The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Drunk and Disorderly.

--Jas. Derney alias James W. Bowman, attended a ball at Emerson's hotel on Thursday night last and there imbibed too much of the fiery liquid. In the course of the evening he gave an exhibition of his vocal powers in the street, which met with an objection from some of the night watch in that section of the city. Derney became very indignant at this want of appreciation of good music, and bestowed upon them in return a tirade of abuse, accompanied with a threat to "blow their brains out," which resulted in his arrest and lodgment in the watch-house for the night. Some doubts existing as to the previous good character of the accused, coupled with the fact that there was found in his possession a pair of pincers used for picking locks, induced the Mayor to send him on for indictment before the next term of the Hustings Court Grand Jury in November next, and he was held in bonds in the sum of $500.