Los Angeles Herald, Volume 39, Number 109, 28 January 1893 — POLICE COURT FEATURES [ARTICLE]

POLICE COURT FEATURES

A DESCRIPTION OP PEOPLE WHO FREQUENT SUCH PLACES. Persona Who Go to Law to Get Even. How Vindictive Women Can Prosecute Men Agalust Whom They Have a Grudge. The police court of a city offers unusual advantages {or the study ol human nature. Here it ia seen in ita primitive Btate. The majority of. cases are of a very trivial nature, and are brought from "spite," especially when a woman is the complainant.

In every neighborhood there are persons who are ready at every excuse lo appeal to the law. These soon become familiar figures in the police court, and the judge learns to estimate the probabilities oi their having forced a quarrel on the opposing litigants, trusting to their chances of success. Should Mrs. O'Hoolihan's cow trespass upon Mrs O'Flaherty'e premises, and should these women happen to be at "oute," Mrs. O'Flaharty rushes to the law, and makes Buch a charge against Mrs. O'Hoolihan that the district attorney issues the warrant. When the case comes on for trial ehe cannot prove what she stated, and the case iB dismissed. The majority of those who go to law do so in order to "get even," using the courts as a lever for revenge. This is especially noticeable in cases where women who wish to get even with some man for a real or imaginary grievance swear that he has committed an immoral assault upon them. As there are no witnesses, it is a case of veracity between the man and woman. She knows that a woman generally attracts sympathy, especially in such cases, and that public eentiment iB again -t the man accused. The man's character haa been blackened by the charge, aud after hia acquittal he haa no recourse. More frequently the charge is made that the assault is attempted upon a small girl. This ao prejudices public eentiment against the man accuped that, even after his acquittal, he is ostracißed by hia friends, and the public, who do not know of tho spite work at the bottom, ever after regard the man with suspicion. Another feature of the police court ie the tramps who are roused out of outhouses and box cars. They have "no place where to lay their heads," and their only crime ie that they have slept upon Bomeone'a premises. The police department and the police court are thus used to protect the properly of these men, who should look after their own interests and at their own expense. Seeing that the courts and police are thus used by the police for the benefit of private parties the Chinese have reaorted to similar devices. When one company steals a woman from auothet Bhe is charged with larceny in wearing away a few of the trinkets, which her owner says belongß to him. The case is fought out in the courts at the expense of the taxpayers, and no matter to which company ehe is awarded, ber condition is the came.

ARIZONA. News Notes from the sW-Klsscd Terrl-

Tory, [Yuma Times, Jan.2sth ) It ia to be. regretted that work haa been suspended on the levee at the foot of Main atreet. Until March let the danger from high water in the Gila will be great and ordinary high water ia sufficient to flood the river front if left unprotected. The work already done is good as far as it goes and would be all right if finished. We hope the powers that be will see the necessity of having the work conpleted as soon as poßßible. Last Mond ay Probate Judge Ewing isrued an order commanding the release of Frank Clark from the penitentiary. Clark was tried and convicted in Apache county in September. 1887, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, for tbe crime of murder in the eecond degree. The Mohawk valley farmers are busy with their winter crops. About 2000 acres will be sowed to grain and alfalfa. Or. W. Norton has put in 400 acres of grain for the company and oUO for himself. Robert D. Chappell will have 200 acres; Clark'a ranch 250 acres. The Finley boya will work theLandon place. The valley will be visited this week by a party of San Francisco and eastern capitalists and their visit will no donbt reBui* in many improvements being made this season. Joe Carter, the veteran desert man who can go nine, daya without water, waa in town Monday dressed in hia best suit of clothes. Joe sbvb he has given up tbe rope end of the cattle business for awhile owing to rheumatic complications. [ The Prescott Courier, Jan. 2(1 th J Frank Harmon found some very rich gold rock about two miles east of town a few days ago, and now bslieves he haa discovered the ledge whence it came. The gold waa found in white quartz, streaked with iron. Mr. H. ground up about two pounde of tbe ore in a mortar and obtained about $5 worth of gold from it. There iB evidently a very rich pocket of ore somewhere in that vicinity.

The Commercial Mining company are reported to have shipped 40 cars of concentrates, mostly from tbe Boggs mine, in the past two months, which netted $3000 per car. The shipments were made over the line of the P. &A. C. railway.

[Tucson Star, January '25.] CATTLE CALLINGS.

The Shaw and Bernard cattle shipment were loaded at Casa Grande lor California yeaterday. Tbe cattle sold by Sam Hughes, now being rounded up, will be shipped next Monday to Nevada. In the Tortillitas cattle are looking fine. Range iB good and water obtainable in the mouutaine to some extent. The removal of 700 head of cattle by Felix Ruelaa from Crittenden to the range 20 milea west of the city ie resulting disastrously. Tbe atock are dying to tbe extent of a considerable percentage. Two train loada of cattle, numbering 1100 head, left Wilcox this week. One train, thoae purchased by Mr. Stone, left Tuesday evening, and the other, of Sierra Bonita cattle, left Wednesday, both destined for California. A train load of cattle, gathered in Sonora and belonging to Arizona ranchmen, chiefly Pusch & Zellweger and Maish & Driecoll, will arrive in town this evening. They were purchased by Mr. Powell of Los Angeles. M. W. Stewart of Sierra Bonita ranch is at the Palace. He reporta that the cattle of thia district will pull through the winter all right; that ranges are well worn, but that none to apeak of have died, but that about 3000 head have been shipped to California. With nerves unstrung Rnd heads that ache W]q„ trnnv'7l Tlrr,-«o.«olt7Cr '■.trn