Police Blotter ...1852

(When reading this just think of Jay Leno when he does police blotter reports :) These are hilarious! They are direct quotes.

From the Police Court Column - Daily Alta California 1852

George Dits was found insensible drunk in front of the Custom House. He was taken up in a handcart and emptied in the police station. Fined $5

Hyppolite Boveau, a Frenchman, fired a pistol in the street and did not know any better. Discharged.

Florence C Stevenson got drunk and attempted to take a grocery on Dupont Street by storm. Fined $7

John Gomez, a red-shirted, squalid looking greaser, was guilty of beating and maltreating his woman, quite an interesting specimen of the female sex. John accounted for her black eye by saying that the bedpost flew up and hit her. John was fined $25 and sent down for 10 days.

Colonel Waters of the Curbstone Rangers was picked up helplessly drunk on Kearny Street and taken to the station house in a wheelbarrow. Fined $5

Three Frenchmen with unpronounceable names were found very noisy on Pacific Wharf and fined $5 each.

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