The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-10
AT THE COURTS.
Gossip Picked Up Here and There at
the Court Rooms.

the Court Rooms.
Policeman Martin Scully. who is charged
by Mrs. Z. Barrett, living at No 6Oiz Rey-
nolds street. with assault with intent to
murder, was released yesterday on bail in
Justice Reynolds court. Officer Scully de-
mics the charge brought against him and be
will be given an examination next week.
He said that he has three witnesses VINO will
substantiate what he says. The woman
called to him, he said, co arrest
a boy peddler who had been in
her house peddling without License
and who had counterfeit money. The
officer said that he weat down the street
toward South Broad and Reynolds streets,
and found the boy standing on South Broad
and Houston streets crying. He asked him
for the IS counterfeit bill which he was
trying to pass. The boy said that if it was
counterfeit he did not know it. He said
that he knew where he got it and would see
if it was counterfeit He produced the
money and it Sas torn in two
pieces. The officer asked the
boy who tore the money and the
lad replied that the woman did, and he
wanted her arrested The policeman ex-
amined the BILL and he considered it per-
fectly good. He went with the boy back to
the womans house. Scully knocked on the
door. To a reply, "Come in" he opened
the door and went in and back into the
yard where the woman was. He told her
that he wanted her to 60 to the barracks to
prefer charges against the boy. She re-
fused to do SO, and, after trying to persuade
her, the officer told her that hs had
to arrest her. He told her that the
boy had preferred charges against her, and
that it was his duty to arrest her. He laid
his hand upon her shoulder, when she drew
back and defied him. Sculley said that he
told the woman that he wouldn't attempt
to drag her out, but that ne would put her
on the information docket When he was
going out he said the woman told him to
get out of her house. The pe1dler was
there and saw everything that transpired.
Another man named Louis Davis saw the
affair, and he said yesterday al the magis-
trate's court that what Sculley said was
true. Sculley will have two other witnesses
who will testify to the same thing.
Selig Eichholz, a subject of the Kaiser,
was admitted TO citizenship in the superior
court yesterday.
John A. Stevens was appointed COM
merclal notary public by Judge Falligant
yesterday.
The Patterson divorce case, which has
been grinding in the superior court for a
couple of years, is assigned for hearing.
Patterson is seeking final divorce,
In the mayors court yester lay morning
there were four arrangements, each prisoner
being convicted of the ofHense charged.
Joseph Barrett was fined $40 or 20 days
for striking Mrs. Herman Winter and her
servant girl.
Chloe Williams. Smithville negro,
was fined SIS or 80 days for painting that
neighborhood red at 2 O'Clock in the morn
ing.
Edward Williams. colored highfiyer,
was fined 50 or days for drunkenness on
the Streets and Oscar Kazar was charged IS
or-l0 days for terrorizing a lady while he
was three sheets in the wind.
John Meyer pleaded guilty in the city
court yesterday to keeping a gaming room
where the game called policy is played,
and Judge Harden fined the prisoner 800
and costs or six months imprisonment with
out labor, and two months additional with
out labor, but on tho promise that Meyer
would quit playing policy he suspended the
latter part Of the sentence.
Judge Harden fined Bernard d. Rosen-
brook $3.50 and costs, or six months without
labor, he having been convicted of selling
liquor to Harmon Ell1ins, a minor, who is
one of the Bethesda orphans. The sentence
would doubtless have been much more Sc
we're had it not been disclosed on the trial
that Rosenbrook's barkeeper had sold the
boy the liquor, and, as Rosenbrook attested.
in direct disobedience TO his employers
orders.