The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-28
THE POLICE COURT BUDGET.
Recorder Wilson Has an Interesting
Lot to Deal With.

LOT 10 OGEtl
The first name on the police court
docket yesterday was that of Henry Har-
mon, who has been locked up awaiting
trial on account of the lack of witnesses.
The case was continued to this morning.
Joe Smith was charged with cursing
and abusing T. A. Howard. Joe looked
very penitent and Mr.. Howard asked that
he be discharged, which was done.
East Freeman was called in charged
with drunkenness and lying on the canal
bridge.
Guilty or not guilty9" asked the re-
corder.
"Well, boss" said East, 81 know that I
was a little 'toxicated,' but weider l got
on de bridge or not am unable to swear. -
East was truthful if nothing else. He
got 50 or six days
John Dale was up charged with disor-
derby conduct and lying in the street. He
pleaded guilty and was fined the usual So
Three employees of the City and Suburban
road were called in. There were various
charges against them, such as drunken
ness, disorderly conduct, disturbing the
peace, resisting arrest, etc. They showed
up in a very diSheveled state and were
adorned with various cuts and bruises.
and presented altogether a thor
oughly "bum" appearance From
what could be gathered from
the evidence, it seems they decided
TO have a little fun. After getting three
or four drinks of whisky in they were
seized with the desire 10 put yermillion
tnge on everything, and this they pro-
ceeded to do in not altogether an original
manner. First one of the party got
maudlin drunk and the other two got
drunk enough to enjoy taking care Of him
They caroused around, as is
the wont of parties in their condition
About o'clock yesterday morning The
barrooms closed. This usually has a
dampening effect on this kind of parties.
1t had no such effect on this one. AS no
one would open the door for them they
proceeded to open them for themselves
by kicking them down. The barkeeper
having the not altogether original idea
that it would not be wise for him to at
tempt to stop this annoyance himself, tel
ephoned the police barracks for assist
ance. Three policemen responded to the
call, and after some scuffling. pulling and
pushing. he metamorphosed three young
sports into three detected prisoners. Yes
terday Recorder Wilson deepened the
gloom which had overspread their cOun-
Genances by filming them So each or ten
days in jail.
G. NJ. Smith was called in, charged
with vagrancy and lying in the street.
Clullu1 III looks anu uduueT, Is the lQedl
tramp. He tried to impress on the re-
cOrder's mind that he was not asleep on
the sidewalk when the policeman ar
rested him, but was lying down so as to
speak with ease through the crack under
a door to a friend on the inside whom he
was asking for a Job. AS this was not
Smiths first appearance before the
public. the story would not take and he
was turned over to the city court.
Ben Conelly, who was up Monday
charged with assault on =. NJ. Brooks,
and whose case was continued to yester-
day, was called in. Ben had lot of wit
nesses with him. In the evidence of Ar
thur Williams it leaked out that the fieht
occurred Sunday, and started over bot
tie OF whisky which had been bought that
morning. This made things interesting
Further investigation showed that there
was a woman who did regular Sunday
liquor business through the medium of a
boy named Phillip, who brought the
whisky out Of her shop as it was ordered.
Ben was discharged, but developments in
the liquor case are looked for.