Evening journal., 1896-09-05
IT WAS SIXTEEN TO ONE
TheSSixteen,Were in the Dock,
the One Was on the Bench.
A NIGHT IN MUNICIPAL COURT

A NlGHI In MUNlOlfAL OOUhI +
PATRICK KENNEDY WILL CEASE
TO BE A NUISANCE FOR AT
LEAST TWO MoNTHs-MAR-
SHALL CLAIMS THAT HE HAS
AN ALIBI.
Owing to the unavoidable absence
of Judge Ball from Wilmington yester-
day morning, there was no session OF
the Municipal Court. There was
general roundup last evening, and the
diamond balanced scales fairly sweated
under the strain put on them. The
soiree closely resembled silver con-
vention, there being 16 prisoners TO |
judge. The only political speeches
made, however, were guilty" or mot
guilty"
Abram Sinex was captured by Oni-
GERS Shields and Maloney while he was
busy iniating about twenty white and
colored men and boys into the mys-
teries of the sweat cloth, on the PEN
ny-ante plan. The implements of the
game, a dingy strip of oil cloth, bear
ing the dice numbers, and badly bat
ored dice were also captured.
SINEX PLEADED GUILTY.
Several of the men who were watch
ing the bones roll were called to tes-
tify as to Sinex being the operator of
the game, but they were not needed, as
he acknowledged his guilt, and asked
for leniency on the ground that il was
his first offense and would be his last.
He was held in $1,000 bail for upper
court.
( THEY STOLE A LOT OF BRASS.
! A colored boy named John Abrams,
aged IA years, was convicted in Mu-
nicipal Court Thursday and sent to
the Ferris Industrial School for the
larceny of a quantity of shoes from
Front street secondhand dealer, nam
I ed Nathan Hockstein.
Later on John Harman, aged 13
years, was arrested on charge Of
{ stealing brass from p, w. q b. pas
senger cars. He confessed to the po-
lice, and implicated John Abrams and
John Perry aged IL years, and the lat
ter was arrested. Two bags full of the
stolen brass were recovered. Not only
had the boys taken the brasses from
nozzles from the tubes of the pneu-
matte air brakes. Perry and Harman
were arraigned last night, but the case
was continued until this morning.
= SENT TO THE REFORM SCHOOL.
When arraigned this morning, two
lots of stolen brass and copper were
produced. One was taken fromThomas
c. Mum, the other from the p, w, q
b. Eugene Stirlith and John W
Poore, junk dealers, had bought the
stuff from Perry, and had never re-
ported It, Harman turned states evil
dence and convicted both Perry and
Abrams, both of whom confessed to
taking the stuff. They said, however,
that no questions we're asked by the
junk dealers, and Judge Ball gave
both Stirlith and Poore some straight
talk. The Harman boy was allowed to
go, his mother being cautioned to look
after him, or he would get in the Re-
form School. Perry is an escaped in
mate of the school, and both he and
Abrams was sent to that institution.
THIS BOY ESCAPED THE SCHOOL.
4 John McCrea, aged 10 years, whose
brother is now at the Ferris School,
was charged with malicious mischief
He was caught by Captain Kane, try
ing to open the weighing machine at
Sixth and Market streets. He was also
charged with trying doors of Market
street stores. On consultation with
the city solicitor, Judge Bali decided
, that a fine would be better than com
mitment to the school, and he was
fined So and COSTS which his mother
= paid. She was cautioned to keep vigi.
liant eye Oh her boy hereafter and keeI
him off the street at nights. This she
has been trying to do, and promised tC
/ be still more yigilant in the future.
3 HE VII KEEP THE PEACE.
, Charles Robinson, colored, went into
a coast saloon late Thursday evening
leading a genuine circus dog He tried
p to give the chemist the glad hand, bu
|, got an icicle instead. When he landed
/ outside the portals of the thirst cure
, he drew largely on his stock of spoiled
: English, and threatened to play Ad
: dicks with every coon in sight Offi
Ger Shields gave him the run, but h
returned and became so obstreperou
that he was sent in. He tried to ex
plain his position to Judge Ball las
night, but his story limped. In defaul
p OF So and costs he went to New Castl
c to take thirty days course in English
= as she is spoke.
IS Frank Rooney, who was charges
~ with disorderly conduct, was lucky, a
there was no prosecutor, and he wa
5, dismissed.
d John Daley, another of Office
Shields's victims, was drunk at From
and French streets, and it cost him 5
and costs.
i A NUISANCE TO EVERYONE.
10 Patrick Kennedy is a man with a.
3 ungoyernable temper and an insatiabl
Ie thirst He spends most Of the time h
is is not in Jail getting an assortment @
jags, and either beating his wife an
family or quarreling with his neigh
5. bors. Martin Dugan, one of his neigh
NJ bors, told Judge Ball that Patrick wa
4 a nuisance, and good for absolutel
X nothing. He was sent to Jail for sixt
days in default of $40 and costs.
,r Edward Mulvey, arrested by Office
II Schell at Fifth and Madison street.
gave Turnkey Little lively tussle be
fore he was landed in the cell. He in