JUDICIAL CHANGE. - Day before yesterday, the Shephe(a)rd went out, and the Lamb entered the fold; or to be more explicit, Judge Shepheard attended the Grand Chapter of Masons, and Judge Lamb presided in the Police Court in his place. This excellent joke about the shepherd going away and the lamb entering the fold, was the result of the combined labor and concentrated talent of all the morning paper reporters in convention assembled in the City Hall on the day in question, after the adjournment of the Court, and was their exclusive property and was to have been copyrighted; but the Pirate of the Bulletin, with a depravity never before displayed by a reporter having got wind of the extra ordinary jeu d'esprit or esprit de corps, or whatever it is the French call it, stole and published it in advance of its inspired architects and builders. Conduct like this requires no comment, and admits of none. We drop the matter, and return to business: Judge Shepheard having attended to his Masonic engagements, resumed his place upon the Police Court bench yesterday morning.
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POLICE COURT. - Eliza Munroe, for misdemeanor, was fined ten dollars. Dennis Meagher, for beating his wife, was fined two hundred and fifty dollars, in default of payment of which, he must go to prison for one hundred days: he is a confirmed wife-whipper, a fact which Judge Lamb, who was on the Bench, had personal knowledge of, as Mr. Meagher resides in his neighborhood. James Cosgrove, assault and battery, was fined ten dollars. H. Rappepo, for the same offence, was ordered to appear to day for sentence. Mrs. Marks went to Mrs. Rappepo's house to remove some trunks belonging to her and Mrs. R. refused to admit her, and also struck her twice. Lawyer Platt was a witness for the prosecution. They are a bad lot all around -- we mean the parties to the suit, not citizen Sam. Platt. R. B. Martin, one of the steamer rioters, was convicted of misdemeanor in using bad language, and fined ten dollars. On Monday, eight theatre cases are to be tried.
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CONVICTED. - The trial of Charles Lannigan, charged with robbing the till of O. T. Flynn's grocery, corner of Eighth and Howard streets, was concluded yesterday in the Police Court, and went against the defendant, who will be sentenced this morning. Mr. Murphy proved that Lannigan's character was good, because he had previously had opportunities of stealing, but didn't steal, and Mr. Platt demonstrated that his character was bad, because he had one opportunity of stealing, and did steal. The lobby members considered it about a stand off.
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