Police Court— Shepheard, J.
Tuesday, August 16th.
The docket this morning was
made up as follows:
misdemeanors, 24; assault and battery, 8;
drunk, 7; threats one, 1; assault, 1;
assault with a deadly weapon, 1 ;
using treasonable language, 1; petty larceny, 1;
continued cases, 21.
SENTENCES.
Dennis Meagher, for a misdemeanor, came in for a fine of $ —
Daniel Callahan, a fast horseman, forfeited his bail, $30.
D. J. Ford, do do., $30.
Haidee Leonard was sent to the County Jail for twenty days.
FREE FIGHTISTS.
John Masterline was convicted of fighting the whole city and
county of San Francisco, or as much of it as dared to face
him, and was held for sentence. He concluded on the whole,
that he might as well die on the spot, and so called for
his sentence at the word go. “You can pay $15.”
John pungled the greenbacks and departed.
The next blood thirsty villain was G. D. Mariand, who assaulted,
battered, beat, knocked down, chawed up and teetotally demolished
John — Heaven only knows what the Clerk intended to write, but the
name looks wonderfully like Gravy — with either a hoe, a cooking
stove, or a frying pan. No two witnesses swore to the same implement,
and the evidence waa strangely contrary. The Judge remarked that
there was hard swearing on one side or the other, and no wonder—
it was a hardware case all through.
The Assistant District Attorney cleared up the character of the
frying pan after a labored effort, leaving the impression that
Mariand had struck the unhappy victim with a haystack, and he
was held for sentence. We wouldn’t be surprised a bit if this
scrape costs defendant $10 before he gets through with it.
J. J. Stamer was convicted on the charge of slapping a small
boy who annoyed him by drumming on his doorstep, and was fined $15.
John Thompson was charged by officer Coffee with hitting him
in the face while he was attempting to quell a disturbance
in a low saloon.
WIFE WHIPPIST.
Dennis Meagher was convicted on the charge of larruping his better half,
a poor hard-working washerwoman, at his house at the Mission Dolores,
at 11 o’clock at night. Dennis appears to be a thoroughly bad customer,
and deserves to go back over the Bay.
SECESH HOWLER CORRALLED.
John Leonard was arrested on Pacific street, at 10 o’clock at night,
by officer King, while he was in the act of cheering Jeff Davis,
swearing that he was a Southern man, could eat a d—d Yankee at any
time for breakfast, would stand by the South to the death, etc., etc.
Judge Shepheard held him to answer at the County Court, on the charge
of uttering treason, and fixed his bail at $1,500.
A VERT PETTY LARCENY CASE.
Mrs. Hannah Spencer was charged by a pawnbroker, named John Franklin,
with petty larceny. It appeared that defendant pawned a watch-chain
with Franklin, and when she came back there was $7.16 due on it.
He was holding the chain in his hand, when she threw down a $5 greenback
and $1 in coin, snatched the chain and made oft with it. For this he
had her arrested, and Judge Shepheard held her for sentence, with
the alternative of paying $50 on the spot.