The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-19
TIE MILLS OF JUSTICE.
They Grind Out a Lot of
Sentences to Sunday
Offenders,

The usuallarge Monday morning batch
of prisoners was .arraiGnsd before Pollce
Justice O'Donnell this morning. AlloI
Saturday night and sunday the police Oh
the First and Secoud precinct had been
kept busy picking up law breakers.
Charles II. Haroey, a Pullman porter
on the Pennsylvania Railroad. was the
first prisoner ~arraigned. Detective Nor
ris was the complainant and the prisoner
was charged with the larceny of several
dishes and other articles from the car OF
another porter.
.Well, what have you to say to the
charge, Haroey?" asked the Judge. "Did
you take these things"
Eyes, sir. l did"
"Why did you take themP
"We!l, Judge. this other man oWed me
81. so from the last time that we shot
craps l had to get it somehow. and l
got it. What l took was not worth over
You are held to await the action OF
the Grand Jury 10 default OF S200 DALI"
said the Court.
-Four youths ranging in years from
| ulILC ~ IA
into the prisoners pen. They were
picked up at the Erie Depot by PATROL
man Bunnell at six O'CLOCK yesterday
morning. They told the Judge that they
ran away from Paterson Intending to
look for work in New York.
"How did you get to Jersey City? Did
you pay your fare DOWN." asked the
mo. judge" spoke up oDe OF the
auartette. 1--WE came down on q coal
train"
The boys were held and their parents
will be Notified
Anna LOCKWOOD called Court Officer
Pearson. A small determined looking
woman stepped from the body of the
court room into the prisoners dock.
"Mary Smith," agaiu called the court
officer.
ing than the first. stepped up and took
the witness chair.
NOW, tell your story" said the Court,
addressing the Smith woman.
"Well, judge" she said, Il live at No.
Ill Erie street. This woman lives nex5
door. She is always putting her BOY up
to fight my boy. On Saturday she told
her boy to do up the Yankee snot. mean
ing my boy. / went downstairs, aud both
her ard her boy struck me"
"Ann you did not attempt to strike her
at all?n asked the Court.
"No. sir"
swell, Anna, what have you to saw"
lit is all false, judge snid Anna.
"Thts woman is a nuisance to the neigh
borhood. She struck me several times.
She and her boy are always creating
trouble. That woman is no good"
At this juncture Mrs. Smiths little
boy, a neatly dressed youth. came for
ward crying, aud sald:-
ION, Mamma. come nome out of here.
Don't let the people laugh At you.'
The Judge then questioned both boys,
and found that they We're equally 10
blame. aud he ordered both women u OF
The court room.
Sarah Pattison," called the court
officer.
sarah stepped into the dock. She Is a
character. About six feet in height,
sturdy and seventy years old. Sarah has
an awful appetite for liquor. The trial
of the case created considerable amuse.
ment In the court room. The arrest was
made by Patrolman Keilt. and the COM
plaint was Patrick Campbell. Patrick Is
as old ii not older than the woman. and
1t a. evident that he was loath to press
the charge. He lives at No. 246 Wayne
street.
This is my brothers child"
said he, never casting u glance at tue
prisoner. "She has been keeping house
for me for several years. She drinks SO
hard that / can't stand n er any longer.
well, Sarah, what nave you to Say?"
asked the Court.
ooh, sure, Judge,u said Sarah, with a
smile which seemed to make every body
In the court room smile, II only lake an
occasional glass of ale."
you get drunk often, though" said
the Judge.
"Oh, it doesn't take much TO set me of
now, Judge.'' she said. Il haven't the
capacity / had when / was young. Then
l could drink. Now one glass Of good ale
will set me off.
"Oh. Judge, she's a holy terror when
she's drunk" said the old man despair
ingly.
Sarah. do yon think you could keep
the pledge for a year?n asked The
Judge.
"On. give 1t to her Tor life. Judge"
said The old man.
Everybody IN the court room was smil-
ing by this time, and several laughed
outright.
Now, Campbell said the court. ''you
don't want TO send this woman Co jail, do
your
mo, lido not Judge, hut I want her to
stop drinking,n Sarah was smiling all the
time.
well I'll make Sarah take the pledge,
Patrick, ind II she breaks II you irt me
know, and / will se8d her to jail and
the couple left the court room together.
John Baker was noxt ArrlRaed. A