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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], Commencing Christmas in advance. (search)
Commencing Christmas in advance. --A white woman, named Frances Smith, who was brought into the lower station-house on Wednesday evening in a perfectly helpless condition, was arraigned before Mayor Saunders yesterday for drunkenness. She admitted that she had taken a dram, but was not intoxicated. She made a piteous appeal for a release, stating that she would never be brought before him again if excused this time. The Mayor admonished and dismissed her. J. B. Vaughan, a small man with grey hair and a moustache dyed jet black, was charged with having been drunk in the street. It appeared that he was found by Major Claiborne leaning against a lamp post, and was subsequently arrested. In consideration of the fact that this was his first appearance, the Mayor discharged him, with a warning against a repetition of his offence. R. W. Starke was also charged with getting drunk and laying down to take a nap in the streets. He is a man apparently of about forty years; g
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
nk and found lying in a door between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning. The Mayor remarked that he was a very small boy to be guilty of such an offence, but pleading the approach of Christmas as an excuse, he was discharged with some good advice. Robert W. Starke, who was up on Friday for drunkenness, again made his appearance on a similar charge. The Mayor required him to give security to keep the peace for twelve months. Frances Loving, who appeared on Friday under the name of Frances Smith, was again up for drunkenness. Policeman Epps testified that he found her lying in a perfectly helpless condition upon the street, with a bottle of whisky by her side. She stated that she was "violent sick," and only took two drums by the advice of a physician. Having given the Mayor a solemn promise not to appear again before him, and in consideration of the fact that a protracted imprisonment might prove fatal to her, she was discharged. John Welch, charged with making an assau