Evening star., 1912-09-02
MANY PRISONERS UP
IN POLICE COURT TODAY
Both Branches Busy With
Usual Holiday Crowd of
Offenders.

Labor day was marked in the Police
Court by a large parade Of prisoners in
both branches. Both Judge Mullowny
and Judge Aukam opened court an hour
earlier than usual in anticipation of the
heavy court due to Saturday, Sunday and
a holiday coming in succession. The
collateral list in the District branch of
the court, where Judge Mullowny was
sitting. numbered eighty-three persons
Upstairs in the United States branch of
| the court, the names of fourteen who
had put up collateral for their appear
ance in court were called, but only one
OF them appeared before Judge Aukam
| to be tried.
| In Judge Mullowny's court several of
| the "old timers were up for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, and drew fines
varying from 50 to $40. Most of them
were unable to pay. and will board the
Special for Occoquan this afternoon.
| Two men were charged with habitual
drunkenness. One was put on probation,
| and the other was sent down for a good
stretch to straighten UP. One man for
feited $50 for carrying concealed weap-
| ons, four were fined for breaking the
speed law and seventeen for various vio-
lations Of the police regulations. One case
OF an alleged unlicensed bar was continued
until tomorrow, one vagTant went down
| for sixty day and three other offenders
were fined for various infractiOns Of the
law.
The prize charge was that against George
Murat He was charged with permitting
his motor cycle to emit prolonged, in
tense, nOxious. undue and unnecessary
smoke on the public highway" When the
clerk read the charge it sounded almost
as bad as murder, but Judge Mullowny
determined the penalty to be fine Of 81.
There were only three cases out of the
| ordinary in the upstairs court. Octavius
Coates was charged with embezzling some
money from the Merchants Transfer and
Storage Company, and Raymond Murphy
was charged with breaking into the house
of Maggie Coster and stealing some Of
her property. Both cases were continued
until September because some of the
witnesses were not present. Rose Curry.
a negro woman. was held In 5000 BOND
for the action of the grand jury on a
charge Of breaking into store owned by
Hyman Berliner. at 2&S NJ street north
west, and removing a ham, valued at
81 80 aod bottle of cream valued at 20
cents She had no defense except that
she was hungry.
Besides the thirteen who forfeited bail in
the United States branch Of the court, six
men and one woman appeared to answer
charges Of assault. The highest hne
drawn was $780, in default of which Will
liam H. Carter will have to go down the
river 1OT ninety udyS. Ohc VI INC SASoo
was continued until tomorrow, one man
was released on his personal bond, and the
rest were fined SO each. There were sew
eral petit larceny cases, two Of which
were dismissed because of lack Of prose-
cution.
In spite of the heavy business. the
United States branch disposed of all the
cases before IL o'clock, and the District
of Columbia branch was adjourned about
Ills o'clock. Had a larger number OF
fhoSe who were ont on collateral appeared
to answer the charges against them. it is
probable that the District Of Columbia
branch would have been in session until
well after noon.