The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-05-18
RECORDS OF POLICE DOINGS.
Prisoners Make Themselves a Public
Nuisance and Cause Protests.
CITIZENS APPEAL TO THE BURGESS
For the Sake of Peace and Sabbath observ-
ance He Allows Thirteen Prisoners TO
Go Their way-They Had Served
Eighteen Hours

Chief Burgess Burns and the police were
in plight Saturday night and yesterday.
Men rambled about the streets who should
have been locked up, but there was no place
in which to confne them, so no arrests were
made except in cases of absolute necessity.
When the dawn of yesterday arrived there
were 20 prisoners in the Council chamber and
that was as many as the police felt like
crowding into the place. The new steel cells
in the lookup will be completed this week
and this trouble will not be duplicated.
Among the prisoners were 13 of the 16 men
arrested at the Polish wedding ON Friday
night. Friends of several of these men had
offered to pay their fines, but they refused to
allow that to be done, preferring to remain
in confinement pending legal process for
their release by w. J. Whtehouse Esq. Tie
men had evidently preferred putting their
money into lawyers fees instead of fines and
costs But the legal process did not mater
ialize. Yesterday the prisoners behaved in
such manner that the residents of the
neighborhood complained. The prisoners
made liberal use of the windows in the Coun-
Gil chamber and church-going people were
more or less offended. Finally a written
notice signed by Daniel Ellis, Jr, Moses
Rogers, w. j. Brown, w. j. Jacobs George
Rowse James W. Morgan, Lawrence Little,
r. X. Edwards and Lewis Powell was sent to
Chief Burgess Burns that the nuisance would
have to be abated. Burns was in Il quandary.
The nuisance was really created by the we'd
ding prisoners. At $3.50 last night he released
them, after they had served is hours, and
there was no more trouble.
Drunks were very numerous in town yes
terday and it is quite evident that the effects
Of lectures at the last term of license court
have worn off.
As one result of pay day frolic Anthony
JendrezezfIi almost forfeited his life lie
boards in a house ON South Pear alley and
became involved in quarrel with Mike
Urban and John Machowski. A beer glass
figured in the atiray and the victim suffered
severe decorations on the left side Of the
head. He lost great amount of blood and
almost fell to the floor from weakness when
making complaint before Justice Rynkawicz.
Two doctors dressed his injuries and they
say that had they been two minutes later the
man would have been dead. Urban gave
bail for trial Machowsli went to Jail.
Joe Wydosky stood at the corner of Main
and Coal streets Saturday night, tourishug
a revolver and backia and was taken in
charge by Winfield Major and several other
citizens. Wydosky gave $500 bail for trial.
Charles Gipkus stole gold watch from
Constantine kantanwicz while inviting him
to go to a saloon to take Il drink He denied
the charge when first arrested by Constable
GiblOn, but surrendered the watch this
morning when about to be taken to Pottsville.
Justice Bailey put Joe Kaputska under $500
bail for stealing a gold watch from William
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