Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-20
A DARK SUNDAY MORNING

For 1853 Offenders Who Misbehaved Them
selves in the Second Class Cities of the
State on Saturday Night-whisky Causes
Most of the Trouble.
The Sunday morning hearings in the two
cities were well.attended yesterday. The
Police Magistrates wasted but little time,
and imposed sentences with swiftness that
made the DAY seem, very gloomy to some of
the prisoners.
Two Score of Offenders.
There were 40 cases at Central ttation. WILL
lam Johnston got 80 days for choking and abus-
ing woman. John Morrell got 80 days for
fighting on Fifth avenue Traction car. Will
lam Green got 80 days for dIsordarly conduct,
and John Wilson got the samessentence for
begging money on Market street.. George Scott
was accused of stealing So from Frank May,
whose coat he was holding and his guilt was so
well established that he was given 3O-days
sentence. William Ryan and John LOTUS had
been arrested for fighting on Second avenue
and were each given their option of paying So
fine and costs or so days to the wOrkhouse.
LOTUS paid his fine. Mary Shaner and Mary
Gretis were arrested Saturday night in Laird S
shoe store, one of the women having concealed
under her shawl a pair of shoes she had stolen.
They were given $40 and SIS respectively.
Joseph Keeling was given S. and costs for in
sulting a couple of ladies on Seventh avenue,
and William Lawson got five days to jail for
the same otfense in Wylie avenue auction
shop.
Came Near Beating the Record.
Mayor Wyman's hearing consisted of AZ cases.
the largest number but one ever held in
Allegheny. OF the cases % were arrested for
disorderly conduct and 12 for drunkenness.
Seven of the prisoners were women. Superin-
tepdent of Police Muth conducted a raid on
the house of Emma Miller, No. s4 Cedar ave-
nue., about II o'clock and caught three men and
three women In the place drinking beer and
having festive time. The men were discharged,
two of the women fined S25 and costs and Miss
Miller held to await charge of Illegal liquor
boat about o'clock. at the foot of Cass avenue.
for making too much noise over a keg of beer.
All of the prisoners paid light fines for their
several offenses of drunkenness and street
fighting
southsiders Brought Up Short.
Magistrate Succop disposed Of 20 cases at the
Twenty-eighth ward and 8 at the Thirty-sixth
ward station. William Donger, suspicious
person. was sent to Jail for five days. Fred
Hemenan, for insulting little girls on the
street, was fined IS and costs. Casper Boteski,
for insulting women in the Lake Erie depot,
was held over for trial at court. John Mellet,
for further hearing. and the four visitors to
the house were fined SIS and costs each. John
He'll was sent 30 days to the workhouse for
beating his wife. John O'Brien, who assaulted
James Burns Saturday night with cobble-
stone at the Lake Erie depot, was fined $40 and
costs. John Malroy was held oyer for further
hearing for fighting.
Held For Stealing a Shirt.
Thirty-six cases were heard at the Twelfth
and Seventeenth ward stations. NJ. M. Kane
was held for court for beating his wife. Andy
Klavan. 10 years old. was held for court for the
larceny of shirt and four handkerchiefs from
Louis Glass store. Penn avenue. John Kross,
the boy who was caught prowling around in the
house of William Ahlbecker, Twenty-eighth
and Penn avenue, Saturday night, was dis
charged.
Hyndman Imposes Heavy Fines.
Magistrate Hyndman disposed of eight cases
at the Nineteenth ward and six cases at the
Fourteenth ward station Thomas Tunney and
Edward Milton were fined $50 and costs each for
keeping disorderly houses. John Lewis was
fined S25 and costs for assaulting Officer Reed
with cobbIestone Saturday night Patrick
Cunningham was released payment ofSl0
and costs for fighting with his trother-in-law
early yesterday morning.