St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-25
WIT OF LAWYER AND COURT
Clark's Alleged Footpads Say
They Had Only a Street
Fight.
J0CCO GETS NINETY DAYS.
Smoked a Bad Cigar Before
Judge Orr, and Paid SIS
for 1t.

~'s ohS 49,
rested at the fremont house. corner
Robert and Eighth streets, Saturday
afternoon, for carOusing in a d%isOrderly
manner. role from the central station
to the municipal court yesterday morn-
ing in a patrol wagon. BY the time
the wagon drove into the alley between
the o Il t house and the Jail thousands
OF people had gathered to look at the
load. The girls and man were quickly
escorted into the court room, which was
packed. The door was then guarded.
and not opened to admit anybody who
had no business there. The cases were
all heard, and the following disposition
was made of them: Four girls were
sent to the workhouse for twenty days,
three were discharged, w paid fines of
SIS, and one forfeited her bail for nom
appearance.
John Ives defended some of the girls
who were charged with ~hugging or
being Rugged inst before the arrest was
made.
Your honor" said Mr.. Ives, "shis is
the first time | ever heard that hugging
was described as disorderiy conduct. If
both parties are willing. it tends to pro-
mote the peace"
1.-The act to which the learned counsel
REFERS" remarked Judge Orr. ''should
never be performed in public"
Denies the FoOtpad Act.
James Flannigan. James CJnnors a nd
Jonn Depue, the three men arrested by
the police for assaulting AL Clark, the
colored barber, near the Ire mont
house Friday night, tell a different
story from Clark's. The latter declares
that the trio tried to hold him NJ, and
that in the scu file one of them shot him
i'll the face. But Flanagan gives the
following explanation:
"Depew. Connors and myself were
coming down Robert street toward
Eighth. when, before we noticed any
body, for it was blowing and raining, a
man holding an open umbrella pointed
straight ahead ran into us. We roasted
him. and in a second there was a fight.
The colored Teller jumped onto Dtpew
and l tried to separate them. He
landed a heavy GLOW Oh my ear and
then | drew my revolver and struck the
o o Oh the head. AS l did so, 1t acct.
dentally Went off. This ended the fight
and we hurried off. l dropped my re-
volver. There vas no holding up at all.
Nobody, it seems to me, would be foolish
enough tn hold up a man under a
lighted gas lamp"
The police found Flannigan's revolver
near the scene. 1t is a 3S-caliber
weapon, made TO initiate a Smith &
WeSson. Clark's wound was not seri.
Gus.
Ninety Days for Jocco.
Jocco Conway, whose face is not new
to the police court. appeared there yes
terday morning to explain why he
stopped a mar on the street the other
night and peremptorlly requested some
money from him. Mr.. Conway's expIa-
nation being very cloudy, Judge Orr
said to him:
Don't you know there is a suspended
sentence over your head?"
MOT so, your honor" responded
Jocco, cheerily. dat sentence expired
couple a mont's ago."
"Oh, no, JoccO. you are mistaken.
These suspended sentences never ex-
pire. One is hanging over you now,
and l will let it drop now" replied
the court.
So J0cco will serve out the ninety
days which he thought had gone by.
Fined for Contempt.
1t cost one e. Hearn just S. to puff a
bad cigar in Judge Orr's court room
yesterday morning. Mr.. Hearn appeared
in court to answer to another charge,
and had previously deposited $40 as
guaranty that he would be on hand at 9
a. NJ. When the case in which he was
most interested was called. Mr.. Hearn
stepped up to Judge Orr's desk with his
torch in his mouth, burning like a loco
motive headlight.
what do you mean. sir. by smoking
in court?" inquired his honor.
"Nuthin', yer honor" answered MIR.
Hearn, lowering :his cigar and wiggling
his left little finger vigorously, but in
vain, against the lighted end.
"Well, you will find that as expensive
a cigar as you ever smoked in your life"
observed Judge Orr. st will cost YOU
S."
The original charge against Mr..
Hearn, which usually results in a $40
fine, was dismissed, but Mr.. Hearn did
not get any of his S10deposit back. Half
of it went to pay for that cigar. and the
other half was providently% gathered in
by MIR. Hearn's lawyer, who defended
him in the other case. Judge Orr ad-
minlStered a few cauStic instructions to
MIR. Hearn about smoking in court.
which, together with The S. fine. will
probably vastly improve that gentle
mans court etiquette.
Large Crop of Aherns.
Officer John Ahern "while patrolling
his beat" Sunday night saw John Ahern
with a bolt of bingham cloth which he
had just distracted from an East Sew
enth street store. Ahern arrested
Ahern, and yesterday morning the two
Aherns faced Clerk Ahern. When the
court asked Prisoner Ahern what he
had to say, he responded Guilty, your
honor"
Ninety days." remarked the court.
Clerk Ahern smiled, and PatrOlman
Ahern grinned as Prisoner Ahern was
escorted back 10 the cell room. whats
in a name?"
CASHIERS Trial Thursday.
The cast against Harry Cashier, who
is charged with negotiating forged
checks, was continued yesterday until
Thursday forenoon.
Hitch your chariot to a star" was
Emerson's advice. The star of all the
baking powders is Dr.. Prices.