The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-01-24
IN THE POLICE COURT
The Daily Grist of Crime Passed Upon by the
Justices

The Daily Grist of Crime Passed Upon by the
Justices
Justice Morrison is getting quite grist
of cases of all kinds this week, the largest
class of offenders being, as usual, Migrants.
Officers Sawyer and Fay had no less than
six females in the docket charged with So
Letting. OF this number four pleaded
guilty and were assessed in the following
sums: Susie Johnson, $50; Sadie Gilbert,
$40; Josephine Antonio, So, and Maude
Wilson, $40, all paying their fines with the
exception of the johnson woman, who got
floater. Jessie Robinson and Emma
Dittiner pleaded not guilty and will be
tried tomorrow.
Ed. Evans, the boy arrested by Officer
Shields for tearing down some posters near
Main and Ninth streets, was before Justice
Morrison yesterday charged with malicious
mischief. He pleaded not guilty and de-
manded jury trial, so the case was &C.
cordingly set for the 31st at 80 a. m.
On motion of Deputy District Attorney
James the charge of having obtained mon
ey under false pretenses against G. L.
Robinson was dismissed by Justice Nor
rison, but that against j. +. Bedwell for
a similar offense was tried. The details
of signing the checks by Robinson. and
Bedwell and others agreeing to provide the
necessary money to meet them when pre-
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After hearing some of the testimony for
the prosecution the case was continued un-
til the 31st.
The charge of disturbing the peace
against Mrs. White was changed yesterday
to battery, and her trial was set for the
9th at 9 80 a. m. 1t appears that col
ored child named Mcdonald, whose pa
rents live near Mrs. White on Eighteenth
street, tore several palings off of the lat
ter's fence, which act aroused considerable
Indignation on the part of Mrs. White,
with the result-so the parents of the col
ored child assert-that she grabbed a stick
and, assisted by others, administered a
severe beating to the miscreant, who still
shows the marks of the sanguinary en-
counter, though it occurred seven days
ago.
Frank Brown will not be apt to beat his
landlord, as he fancied he had the right to
do. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to a
charge of battery, and yesterday Justice
Morrison sentenced HIM to pay fine of
$40 or serve corresponding number of
days in the chaingang. AS Brown did not
have the necessary cash about his clothes,
he will probably accept the latter alter
native.
G. G. Boyden was held to answer to
charge of burglary yesterday by Justice
Morrison, in the sum OF 500.
Thomas Morris, the fellow who stole a
can of lard from tamale cart while the
owner slumbered the other night, was
found guilty of petty larceny yesterday by
Justice Morrison and sentenced to pay
fine or $50 or stay corresponding num-
Der of days in Jail. Morris claimed that
the owner of the tamale cart was indebted
to him to the extent of 81, and that when
he asked for the money the tamale man
said that he had on his old clothes and had
left all the cash at home, but if the i'm.
patient Morris could not wait he could take
the can of lard in lieu of the 81. The
owner of the cart denied the story of Nor
ris and the latter was not given the benefit
of the doubt.
E. L. Remmey, the duck man, will be
tried today on a charge of petty larceny.