-
day morning, charged with having been
drunk. The name invariably appears on
the calendar as Brock Doran, and the
reporters have thus been unwittingly led
into sn error which they will no doubt
avoid in the future, after the statement the
gentleman made yesterday. Doran is not
bad man by any means, but he will get
drunk. Let him tell his own story:
II plead guilty, your Honor, said Doran,
when he was called upon to plead, but
there are mitigating circumstances. l had
Just served a term of ten days on q SEN
tence which your Honor pronounced, and
which was no doubt Just have no COM
plant TO make about that. | have nothing
TO say against the police force They are a
lot or competent men and seem to do their
duty, but there seems TO be couple of
them that follow me continually. They
watch me as if was Black Bart or Jimmy
Hope, or any of those notorious charac-
ters.
VINO is Jimmy Hope" interrupted the
City Attorney"
Nj Church, l suppose most everybody
VINO reads the Police Gazette knows who
Jimmy Hope is?"
Who is Black Bari?'
He is another one that everybody
knows who reads the papers | was only
out about six hours, your Honor, when |
landed back again. / have no desire, as l
have often said, of coming before you, but
it seems really that if get into little bit
of an argument on the street, which of
course q man will do this time of year
when politics is running high, a man is
likely 70 get IN here on one side or the
other. 1t seems to me that they bring me
right away when they hear my voice at
all
You mean that they have political
bias sgaiDs: you ?" asked the Judge
Well, l don't know that they have, but
they bring me in. l have been twenty-four
years here among Sacramento people, and
| do not know that there has been any bad
charge against me. Ii is bad enough to get
drunk, but have never robbed a stage or
murdered anybody, nor have | ever in
suited q woman or child. think this is
not very bad record for that length of
time
- How long had you been out before you
took drink % asked the City Attorney.
1T was couple of hours. | refused sew
eral drinks during that time. | was going
up X street and met the Nicolaus stage,
and heard some one call out, On, Block.
1t was q man / worked with up at Nicolaus
last summer, and he paid me S2 that l had
loaned him, and asked me to take a drink
protested that l had just got out and
didn't want to drink and wanted 10 keep
out of those places, and | stuck to it for
quite awhile, but somehow l took drink
and, Of course, that is just how it started
If a man would not take the first he would
be always right.
Another thing your Honor. | have no
business at all to see my name in the Sac
rsmento press every night and every morn
ing. They have got it very plain. 1t is
either Old Brock or Brock Doran. 1t is
enough to drive man with any common
sense on his way to Stockton or Napa.
Maybe those reporters don't know my real
name. Well, they know enough. That is
the name 60 by among my fellow work
ingmen. II they would put my right name
down then probably people would not
know me outside"
What is your right name2n
Ny name is Edward Dorap, and there
vas a good deal of trouble taken about
christening me-more than there was about
any OF the editors OF the two papers,"
Mr.. Doran declined to enter into q de-
scription of the scenes at the christening,
saying that the present case was of too Sc
rious character TO bring in irrelevant
matters.
Judge Buckley decided to let MIR. Doran
go this time, on promise to do his best to
keep sober.
G. W. Shorge, japanese servant, was
tried on charge of petit larceny and ac-
quilted. He was defended by Hiram John
son. 4 FELLOWSHIP belonging to the COM
planning witness had been found in his
valise, but it could not be shown how il
got there.
Peter McGann pleaded guilty TO vagrancy
and was sentenced to twenty days in the
County Jail. The commitment was with
held to give him an opportunity to leave
town, and he promptly ayailed himself Of
the chance.
John Rhendz was tried for battery and
acquitted. Il was shown that he simply
bounced man out of his hotel because the
latter did not leave when ordered.
The statement on appeal was filed in the
case of ". w. Cone, convicted OF embeZ-
element.
+. C. Hart asked for the dismissal OF the
charge of battery against Charles Roberts
who evaded both his trial and his bonds
men by fleeing TO Oregon. A charge o.
assault 10 murder has been put against the
refugee. The City Attorney entered pro
test against the dismissal, and asked thai
the deposit of $50 be forfeited. Judge
Buckley continued the matter until An
gust 50th.