Evening journal., 1895-02-01
He INSULTED A WOMAN
He Got a Beating, Was Then
Arrested and Win Serve Time.
aEALTHoMPsoE RAE INTO AaEAe

The Judge Gave Him the Limit-Chariea
Gibbons Narrowly Escapes the Post.
A Breath Of Poland-A Colored man
who Assaulted His mistress-other
Gases In Municipal Court.
The need of an ordinance prescribing
severer penalty for the brutea who In.
suit defenseless women and terrorlze
housewives on the outlying streets ia
being demons tratsd every day, and com
plants OF Jack the Hugger, Jack the
Exposer. and others OF the Jack breed.
are fled with alarming frequency at
police headquarters The latest was that
OF John, aliAs Signal" Thompson, who
called at the residence Of Mrs Writ, No.
9O7 Poplar street, Wednesday, aud after
being refused some old clothes, grossly
lasulted her She pluckily grasped q
club and gave him beating, then had
him arrested La Municipal Court the
| fellow pleaded he was not aware of having
done anything or said anything, but he
was 30 fully identified that Judge Ball
gave him the limit, $40 and costs. or
sixty days. Under the proposed ordl.
nance. the penalty will be fixed at $50 or
SIX months. or Oobn
Officer Davidson found Annie Wart-
sell. young white woman, lying help
lessly drunk in the stable yard on Third,
between shipley and Orange streets,
aud arrested her She said she lived at
"Mrs. What-you call ems" house and
claimed that she was slightly bewildered
at the time. Judge Ball didn't recog
nize the house and she became still more
bewlldered when fined $3 and costs.
Charles Gibbons was arrested on
charge of larceny. He came out of jail
last week. Yesterday he wentinto MRS.
Mary Dawson's house, at No. 2l5 Tatnall
street, and was just taking q pair Of
pantaloons from the entry, when Kate
Dawson, aged IA years, saw and called to
him He skipped out, but was caught
by Officer Davidson. The charge of
larceny WAS withdrawn, and Que of
trespAss substituted, on which he was
dnsd So and costs or sixty days.
Joseph Dumbroski, Pole, living with
Peter Kalposki. WAS arraigned for being
drunk aud disorderly at bis boarding
house on Bird street. Peter Panwhiski
and Raw Oysterski, ard several other
skis, we're In court, the iirst named being
sworn through an interpreter, who had
hard work to keep him In bounds by fire.
. quently commanding "cheecka. The
cadl chsckRd him TO New Castle IN de-
] fault Of 80 and coats.
Preston Johnson. colored, WAS charged
with assaulting Eliza Price, also colored,
and bis mistress She claimed he hit her
with fiat iron He said she had cursed
| him, and ran against the fat He paid
I the rent, and proposed to be boss, and
, declared that II be ''stood on bis coffin,
4 he wouldn't live with woman and
4 strike her. In view OF the fact that
Eliza had been In court before, as pria-
!. oner, and he was Of good character
r Judge Ball Fixed the fine at $40 anC
3 costs. Johnson breathed hard and re
4 marked sotto voice; Good Gahd dats
rippah
James Mcdonnell, who was arrested
Wednesday for begging and held as
I suspicious character, WAS again arraigned
r Judge,Ball said that be had looked into tn
matter and had learned that Mcdonnell
. was Of fairly good character, and sdvise'
. him to 60 home and make good man o
/ himself. He thanked the judge for hi
Z mercy, and left with smile on his face
e The argument as to the jurisdiction Q
the court In cases OF cruelty to childre
has been further postponed TO dsy.to B
sat by oouusel