The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Police Court.

--A number of petty cases were brought to the attention of the Head of Police yesterday and thus disposed of. It will be seen that the crop of delinquents was not very extensive, nor the offences charged such as to excite very lively feelings, one way or the other, in the breasts of anybody but the parties immediately concerned. Michael Grace was arraigned at the unit of Mrs. Downs, who charged him with an assault and battery. The proof was conflicting. The defendant objected to being considered the author of such a graceless proceeding. In order to give him an opportunity to clear his skirts, the case was continued. A soldier named Lagrona, belonging to the Maryland Line, having been arrested for getting tight, and lying on the bricks, was admonished and dispatched to rejoin his company. Peter Graham, a free negro, who had resisted the officers, in reply to their inquiry for his ‘"papers,"’ was ordered to be assaulted in a legal way with a cowskin by an officer of police and then continued in jail.--Mrs. Dunlop, who had made an unquiet demonstration against one of her neighbors, was required to give surety for her good behavior.