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The Daily Item
Lynn, MA
Monday, 4 August 1879

         POLICE COURT
         
         Aug. 4 - JOHN HETHERINGTON, an old offender, was
       drunk and disorderly on Pleasant Street Court, where
       he lives, Saturday night, and was taken in by Officer
       Noyes. He tried hard to convince the Court that he
       hadn't been drunk, but it was n.g., and he was fined
       $8.65. HETHERINGTON has long been an unmitigated
       nuisance in the locality in which he resides.
       
         LAWRENCE LOOBY meekly admitted his imprudence in
       the matter of intoxicants, and was fined $7.55.
       
         LORENSTIN SNELL, another victim of the bubbling
       bowl, plead guilty to his offence, but wished to
       inquire, apparently merely as a matter of informa-
       tion, where he was arrested. Officer Silver informed
       him that he picked him up in the doorway at Brown &
       Oliver's, Central Avenue, at 9:30 Sunday morning.
       
         JAMES MACK plead not guilty to assault and battery
       on JOHN GALLAGHER. The government stated that the
       battle was of a mutual nature, and asked for a con-
       tinuance of a week, in which time it was expected
       GALLAGHER would be arrested. The request was granted,
       MACK furnishing $100 bonds for appearance next Monday.
       He wears a mournful eye as his fruits of the fray.
       
         JEREMIAH B. WITHERELL was arraigned by continuance
       for a second drunk. JERRY was sober this morning and
       was spruced up and looking quite nice and amiable.
       A. W. EDGERLY, his counsel, made an eloquent plea in
       behalf of his client. He said WITHERELL was no ordi-
       nary drunkard (which will readily be admitted) and
       that he had been trying to reform, but that the great
       labor and exhaustion of moving his goods had overcome
       him and he had again yielded to temptation, though at
       the solicitation of others and not of his own will.
       Counsel claimed that to send WITHERELL to the House
       of Correction would be a severe punishment to his
       family and those dependent upon him for employment,
       as well as himself. He claimed that WITHERELL was a
       thoroughly penitent man, anxious to be useful to him-
       self and to the community. To those who knew the pri-
       soner the plea was very amusing. The Court said that
       the evidence showed WITHERELL's conduct to have been
       aggravated and entirely unjustifiable, and that the
       law was made expressly to govern such cases. WITHERELL
       had been to the House of Corrections before and it
       was no new thing to him. The Court thereupon sentenced
       the wretched WITHERELL to the House of Correction for
       one month. He appealed, and if he behaves himself
       until October there may be some show of his getting
       off without imprisonment by paying costs.
       
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