Evening journal., 1896-04-29
FOUR FOULS, TWO OUT.
"Limpty" Gibbons and Ed
Butcher Looking for Potpie.
BUT FOUND TROUBLE INPLAoE OF IT

John Lloyd's Ns= Wsy 10 golleot-Taken
From an Alley Bed to a CelI--other
Gases Weighed on the Municipal Court
Scales
A few days ago the veteran keeper Of
the judicial scales and high polisher Of
the gold plated weights and measures
Billy Heal, received q new brand of
statute oil, warranted to produce quick
and certain sction, aud this morning
used it on the balances Cor the CAST time
When Judge Ball had donned his robes
OF ermIne aud taken his seat on the
crimson woolseck. the gift OF Councilman
Harry Smith, chairman Of the Police
Committee. he drew the hair balanced
scales, which have become famous in
five continents, towards him and smiled
as be laid his hand on the beam. They
never worked with so much ease, and
although there WAS an even dozen Of
victims, the weighing was ell over In less
than three quarters Of an hour. Some
irreverent member of the curiosity club
gave as = reagon for this celebrity with
which business was done that no lawyers
were present, but the reporters united in
giving credit to the scales, the new oil
and Billy Heal
LimPty Wanted a Chicken.
Edward alias "Llmpty" Gibbons and
Edward Butcher, both Of them special
patrons Of the police, and whose very
pressDce in neighborhood cause locks
and keys to advance 10 price, paid a visit
TO the p, W. &B depot last night.
Officer Riley noticed them as they
strolled over TO the waiting room of the
great iron horses and kept his eyes open
for alarms The pair had not been there
more tnsn FIVE minutes until a chicken
squRwked. Charles H. Norris, agent Of
the Adams Express Company, rememb-
cred that be had & crate OF fowls stand
! ing outside the Office and SELLING his
revolver he started on a hunt 10 saw q
man stopping over the crate and hiding
something under his coat BE gave chase
and saw sthe msn drop the fowl IS he
passed through the shed.
Officer Riley chased the man up Poplar
street, but Officer Purcell who had run
around Walnut street to Second, csnght
"Limpty" at Poplar street. Gibbons
told him, with au oath that II he'd gone
another way he would not have bsen
caught, ana when asked what he took
the chickens for said: pot pie Riley
caught Butcher later, at Third and
French after 8 run
Both men plesded not guilty and
Gibbons accused Purcell Of not adhering
strictly to the truth In teslifying.
Judge Ball held both men for the upper
court under $500 bail each. Four
chickens valued at 81 90 were stolen but
recovered
John Lloyd Wants a Spot.
About the time the shops were letting
out last evening John Lloyd, a young
man who has been working hard to de
stroy what little reputation he had,
stationed himself at the corner Of Second
and Shpley streets and proceeded to
hold up the passers by. He hsd pro.
vided himself with about two feet Of
coast whiskey and II was very much In
evidence. When q man declined to give
him anything John cursed him Officer
Welch transported him to the police
station. aud this morning Judge Ball
gave him the chance TO pay So and costs
or 60 over. John wants Ave spot very
bad to colnplste hia hand.
Christopher Murine, a scissors grinder
got out Of Jail about six weeks ago.
Work has not been very brlsk since them
and he has remained comparatively sobsr.
/ de struck q coast boarding house yester
last night Detectives MeVey aud Witsil
ran across him at Second and Market
streets They offered to let him 90 IL he
would or could reach a side street, but
he could not so they sent him 10. his
long term of abstinence entitled him to
a prize in the shape OF 81 aud costs.
MagEie's Bed In an Alley.
Maggie Getting, a rather good looking
nymph du pave, and one Of the bslles Of
the coast, was on q Stunning expedition
last evening. She met several angela and
as e consequences went TO sleep in an
alley on TatnAll street. When Officer
Ward found hsr she WAS very drunk
This morning she was arrAignsd. From
the way sho held her head 10 her hands
her hair evidently pulled hard, and when
the officer told bis story she sullenly
remarked she had nothing TO say. The
scales dipped to So and cosUs and she
will breathe the Delaware air at the
| Chateau de ellis for the next month.
Martin Mcdonnell was drunk at Fourth
and Union aud Thomas Mulrooney
at Front and Union streets They each
| got 81 and costs
Thorp Martin, John Middleton aud
| Charles Swestman, boys, wsre charged
by Officer Taylor with dlsorderly conduct
| The hearing was postponed until to-
| night, as was the case OF George Schultz,
charged with assault on Thomas Hess.
The wife Ohjeoted TO Abuse.
| Charles Dumpson. colored, was charged
| by his wife Ida. with disorderly conduct.
She said that he would not work, and
| would drink. She did not objset to his
not working. as she bad been supporting
him and their children, but she was
opposed to being abused and said she
feared bodily injury. She said that she
/ left him In charge of the children when
she went to work yesterday, and when
she came home shs found him drunk and
the little ones neglected. When she
demonstrated be cursed her and threat
ened TO harm her, aud she had Officer J.
II Msssey arrest him
Some Of her Witnesses wers not on
hand and the case was continued until
to night, bail being fxed for him a,
500
This completed the work Of the court
and Court Tenor Heal sang bis voluntary
and then carefully replaced the scales IN
their old gold plush coverings, remark
ing to the EVENING JOURNAL reporter al