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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
k 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 assault upon his wife, was called; but, failing to appear