The herald., 1896-04-28
POLICE COURTS KEPT BUSY
Fiesta Offenders on the Repentance
Seat Yesterday
sixty-sisht Cases Up for Hearing, u Wfteh
Forty.sevsn Were cleared Up--feis
ony Examinations

Even on ordinary days the police
courts usually have plenty to OCCUPY
their time, but yesterday was a sure
enough red-letter day for Justice Nor
rison. In all there were 6S cases on his
docket, of which Al were disposed of and
21 continued for trial. OF the Offenders,
26 appeared for drunkenness, "a for dis
turbing the peace. there were burg
larry examinations set, petty larcenists
convicted, 2 for carrying deadly weap-
ons and for assault with intent to kill
Besides these there were violators Of
city ordinances, battery cases, mis-
demeanors and various other species Of
crime.
The disturbers Of the peace were
mostly relic Of the Saturday night
maskers' frolic, and nearly all escaped
with light fines or were discharged. The
bladder wielders got off with q repr1-
mand, the time already spent in Jail
J. c. Virgins paid SIS for his fun and
Joseph Martin, Santa Ana Hoodlum,
who indecently handled ladies, re-
ceived ten days straight in jail. J. w.
Wiley paid $40 and considered himself
lucky in getting off at that.
Bert Lowell. hack driver, was dis
missed on an old battery charge, as was
Reuben Brown, a negro arrested for dig
turbing the peace some days ago. W.
H. GODDARD and William B. McGraw, the
peddlers who sold bladderA Saturday
night without the necessary license,
paid fine of 50 each and thought wo-
fully of their lost stock in trade. Limo
Castro was given $40 or ten days for car
rying gun. He went below. Joe Mem
doza will be tried on Wednesday for
misdemeanor in falling to properly care
for his two children. Meanwhile he n
out on his own recogniZance. Two va
grants, Frank Coleman and James Car
roll, were given twenty-day foaters.
The school boys who engaged In a
fight during the chiidren's parade Last
Friday were up for sentence and rot OF
with ten days each, commitment bainH
suspended. Robert Stroute, q county,
man who flourished q knief in a drunkaf
frenzy and threatened to disembowe1
any one who came near him Saturday
night at Main and Commercial streets.
was fined 500, which was paid. Il, J.
Mum will have trial for petty larceny
today. Mum was found with chicken
and some ladies' undergarments in his
possession which he could not account
for.
William Dampf was convicted Of tax
ing pair of shoes from in front Of q
store and will serve twenty days on the
chain gang or pay a fine of 800 "Jimmy''
Clark, the hypo f1end burglar, will be
examined this afternoon for robbina q
house. There is a clear case against him
and he stands good show of being re-
turned to the penitentiary for q long
term from which institution he has
been released but a short time.
The examination of John W. Pitroff
for shooting at Charles s. M. Peyton, the
man who flourished knife in a drunken
begun and Peyton's testimony taken,
Mrs. Pitroff was put upon the stand but
not allowed to testify against her hus-
band. Pitroff told his story, substan-
q or In tn
stated that Peyton began the shootina.
when he fired in self defense The mat
ter was not concluded and will be- taken
up again today.