Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-27
THANksGIyING oouRr.

The Usual Number of Cases Disposed
 of in the City COurt-Tomlinsons nss
 Novel Plea for Clemency-NIoran
 Pleads Guilty to Burglary and is
 Bound oyer to the superior Court.
 Thanksgiving day was kept in the city court yesterday in the usual fashion, the usual number of cases being found upon the docket, but when the court was finally over fewer unfortunates than usual were
 compelled to take ride in the wagon with
 the inspiring inscription thereon, Depart
 ment of Police," up Whalley avenue to the
 mammoth hotel on that thoroughfare,
 there to partake of Jailer O'Kesfe's hospi-
 tality and eat the corn beef ''turkey" which is prominent feature of Thanksgiving dinner at the jail.
 Judge Pickett was inclined to temper
 justice in his dealings with the array of prisoners brought before him yesterday morning and as & result several who might otherwise have been numbered among the guests at the jail were allowed to depart in peace to eat their Thanksgiving dinners elsewhere under suspension of judgment. Michael Coughlan was the first man to face the music. Michael was, according to his own statement, considerably exhila- rated Wednesday, but, although he has been before the court several times before in the course of his life on the same charge, Judge Pickett decided to give him something to be truly thankful for and allowed him to depart under suspension of judgment.
 John Manning, charged with being drunk, received similar treatment, and in conse- quence he departed happy. .' W. B. Tomlinson told the judge very pathetic tale to the effect that he was the victim of habit, the strength of which no one knows except those who are under it's curse. Tomlinson only came out of jail
 Wednesday morning, where he had been l serving out sentence for @ previous spree, but he told such pathetic story | about not having spent Thanksgiving at his home for eight years in consequence of his unsuitable appetite for strong drink, 1 and promised if the judge would be lenient l with him that he would go at once to his friends in Oxford and stay there and try l to make better man of himself. Judge Pickett said he was afraid he would be | tempted to take just one drink before he | started, but Tomlinson promised faithful | ly not to do so and the court suspended l judgment. Tomlinson at once left the | COuIb 1OOlu very Cudhhlul bdo happy | man, remarking as he went out: "I will
 never forget this of you, MT. Pickett, and | will try as I never have before to become | master of myself"
 The next one to appear at the bar was 8 | stout man with heavy side whiskers and a bad cut across his left temple. This was | Thomas R. Blight of Waterbury. We'd | nesday night Blight was very much intoxi l cated and fell from the front platform of | a Fair Haven and Westville car at State | and Chapel streets. He promised to pay | the doctors bill of $5 incurred for dress | ing his wound, after which he was allowed 1 to depart.
 | Thomas Barry, Daniel Mccarthy and | Mary Ann Rearden were next called upon | to answer charges of drunkenness and lascivious carriage at 153 State street, and although Mccarthy proclaimed that he was innocent of the charge, the court thought differently and fined Barry S7 and $2 AZ costs, Mccarthy $8 fine and $2. 42 costs, $1 l of the fine being for the drunk, and Mary Ann $7 and $242 costs. None of the tric l had any money and in consequence al | three went to jail.
 ] Erban Drinkle, who, in appearance, very
 much resembles Rip Van Wrinkle after his sleep of twenty years, then faced the court for the fifth time this year. Erbar was very loquaclous and pleaded hard te
 be let go but the court could not be moved
 this time and Drinkle went up to work ou l sentence of sixty days and $5. 5.42 costs. l George Moran pleaded guilty to tht
 charge of burglary in forcibly entering tn,
 house of Bernard Burns of 516 Orchard
 street on the night of October 31, and wal
 bound over to the July term of the su
 perior court under bonds of $700 No on,
 came forward to furnish the bond anc
 George went to jail. Moran has but jus
 finished serving a sentence of six months
 for a burglary committed in Hamden. Int
 case against him for breach of the peac
 against James T. Welch was nolled by thu l assistant city attorney.
 The case against Edward Hope, charged
 with violating the liquor law by selling liquor at the Fourth ward democratic pri
 mary, Monday evening, was continued un 1 til Daoann har. 2