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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
ce sufficiently positive to justify the detention of Hickman, he was discharged. James Smith, a youthful vagabond of some twelve years, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in the streets. He had a white woolen comforter wound around his head in the place of a cap. No one appeared to testify against him, and he was released with the usual admonition. Smith left the court-room with such an erect and soldier-like mein as to cause a hearty laugh among the spectators. Frank Smith, another boy of about the same age, with a dirty face and closely-cropped hair, was also charged with having been drunk 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