Show OBMN4NOK BREAKERS The Grist Bround out at the Police Po-lice 4 oart Yesterday Yesterday afternoon the habitues ot the Police Court haJ some sort of a picnic in listening to the casp3 as they were disposed ot by his honor Judge Pyper The auxiiua teat was occupied as it has not been occupied for many a day and the dispatch with which the otfeudera were atoo i up and fined or discharged was reuiarsaole Tue minor cases t the drunks and p ace disturber were settled by the panie pleading tm tty and being sentenced sen-tenced in short ordr Henry Tipton who under the mfl lenue of the ardent felt strong out not strong en ugh to resist arrest was mulcted ii 10 HI d the poloier W O Wiimndy WhO i r d with the officers in the arrest although he stated to the coun mat Uv inoKuuw dey vos ovvicers was fimd in a like amount with the opti m of doing ten days work on till city improvements Klbau who was arrst I Wednesday n ghr > for disturbing the peace by ann an-n > iiig the Salvation Army folKs was fi edlO I J AiiNaueruy a plain druuk was fiufd n V P Orowley arrested for vagrancy and profit ity in spited his aasertio to the coiurjry was adjudged gUilty of the first portion of he charge but as his Wld not an a gr vated case sentence was suspended on tile poianity part of the complaint he was proven guilty aud a fine of 5 astJlobed against him which be will work out Tne battery casa II ted in yeserdays HtBALD of Mike Murphy was next The array of wane sea who testified against the solitary statement of the accused was proof positive that the Dealing was must brutal and uncalled for The g Ht of the evidence went to suow that Stephens the injured man was in Tummy Hillstettds saloon ou Wfdnesa y night with a number friends sitting around one of the tables drinking beer when Murphy approached with the evident intention of joining the group Stephens objected and told him to ktep away as the crowd didnt want his company This offended Murphy who immediately immedi-ately picked pp a ber class and btruok tae complainant wbile biB head was turned cutting an extensive gash in the side of hill head following the blow with three or four others in rapid succession suc-cession bringing the blood at every strike After tbe dastard assault the prsoiitr ran out cf the door and across the s rett to the Overland Officer Pickctts testimony went to show ithat he arrest d Murphy in bed at the house named When he told trio < bruiser that he was wanted the latter asked What for The oJicer told him hed killed a man at Xomneys when he strongly denied all knowledge of the affairbut afterwards acknowledged tnat Stephens bad in suited one of his friends Murphy said the reaon he assaulted Stephens wag bicause the latter had called him a stiff and 3 roper The injured man presented a sorry spectacle in court with his head bandaged band-aged and a few of the marks of violence ou the unoovered portion of his head and face his right ear was minus a small piece and a scar near his left eyebrow marked one place where the savage Murphy had struck him Judge Pyper in summing up said that itbusiv lan iiiico never j istiQes IJ anis ault calling name Was no justifi r caton for battery wben the battery was comtmtea was when Stephens told the defendant that hi didn t want his company The injury to tie wounded man was a serious thought not necessarily neces-sarily tatal one He might have been killed with the beer glass in which case a charge of murder would have been preferred He would take iuto consideration the gravity of the otienso anu the circumstances circum-stances which surrounded it and sen tece the defendant to two months or sixty days i the County Jail and top to-p y afiue cf 100 or in default of the payment of the fine labor at 1 a day The postponed case against Dan Henry for stealing gun barrels was taken np and a 10 yearold son of Mr Paddock questioned as to the connection connec-tion of the accused with the theft The hearing was continued until this morning morn-ing |