Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-06
For Demonstrating Their Great Love
of Country in Entirely Too
Boisterous a Manner.
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE:LOCKED UP.
ViOlatOrS Of City Ordinances Get Sharp
Reprimand From Magistrate Gripp
at Central Station.
A MYSTERIOUS MIDNIGHT \ SHOOTING.
Newsy Stories From the Police Records Of Pittsburg
and Allegheny.

The unpleasant features of the sFourth
of July were manifest at the police station
hearings yesterday morning. In the two
cities 200 people started out too vigorously
to celebrate the day and were not allowed
TO finish it. In most cases they
had side-tracked their patriotism for the
pleasures of riotous living. Those who
followed this plan soon lost sight of the
glorious stars and stripes behind the bars
of station houses. Magistrates had their
hands full yesterday morning. Most of
the cases were common holiday drunks,
but they had to be questioned nevertheless.
Forty cases were heard by Magistrate
Gripp at Central station, of which ten were
persons arrested for violating the city ordi-
nance and Chief Browns order by shooting
with firearms. The magistrate reprimanded
all the law-brcaking celebrstors and dis
charged them, excepting o. Bergitz, who had
been arrested for firing off a big horse-pistol
on Smithfeld street. Bergitz.was given 80
davs to the workhouse.
Pretty Dear Shine After All.
Charles Matthews had been arrested on
Market street for fighting with bootblack
whom he had refused to pay for backing
his shoes. A crowd of several hundred had
gathered around the pair and the boot
blacks companions were becoming very
demonstrative in his favor when Officer
Steick came along and arrested Matthews,
who paid fine in preference to 3O-days
term at the works.
John Parker was charged by Officer Roach
!, T.,
near the yellow Row on Second avenue, tes-
titled: ''This man came home to me yes
1erdav and asked me for money. only
had little and L had worked hard for it,
but gave him 30 cents. He insisted on
more, but | refused and then he went at
me and beat me until l had to escape and
call the officer" The magistrate would not
allow Parker to explain, but gave him 30
DAYS in the workhouse.
Thomas Bamford, colored. and ED Nc
Afee each had half dozen witnesses to de-
fend them when their case was called.
Bamford had badly swollen face and his
testimony, corroborated by his wife and
other witnesses, was that while he was
standing talking to Ed Fairfax on the cor
ner of Seventh and Grant streets.
McAfee came along. He rubbed his
hand over the colored mans face,
calling him SNOWFALL darling" and
other tantalizing names. Bamford OBJ
iected to the familiarity and McAfee
struck him in the face, knocking him
down, and at the same time reaching back
as if to draw a revolver. Bamford jumped
up. and, running TO his house near by, pro-
cured an axe and started after McAfee,
who ran down the street into Officer Hanna's
arms Ramford submitted to arrest quietly,
but would have struck McAfee with the
axe had not the officer prevented it. The
magistrate imposed sentences of 80 DAYS
each upon the two men.
Some More Thirty-Day People.
Charles Scott and William Marks for
disorderly conduct received 30-day SEN
tenceS Jacob Freeman, colored, of 735
Wvlie avenue, had battered up his son-in-
law. Nimrod Freeman, until the young
mans wife could not recognize him, the
fight being the result of a family quarrel.
The magistrate imposed 3O-day sentence
upon the father-in-law and the balance of
The family were discharged.
Blanch Lewis got a 30-dav sentence.
Albert Lige had been arrested on Sixth
avenue for frightening people with big
knife he'carried open in his hand, he being
drunk. A 30-day sentence was imposed.
Thomas Brown was given 80 days for
throwing cobblestones at passers-by on Old
avenue. Frank Robinson got 30 davs for
fighting on Diamond street, and A Sarina
got the same sentence for disorderly conduct
on Wvlie avenue.
There were IL cases disposed Of by Magis-
trate McKenna at the Twelfth ward station.
Henry Graham was sent to the workhouse
so davs for abusing his wife. S. O. Day
was fined $50 and costs for throwing stones
in the house of Mrs. Mary Mccain, Thir-
teenth street.
AT the Seventeenth ward station four
cases were heard.
Magistrate Succop disposed of 81 cases at |
the Twenty-eighth ward station. They |
were all Fourth of July drunks and disor- |
derlies of the very common order.
Magistrate Hyndmand made 10 patriots |
happy. Thirteen came from the Nine |
teentn ward, 1 from the Fourteenth ward, |
and from the Twenty-third ward stations |
1t is rule of Judge Hyndman to overlook |
petty offenses and discharge the offenders
on the morning following a national holi-
day. None of the prisoners were accused |
Of serious misdemeanors, and he ordered !
them all set at liberty.
There were II cases at Mayor Wyman's /
hearing, ali OF them common cases, the only |
one not altogether so being that of Julius /
Heincig. who was fined SO for drawing a
knife or a car conductor.