Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-04
EIGHT FINES IMPOSED.

Alderman Robe Disposes Of Another Batch
of McC:ure's Sunday Newspaper Dealer
Cases-One Newsboy Manages to Escape
the Dire Sentence.
twenty-five and COSTS" said Alderman
Robe eight different times yesterday, and
with each sentence one more dealer in Sum-
day newspapers was placed on the roll of
criminals as crime was understood in 1874
Agent Mcclure was his own attorney at the
hearings yesterday and in number of cases
was his own witness. He showed himself
to have been good customer of the Sunday
papers on February 2S, and if hard labor is
to be rewarded, it was the general opinion
of the spectators that in the one days work
he earned every cent of the s. 33H he was
or is to be paid by the L. and o. Attorney
J. d. Brown conducted the defense, and on
account of the number OF cases to be heard
did not raise as many objections as in
former hearings.
Notwithstanding the frequent boasts of
Agent Mcclure, an effort was made to con-
vict q young newsbOy for selling papers,
but as the detective named one paper in the
information and another in his testimony,
Alderman Robe discharged the case. Nc
Clure protested in his usual domineering
way, but the Alderman wasn't IN his usual
Law and Order humor, and refused to be
dictated to- =
The first case called was that of Jacob
Eass ESerey on %asns ss aecnsed OF
selling u paper himself, but it was claimed
his son did in the stand kept hy Larner. and
father is responsible for the sins of the son.
Alderman Rohe thought SO too and shut of
u controversy between Attorney Brown and
Agent Mcclure with that old familiar re-
"Twenty-fiye and costs.n =
Eastern Papers Also in It.
Frank Tarner, the son Of Jacob, was called
next. Agent Mcclure was sworn and testi-
fed that young Tarner was caught in the act
of calling ont "New York and Philadelphia
papers, He wasn't accused of SELL
ment that he had offered for sale
East was considered evidence of q fault so
grievous that he was given the usual SIS and
costs.
Mcclure also appeared against James M.
from whom the Law and Order agent testi-
fed he got Press. On cross examination Mr..
Mcclure stated that his eagle detective eye
ment in front OF the store as he entered.
Mr.. Sharp on Sunday, February ss," asked
az am" answered MI. Mcclure.
"Did you sell q Press to Mr.. Mcclure on
Sunday, February g." asked Mr.. Brown,
turning to Mr.. Sharp, who had been sworn.
II did not. didn's sell single paper last
Sunday" answ cred Mr.. Sharp, decisively
"Why, yes you did," interrupted Mcclure.
Robe Could Not See 1t That Way.
"Not a single paper" responded Sharp.
eat the time you claim you bought the
paper was eating my breakfast"
Mcclure did not offer any more testimony,
and Mr.. Brown insisted that it was simply
one oath against another, and in view of the
fact that the burden Of proof always rests
on the prosecution in q case of summary
conviction, he asked that tile case be dis
charged. The Alderman studied for q
moment, but he couldn't get his tongue
around discharged" SO he said Twenty
i've and COSTS"
d. S. Irwin, the Union News Company's
agent ut the Baltimore and Ohio depot, was
confronted by detective who was intro
duced rs Frank Clinton. As detective Mr..
Clinton is gilt edged. He was dressed as
neatly rs New York drummer and sporeed
diamonds that would make Alvin Joslyn
green with envy. When giving testimony
Mr.. Clinton had q peculiar habit of winking
at the Alderman. Mcclure took his subordi-
nate in hand with certain amount OF deli
cacy, and secured the information that
Clinton had purchased q paper 1t Irwin's
stand from newsy named Davy Conkling.
Mr.. Clinton wasn't sure IL was IrWin's stand, /
however, and superintendent Burke. Of the