CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

Abstracts 4000 - 4006

ROBBERIES & ASSAULTS (Cont'd)

4000 L Oct. 30:7/1 George Knox, while riding home on Oct. 28, was attacked and robbed of $25, near the toll gate at Lorain st. and the Case farm. (2)

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4001 L Oct. 31:8/1 The board of police commissioners have wisely taken steps to discover whether there is any truth in the charges made against Sergeant Helsby. At a meeting yesterday the board adopted the following: Whereas, it is the desire and interest of this board to retain no one of doubtful reputation on the police force of this city; therefore, resolved, that a committee of this board be appointed to investigate said charges and report whether there is sufficient grounds to prefer charges against and bring said Sergt. Helsby before this board for trial.

4002 L Nov. 4:8/1 Sergeant Helsby was found guilty yesterday in Probate court of the charge of assault and battery on the person of D. W. Aylworth.

4003 L Nov. 6:8/1 Sergeant Helsby was fined ten dollars and costs ycsterday in the probate court for committing an assault and battery on the person of D. W. Aylworth of the 18th ward.

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4004 L Nov. 12:7/1 James T. Durwell of St. Clair st. was robbed of nine dollars last night while on his way home.

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4005 L Nov. 18:7/3

A John Flanigan, John Morgan, and Thomas Cassidy entered the saloon in the 18th ward on Nov. 16 and assaulted the bartender, They were arrested and taken to central

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Mail Robberies

4006 L Feb. 7:8/3 - A year ago Dudley and Wales were arrested for mail robbery on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway. Their cases were widely published and excited considerable comment. They have been convicted jointly of robbing the U. S. mails, and the sentence of the court is that each must pay a fine of $100 and costs and serve one year at a western penitentiary. Dudley, on a charge of receiving a draft stolen from the U. S. mails, is sentenced to an additional five years with a $50. fine and cost. Wales, for obtaining a letter by fraud, is fined $100 and costs and one year imprisonment. Also, for stealing a letter from the mails directed to firms, he is fined $100 and sentenced to three years imprisonment. The sentence must be served one after the other until the whole time shall have expired. Wales tripped along as lively as though he had been acquitted. Dudley was lively also.

Dudley faces a total sentence of $600 and six years, Wales $300 and five years.

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

Abstracts 4007 - 4009

ROBBERIES & ASSAULTS Mail Robberies (Cont'd)

4007 L Feb. 12:7/4 - In the case of the United States versus Newton Sutherland, indicted for "unlawfully detaining a letter which had come in his possession to be conveyed by mail," he was fined ten dollars and costs.

Railroad Robberies

4008 L Feb. 3; ed: 4/2 Five Iowa train robbers, who escaped into Missouri after a crime last spring, seem to have broken out 20 miles southwest of St. Louis on Jan. 31. They stopped a train merely by pulling a switch; stripped all the passengers and railroad employes of their money and valuables, and with a tip of their hats they bade the passengers "bon voyage.

"There is a style about these border brethren, which makes them fascinating even in their wickedness."

See also Courts

RUBBER

4009 L Nov. 25; ed: 4/2 - The introduction of rubber tires for carts and hacks to produce quietness elicits the following: "At all events the rubber tire must fail in one respect; it cannot impart to the wheel the strength and firmness that the iron one does, so in order to meet that difficulty an iron tire shod with an outer perimeter of rubber will undoubtedly be necessary."

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RUGS. See Carpets & Rugs

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

Abstracts 4010 - 4014

SAFES. See Locks & Safes

SALOONS

4010 - L Jan. 23:8/2 - On Jan. 22, J. W. Schmitt, superintendent of police instructed Police Captain McMahon to enforce the Sunday liquor ordinance.

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4011 - L Jan. 26; ed: 8/2 The statement made by Councilman Russell on the night of Jan. 20 to the effect that the police "dare not enforce" the Sunday liquor law has a practical repetition in the record of yesterday. The ordinance was enforced, as well as one could expect with all things taken into consideration. The closing of saloons on the Sabbath day depends entirely on the police who have the power to enforce the law if they desire to do it. (10) 4012 L Jan. 29; ed: 4/1 - The excise commission of New York is in trouble. Police reported that 2,300 liquor shops are open on Sunday. This board is expected to try each case under the law to close saloons on Sunday. The commissioners have rented Dramatic hall and propose to make a business of

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4013 L Feb. 2:7/3 In a letter to the editor, Whately says: "See LEADER of 28 ult. Criminals are held responsible for the natural results of their actions, and logicians for the truths and inferences coming legitimately from their facts and reasoning. Let us try our Police Commissioner's report upon drunkenness by this test:"

First, selling liquor by the dram is a necessary and laudable occupation, so essential to the public good that it should be authorized and sanctioned by the state.

Second, although a public benefit, it should be restricted to a few by stringent regulations and a large license fee.

Close and grave attention is now called to the philosophical argument found in the nature of man.

First, remove or close by law the dram shop where a man is accustomed to get his drink, and he will get a jug full, and taking it home, get on a bigger and longer drunk.

Second, place drink before a man without dictating how much he shall drink; he will satisfy his appetite and continue drinking.

Now the religious argument.

First, the defect in the Sunday law is that it applies to shops where all classes get their drink, it should be restricted to those of the "lower orders."

Second, our religious citizens could do no better service for religion than to open attractive dram-shops on Sunday, early in the morning, in the fashionable quarters of the city, where the better classes could drink themselves "temperate" before church hours.

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4014 L Mar. 7; ed: 4/1 Philadelphia is after the Sunday liquor business. A petition with 4,000 signatures was presented to Mayor Stokeley asking the enforcement of the law.

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

4015 L Mar. 10; ed: 4/1 The Philadelphia saloon keepers forestalled the Sunday law legislation that was demanded by the public. The Liquor Dealers Protective association adopted a resolution requesting every member to close his place of business every Sunday. As the association includes all the saloons in the city, their action is as effective as a sweeping ordinance.

4016 L Mar. 23; ed: 4/2 The superintendent of police today issued an order to arrest any saloon keeper who sells liquor to a minor or to drunkards. There are many legal remedies for intemperance that are not used. Indictments could be obtained against the 1,300 liquor dealers of this city under the Ohio state law. The Sunday closing ordinance is violated and arrests could be made under it also. More real work and less loud talk is now demanded.

4017 L Mar. 27; ed: 4/1 Geghan, the Democratic member from Hamilton county, has been working all winter to get through an amendment to the Adair law requiring two written notices to be served on saloon keepers before they become amenable to prosecution. The House by a strong vote defeated the amendment. "Geghan may retire."

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4018 L Apr. 4; ed: 4/1 The HERALD refused to publish the communication signed "Many Citizens of the second Ward." "This shows that the HERALD is determined that an Anti-Sunday Liquor Law man shall be elected from the second ward."

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L Apr. 6:4/1 - The Saloon Keeper's association held a business meeting at Stein's hall on Apr. 4. It was found that the association was almost unanimously in favor of the ticket nominated by the Democratic convention yesterday.

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4020 L Apr. 11; ed:4/1 "Philadelphia is evidently improving in morals. The Quaker city has 1,205 less saloons than it had last year, and the people feel that the decrease is a timely and palpable blessing."

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The chief

4021 L Apr. 16:7/4,5 In a letter to the editor, "C" says: of the New York police was asked what would be the effect upon the police of the city if every saloon in New York closed at ten p.m. He said instantly that it would make unnecessary one-half of the police of the city. Is it to be wondered at then that the chief of police and police commissioners refuse to afford protection to the ladies engaged in a humanizing effort? (6)

"The Cincinnati GAZETTE is bothering the Chief It wants to know by what authority he closes the front doors of saloons on Sunday, and permit the back ones to be opened. The Chief maintains his official dignity by profound silence as to the queries."

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

Abstracts 4023 - 4028

SALOONS (Cont'd)

4023 L May 4; ed: 4/1 "In Warren there is a powerful public opinion which warns saloon keepers to leave at once.'

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4024 L May 15; ed: 4/3 - The Cincinnati board of aldermen held a special session to repeal the Sunday ordinance, and wiped out the offending statute. "It may yet happen that Cleveland may be called to face a similar issue. The Sundays of free drinks and long police court lists is too fresh in the experience of this city to permit the remedy to be lightly thrown away.'

4025 L May 16:8/2 The WAECHTER AM ERIE says: "We are not in favor of licentiousness.

Disorder and disturbance should, on Sunday, as well as on other days, be suppressed and punished, but there is no reason why, for the sake of preventing disturbances, every free movement and every respectable amusement should be prohibited."

"It is expected that the WAECHTER will not be satisfied with anything said on the Sunday question by a newspaper holding different views from its own."

4026 L May 22:7/2

Prosecuting Attorney Robison yesterday received the

following letter, which was unsigned:

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"I notice that the grand jury has found about 500 indictments against saloon keepers in this city, and I am informed that my name is among them. You have often drank at my bar and in the presence of a number of witnesses pledged your influence and aid, as an officer, to restrain and repress this bigoted temperance excitement. If war commences against us, we will retaliate, and we will not only aim at reputations but at property as well." To which Mr. Robison replies: "I presume that no one will fire my humble dwelling without notifying my wife and child, and in regard to my reputation, after the pledges the writer says I have made, I think I ought not to consider the little I will suffer, compared with the public benefit of a disclosure, and so far as my personal safety is concerned, it would be of little consequence should I make a breach of public trust or refuse to perform my official duties." (10) 4027 L June 1:8/2 Among the 191 saloon keepers who are to be tried for violating the state liquor law are Alice Atherton, J. O. Beirn, and Alexander Boles.

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(9) 4028 L June 6; ed: 4/5 - "There ought to be backbone enough in the Council to resist this movement for repeal. There certainly is firmness enough among the people to insist that the law shall stand. The saloon men cannot take a more fatal step than to push this thing too far. The repeal of the Sunday law would be the beginning of a crusade, in which not merely the people now conspicuous in the temperance movement, but the moderates as well the whole law and order majority would be on one side. It would be a fight which for the best interest of the community, had better be avoided. If the repeal party is wise, it will stop where it now is, and be content with what it has got. (18)