Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
SALTED FOR AWHILE.
Stiff Sentences Imposed IN Quarter
Sessions and Criminal Court. 3
QUEER CASES In BOTH BRANCHES.
Thomas o g'Brien's, Arrest Dueto Judge Ewing
and to No One Else.
YESTERDAY IN THE COUNTY COURTS

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Judges of Common Pleas, the announce
his candidacy for thejudgeship leaving them
| at liberty. After the step-children OF
society had gotten their respective
doses in Jail, workhouse and ,peni-
tentiary, as outlined below, minor squabbles
came up for disposition, but among the first
were couple worthy of particular mention.
An intensely black girl was arraigned for
having cut mans head almost off. Her
physical development was superb, and her
hair was as straight as that of Caucasian.
She said she was very sorry she had killed
the man and was probably relieved when told
that he would recover, but this did not
save her from salty workhouse sentence.
William Bell, of Washington county,
may or may not be considered model hus-
band. His wife had been convicted of
bigamy, and it transpired on trial that the
offense was really trigamy, as she is said to
have had three husbands since 1886, William
being the first. He, however,. had ex-
pressed desire that she should to his ample
bosom again fly, and was on hand to express
that desire.
No Wife Until After July l..
Judge Slagle, however, thought Mrs. Bell
deserved slight recognition of her exer-
tions, and sentenced her 80 days to Jail, and
William was informed that he must grin
and bear his disappointment until after
July f.
Frances Sylvester was until recently the
proud possessor of "a chickens which have
gone the way of all flesh, and, she thinks,
into the dinner pots of some of her neigh
bors. She also has garden, and deter
mined that as she had no chickens left to
devastate it, Dora Meninger's shouldn't do
it either. They had an alteration on the
subject in which Mrs. Sylvester said that
Mrs Meninger had threatened to burn the
house of the prosecutrix. Mrs. Meninger,
however, explained that she didn't
threaten anything of the kind, but
that she had said that if Mrs.
Sylvester wanted to, go to law she had a
house and lot to sacrifice, and she Mrs.
Meninger) hadn't this incumbrance, thereby
intimating what many hold to be the case,
that in contests of this kind the lawyers get
pay for their work, and the one who is re-
sponsible must foot the bill. AS Dora had
used the multidextrous term of elk, !" Mrs.
Sylvester construed it to mean the firing of
her house. Costs divided.
Fannie Jacobs had her husband, Philip,
arraigned on charge of desertion. The
parties are of Semetic strain, and it ap-
peared that Fannie was subject to fckle-
ness Of purpose that made Philips efforts
nugatory to keep peace with her. After a
prolonged hearing, the Court decided that
Mr.. Jacobs should pay So a week for
Fannie's support, and intimated that he
could get out of payment as soon as he Sc
cured divorce.
Must Support His Wife and Child.
Mary Falk, of Spring Garden avenue,
Allegheny, said her husband, August, had
failed to support her and the baby for some
time past. Henceforth August will put up
S. week for Mary or do the other thing.
A. Kemp preferred a charge of surety of
the peace against Monroe Blake, and assert
ing that the latter had assaulted him and /
threw stone at him in addition to making
dire threats. According to their respective
stories one would be inclined to think that
they each represented all the moral and
Christian virtues bound in black morocco
Mr.. Kemp said that while engaged in his
lawful occupation he heard "'spute,"
and went around somewhere to see what it
was about when Blake threw stone at
him which, in Gods providence flew wide
of the mark and saved the thrower from the
guilt of murder The defendant was as
sessed with the costs and required to give |
$500 security to keep the peace. The dis |
putants are rival nightsoilers.
Kate Hanlon was on hand, but William |
Hanlon wasn't, and his recognizance was
forfeited.
Lizzie Kortz had her husband, John, ar
rested on charge of non-support. They are |
McKeesporters, and she said they had been |
married three years and had one pledge of |
affection, which seems to have taken wings |
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which was quite demonstrative in court.
Her Husband Not the Better Man.
Mrs. Kortz said that her husband had |
tried to whip her, but admitted, on cross
examination, that she had gotten away with |
him in this issue, though it was left to in |
ference that if John hadn't been too drunk |
or too gallant the issue might have been |
otherwise. John must pay So week to |
Lizzie and give 5000 security for the per-
formance or take. the other horn of the |
dilemma
Carrie Powers, also of McKeesport, said |
she left her husband, James Powers, be-
cause he had habit of beating her. He |
admitted that he struck her once, but in
self-defense, when she and her mother and
another irate female attacked him stimuli |
taneously and he was forced to defend him
self Mr.. Powers said he was willing to
support Carrie whenever she came home |
and deported herself properly, but he said
that the communion and fellowship of a
father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law
and son-in-law, in connection with Carrie,
had been too much for his equanimity
Judge Slagle in order to give the ibers of
ruptufed affection time to feknit, said he
would continue the case, intimating that
the wife had spoiled her own case by her
testimony.
AT this point the family kaleidoscope, as
Attorney William M. McElroy calls it, was
put away for week.
Thomas O'Brien Gets His Dose.
Thomas O'Brien, who was arrested on a
bench warrant, was sentenced by Judge
Ewing. O'Brien was convicted over four
years ago before Judge Ewing of keeping
arrest after his conviction, but has been in |
the city for four years. He claimed that
his arrest was brought about by G. w.
Stevens, the saloon-keeper, and ''Lonny't
Long Judge Ewing sentenced him to pay
a fine OF 500 and to- undergo an imprison-
ment of 10 months in the work
house. Judge Ewing said to O'Brien,
as he was about to be taken to Jail, that the
Court alone was responsible for his arrest
He had not forgotten him, but did not
know that he was in the city until that fact |
cropped out in testimony during a recent
trial. No one but the officer who served
the process, Judge Slagle and himself knew
anything about it. Those whom the pris-
oner had charged with having caused his
arrest were entirely innocent. II
! The following sentences were imposed by
Judge Slagle: Jud Skyles, larceny, four
months to Jail; John O'Mara, larceny, two
years to the workhouse; John Burns, lar