Telegram-herald., 1890-03-05
POLICE AND COURT
They Both Enjoyed q Quiet Time
Yesterday.
The BIG YET MAKES 4 SMALL HAUL
The BABY Gets Its swaddiiRs Clothes aud
the waters Family saDsldes--son
Jagl Mast stzad the Racket
Minor Onsnses.

The case of the wife Of Chsuncey (.
Waters against her husband WAS down
for O'Clock yesterday; bat the pros
ecutor called il up ia the morning, had
4 little talk with His Honor, and they
both smiled amusedly, and the case
was nolle pros'd, and the prisoner was
let 90. All this was not exactly pro-
ceedings IN divorce, but it was tanta-
mount 10 a decree. The wife gets back
her trunk. the baby gets hack It's
swadllng clothes, the old gentleman
gets back his daughter.
A telegram from Goshen, Indiana,
wanted John W. Bruskey. When any
thing IS wanted of the Grand Rapids
police department, all you have to do
Is 10 call for it. Detective Kennedy
stepped outside a movement, picked up
his man, put hlm in cell SIX, and notl-
fed the Goshen people. Mr.. Bruskey
viii be reminded, when ne gets home,
that Indiana divorce laws may be a
little accommodating, but they don't
permit man 10 abrogate the whole eth
commandment of the decalOgue.
Charles Fitch IS better posted than he
was IN the moral obliquity OF careless
handling of guns. -Four members of
the Hepburn family swore that Fitch
frightened their wits out of them by his
assault with revolver. Fitch explained
that the Hepburn family threatened
his life, and he took the gun over TO
the Hepburn's 10 defend himself with
They had a bad scrimmage, and Fitch
was sent to jail because he couldn't pay
costs of S6.25 and find bail surety in the
sum of 500 for thirty days
A strenuous effort was made by At
torney Dapper, IN the Won Jugl case
yesterday morning, to make it appear
to the mind of His Honor that the COM
plaint charges his client with no offense
known 10 the law. 1t was failure,
however, and the heir of thousands
will have To face the music with all the
sharps and flats. Tomorrow morning
the court will take another turn at the
case.
In this column, yesterday, a sentence
appeared that might possibly lead to
the supposition that Joseph Ingram
had been full of illegal liquor. This is
not so. Mr.. Ingram was not full Of
illegal liquor, last Sunday; it was the
other fellow who had hired a rig from
Ingram's livery who was IN that condi-
ton.
A dozen or more of the familiar faces
had dropped into the courtroom by
half past ,, so as 10 secure seats for the
Waters family show. When told that
the combination had broken up, they
all moved slowly, despairinglv out,
wondering where our liberties were go
ing to.
1.-The final wind-up of old lady Nagen-
CASTS birthday party occurred in court
Yesterday morning. Van Hooven, the
young man who made it SO lively for
the old man at the party, plead guilty
TO drunk and dlsOrderly, and paid So
fine and 1886 costs.
The prosecutor in the long-standing
assault and battery case thought that
justice would be satisfied if Pennell
paid the costs already incurred. This
was done, the case was nolle pros q =.
and the prisoner was discharged.
Since the 18th day of February John
VI. Gurrin has beer postponed so much
that he was finally discharged. VIM.
Alger complained that Gurrin went at
him with hatchet. But the case was
nolle pros'd yesterday.
Officer Spencer arrested Henry Pang-
burn at $3.50 yesterday morning for
being drunk.