Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-14
HELD Up BY THE LAW.

Saturday Sinners Sentenced by the Police
Magistrstes-They Pay Fancy Prices for
Their Seventh Day Jags-Mary Dolan
Retired for Three Months.
There were SO cases at the Central station
hearing yesterday morning, all ordinary
cases of minor Importance. Mary Dolan
got the only 90-day sentence, having been
acting unbecomingly in Denny's alley.
Several witnesses testified against her and
she might have gotten off lightly had she
not called them names for doing so. She
became very loud aud profaDe and Judge
Gripp gave her a three months sentence.
Alex Cochrane was sentenced to the work
house for being implicated in the larceny OF
keg of beer, but John Connors, arrested on
the same charge, was able to prove his in
nocence. Patrick Rowan got 30 days for
acting disorderly on Grant street. Charles
street: J. r. McBeth. for insulting people ON
Elm street, and Arthur Gildernew. for strik-
ing man on Federal street, all got the same
for Inc TWO poyS VINO 10 ta hae streets pse
on Saturday failed to appear and their oe-
posits OF $40 were forfeited.
There were IA cases before Mayor Wyman
at the hearing at the Allegheny police sta
ton. James FL. Slawson was fined 81 10 for
disorderly conduct at tho Baltimore oyster
house, Federal street. He raised a row be-
cause a l0-cent oyster soup he ordered con-
tanned but one oyster. Charles Jones, the
colored man who Quarreed with his sweet
heart Saturday night in the Southeast Park,
was fined $40 and costs. Mary Grant was
sent to the workhouse 30 days for hitting
her husband on the head with brick. She
lives on Chestnut street. Henry Brown was
fined $40 and costs for beating his wife at an
early hour yesterday morning. She was
lying in bed at the time suffering from
broken leg. Her home is on Chestnut
street.
at the Twelfth ward station. Hugh Kelly
was picked up by an officer on Seven teenth
street at o'clock Sunday morning. He said
he had no home. He was given 80 days in
the workhouse.
William Galway, who was trying to sell a
gold watch on Penn avenue Saturday night,
and who could not definitely account for
the ownership of it, was given 80 days 70
Claremont.
Frank McGunnigle, who got in brawl on
Second avenue Saturday night, and who en-
was sentenced to 80 days in the workhouse.
P. j. McTighe was arrested at Fourth
and Liberty streets Saturday night,
and charge of Of disopdsrs 1hs
docket He put up $50 forfeit for hearing
Monday. As he went out of the station he
spied the officer who arrested him. He i'm
mediately began to upbrnid him and call
him vile names. He was rearrested and put
up anothe: forfeit of $40 for hearing Mon
nay.
At the Seventeenth ward station only
three "drunks" were to be brought before
Magistrate Leslie Yesterday. They received
the usual sentences.
Yesterday mornings hearing at the
Twenty-eighth ward station was quitesa a
long one and kept Magistrate Succop busy
for about two hours. Edward Wilson was
arrested at the instigation of his mother,
who alleged that he does nothing but get
drunk and abuse her. The ungrateful son
was sent TO the workhouse for 80 days.
James Finnegan had an imaginary spite
against Sadie McFadden and called her all
the vile names he could think of, and for
which he was assessed So and costs.
Edward Burke was found fOoling about
poolroom at 8 O'Clock yesterday morning,
and, as he could give no good reason for his
actions. was sent to the worlhouse for 30
days. Henry Fally, William Walker, Lew
Storey, Albert Harris and Charles Tarr were
captured while indulging in a game of poker,
and were fined $40 and costs each.
Magistrate Hyndman, at the Nineteenth
ward police station, disposed OF five cases of
drunkenness at the Fourteenth ward sta
tion. Bennett Holland was fined IS and
costs on a charge of abusing his wife;
Michael Cain was fined q like amount for
fighting, and James O'Donnell and Benjamin
Rorstiens, charged with vagrancy, were sent
to the workhouse for 80 days each.