The herald., 1896-10-14
POLICE COURTS KEPT BUSY
Fred Cooper, the Ascending Salesman,
Is Arraigued
Hugo Won Guffenbergen Pleads to Two
Petty Larceny Complaints-Minor
Offenders Tried and Sentenced

! In the police court before Justice Ow-
ems yesterday Fred Cooper. the alb
sconding travelling salesman of Craig,
Stuart & Co., was arraigned on charge
| of felony embezzlement and had ex-
| animation set for the 18th at 2:30 p. m.
He appeared without counsel and was
committed to the county Jail to await
his hearing, in default of $4,000 bonds.
Hugo Brandt. or, as he prefers to be
known, Hugo Won Guffenbergen, came
| into court to plead to charge of steal
| ing a bicycle from Hawley, King & Co.
on September 29th last. Hugo said he
had engaged Messrs Davis q Rush to
appear for him, but neither attorney
! showed UP. The prisoner was ar
raigned, pleaded not guilty and had tri-
al set for Friday, the 18th inst. at $3.50
| a. m. No sooner had the case thus been
disposed of than Guffenbergen was
again arraigned on another complaint
Of having stolen wheel on September
26th from L. Appel. liquor dealer on
Fifth street. To this charge he entered
the same plea and trial was set for 10
o'clock on the same morning, the 18th.
L. D. Bricker was to have been exam
ined before Justice Morrison on a
charge of assaulting H. Reddinger with
On motion, the matter was continued
until the 10Th at p. m.
Four saloon keepers and cigar stand
proprietors-A. Goldbaum, Fred Bar
man, C. E. Miner and E. l.. Maxwell
were arraigned on misdemeanor
charges of maintaining in their estab-
lishments nickel-in-the-slot card gam
bling machines Trial of all the cases
was set for October 22d, at the same
time that the test case Of Bob" Kern
comes up.
On a charge of battery preferred by
po, NJ ,lc x,,ifa
Louisa went in court to plead. They
pronounced themselves not guilty and
trial was set for today at 2 p. m. All the
interested parties are German and speak
but little English.
Lizzie Huston and Lizzie Turner,
street walking cyprians, were convict
ed Of soliciting. The Huston woman
was let off with thirty-day fioater. the
other paid $40 fine.
Lem Coon and Ching Hing pleaded
guilty to selling lottery tickets and paid
$40 each.
Five box car sleepers, arrested early
yesterday morning on the East Side,
were given fioaters of thirty days each
to get out of town, and when released
made tracks for the city limits in
hurry. Shelton Russell, a negro charged
with disturbing the peace of neigh
The case of Belle Williams, the noto-
rious negro prostitute who nearly Ibid
up" Officer Matuskiewiz on Main street
few nights ago, was set for trial on the
22d.
Jose Savas, accused of disturbing. the
peace, will be heard today. Fred M
Hazlett on sinilar charge will have
trial on the 21st.
An old offender named Tom Riordan
just released from a sixty day term in
jail, and brought back a few hours later
in beastly state of intoxication, was
"a tr, hi n
chaingang for fifty days more.
Four plain and fancy drunks got nom
inal fines.
A. Lennon, arrested for passing
handbills on the streets in violation of
the ordinance, was tried, and at the
conclusion of testimony the matter was
taken under advisement, decision being
reserved.