Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
WHERE ALL LAW is DEAD.
Sunday Riotings in Lower St. Clair Town
ship Decidedly on the Increase-Excess
Unfettered ReIgns Supreme-Four Prize
Fights in Progress at One Time.


ship Decidedly on the Increase-Excess
Unfettered Reigns supreme-Four Prize
Fights in Progress at One Time.
Pittsburg may wear its cloak of Sunday
godliness and Allegheny be as calm as an
evening hymn, butjust beyond the limits all
restraint ceases. In Lower st. Clair town.
ship excesses unfettered hold full sway,
painted devil on bit of canvas.
While the Law and Order agent,
in his hope of clutchiag part of the fine,
tracks the newspaper carrier who is trying
to support family, every law written and
unwritten is broken just beyond the
city line. No place in tine county is more
wide open, and "Over the Rhine" at Cincin-
natl, Eagle Hill street and the lower end of
Broadway in Cleveland or Canal street in
Buffalo are but as June breezes to storm at
sea when compared with this place. Even a
mining camp is Sunday school picnic com.
pared with it. Yet it is beyond the city
limits, ana the municipal police are power
less to Stopit.
Yesterday three of the rioters from that
spot were gathered in by Officers Sheets and
Cochrane on Arlington avenue, which
divides the city from the township. Their
names were Samuel Hahn, Charles Flack
and Albert Flack. Down in this townsl.i ip
everything is free as if no law existed. Here
the gamblers run all kinds of games and in
dozen places the festive "tiger'' can be
fought over the faro bank board, roulette or
the wheel of fortune. Sports in the good old
style hold sway and despite the rain when
Officer Sheets looked down from his beat on
Arlington avenue to the township below
yesterday he saw four regular prize fights in
properly drawn rings in progress
Among the most notable of yesterdays
depredations was the conduct of n girl who
was not over 10 years old. The girl
with three or four male friends
had spent the day among the
cut there as flies about a molasses bowl in
summer. The girl had been induced by her
companions to drink until she was hone
lessly drunk and reeled about the streets.
After time the girls friends managed to
get carriage and took her home
In one row of eight houses six are speak.
easies. Another man has a big dance hall with
wine cellar underneath. Saturday night
there are always dances there and they keen
1t up until Sunday morning and then start
IN again sunday afternoon. The result is
drunken young girls and men are pouring
INTO the city at all hours from Saturday
night until Monday morning and the Twen-
ty-second Street Incline has almost become
nuisance. The incline officers, however,
cannot refuse to haul them.
Acting Inspector Kelley, of the Third dis
trfct, has increased the patrol on the hill
and has decided hereafter to arrest all per-
sons who come into the city intoxicated
he sald yesterday: 'lf they get drunk out
side the city, they must stay out until they
get sober or get locked up as soon as they
cross the line.''
Yesterday Officer Sheets noticed one man
in a drunken condition attempt to cross a
threw him down and he took a plunge into
the soft mud. He was covered with mud
and his companions hurried him off to q
house where he got change of clothing