The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-26
XMAS WITH THE POLICE,
Half q Hundred Arrests on Xmas Eve
and Day.

anu Lay.
While there was less drunkenness on
Christmas eve and morning than is usual
on day given up to festivities and pleas
ure, there were some whose appetite for
alcoholic stimulaIts was stronger than their
Judgment and Mayor Lester had to infiict
fines and penalties upon twenty-four prison
ers as the best Christmas gifts he had to
offer them. The sum of the fines aggre-
gated $211 or 444 days. Quite a number
were boys who had fired off the nerve-racS-
ing fire pepper in the charmed area north
of Liberty street. The entire police force
Of the city was either on duty all yesterday
or in reserve at the police barracks, but for
tunately the experience of Thanksgiving
day was not repeated.
There were fittv-one arrests made by
the police from 8 o'clock Monday morning
until O'Clock this morning, but it was
remarked last night by Chief of Police
Green and the officers on duty at headquar-
tiers that there were fewer prisoners found
with concealed weapons on their person,
only four in the two days, and less dis
order and trouble throughout the
city than is usual on Christmas day,
and the day preceding it. Most of the
prisoners are colored. "Bill" Williams was
caught as he ran with two giant frecrack-
ers stolen from Pano Pope's stall near the
market.
II. A. Rhett brought IN Jas. Baker and
lodged a charge against his prisoner of a
vicious assault upon him with q knife.
Samuel X. Willis and John M. Gibbs were
run in for fighting, and an ak helve was
taken from Willis, which he claims to have
taken from Gibbs to prevent G IBIS from
pulverizing him. Willis was half-seas over
aud carried church key, which Sergt. XII
ourhy turned over to one of the church
hat ia
be interrupted while Willis is sleeping of
his booze in the barracks
Hartman Cohen pulled out bunch of
Officer Halls whiskers in resisting arrest,
but was overcome and lodged in the bar
racks. Cohen is the one who figured in the
shooting ARRAY in Jennie Fulcher's rancho.
L. ID. Williams was arrested, charged
with stealing clothing from John Yaegar
at 1l3 Congress street.
Henry Jordan was arrested at Indian and
Farm streets for firing off revolver in
the streets. A double charge was placed
against him.
Charles Bardott was taken in by Officer
Baughn for crying out police, police" and
causing general excitement in the park.
Bardott was very noisy, and a flask Of
whisky and two bottles Of beer accounted
for his hallucination that some one wanted
a policeman.
A brace of colored thieves stole brush,
comb and mirror from Byck's Florida curio
store, on Broughton street, the day before
Christmas. The proprietor caught one Of
the negroes. recovered the brush, aud, find
ing no policeman near 20 thru the prisoner
over 10, gave the fellow good punching
ami let him go. The other escaped
Officer Maner was roughly handled by a
trio of intoxicated negro women at East
Broad and Bay streets IN tho afternoon aud
his watch was wrecked. IL was turned
over q him last night badly out Of joint,
being Ia no leH than half dozen pieces
re- was alt1Dip ing . arrest one Maria
uarIis, Wien Cornelia Washington a. al