The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-29
BAD MEN LOCKED Up.
The Police Caught Several
Crooks Yesterday.
GAMBLERS PAY ASSESSMENTS.
Two EnterprisIng Jewslry Hzwkers Com
fess TheGr ware. TO Ifavs Been
staIen-A Clam Thief Arrested

The justices courts we're kept busy res
terday d0sfng oct sentences Of various ce-
grees Of severity 70 a large number OF
gamblers and Migrants
Justice Rivers assessed the nine gamblers
arrested the night before, so each.
j. r. Melvin, the man who was arrested
last week in a Jackson sfFees saloon Tor
stealing purse containing SIS from Lyons
Coffin. was bound over 90 the grand jury
n 800 bonds By Justice Rivers. The prsA-
oner was removed 10 the county jail
Thirteen Migrants, saloon sittsrs and
ioaiers, we're SUM marty disposed OF By JUS
tee Miller, wh0 sent most OF them 70 the
city jail, for periods ranging from tan 10
twenty-five DAYS. Two were allowed tho
hours in which 70 leave the city.
Robert MeCarty, 8 resident OF the 'aava-
beds. was given twenty-five days IN the
city prison b. Justice Miller. McCarty's
mishapis due entirely 70 basket OF innG-
cent looking clans which he tried 70 ''lift"
from the counter OF an oyster cocktail
Joint on South Fourth street yesterday.
He was hungry, and clans being the only
yiands within reaching distance. served
him perforee. If Officer C0rbstt had not
happened along just al the right time aid
taken Robert In the clans would have uT-
donbtediy finished him up in more ef-
fecsuai manner than did the sentence inl-
posed.
Early Yesterday morning Officers Cor
bett and Harding arrested Peter WEIGH,
James Nolan and John Kidd, whom Cor
bett discovered IN hallway on Washing
ton strcet engaged in dividing some money
which they had stolen. Il was learned
later that the trio had robbed Robert JACK
son, in an alley. of about s4, which was all
the money he possessed. Justice Miller
bound the prisoners over 10 the grand jury
in bonds OF 500 each. They were re-
maBded 70 jail.
Two hard-lookiug characters were ar
rested By Deputy Sheriff David Brooks out
towards the race track yesterday afternoon
about 5 O'Clock. while engaged Ia selling
cheap jewelry at any price they could get
for Il to the inhabitants OF that locality
The men had a sAtchei nearly filed with
the track, and judging from the
amount Of money taken from them,
had had poor success IN dispos-
ing OF their wares. at the sherlfE's
Office the prisoners gave the names OF
Charles Wilson and Thomas Merritt, re-
speetiveiy. They explained that n man
had given them the jeweiry 10 sell and
agreed 70 divide the sales with them. They
said the jewelry had been stolen in San
Francisco. and freely admitted that they
knew il when the bargain was strnck, but
appeared to believe that there was nothing
wrong in selling stolen property. Sheriff
McGraw ordered Iiisssa below over Sanday
No one seems to have ever seen the prison
ers before. bat thsir faces bear the crook
stamp, and tlsey have evidently dropped in
on Seattle together with many Others OF
their ilk. who are browsing about for fresh
fields. There are one or two mere of the
same gang yet at large whom the officers
would like 10 lind.
United States Marshal Hamilton took
Charles Kopek and William Huston TO Me
Neil's island yesterday. The former was
charged with selling whisky TO fndians and
the latter wlth nnenine nal matter