NEWS: Police News, Altoona Times, July 18, 1903, Blair County, PA

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MINOR POLICE NEWS

  One common drunk was run in this morning.
  Three common drunks were locked up last night.
  The case of the commonwealth vs. W. W. John and Samuel Rickabaugh, charged 
with trespassing, before Alderman J. J. Irwin, will be heard at 8 this 
evening.
  Annie Jones has made information before Alderman J. B. Raymond against 
Jacob Stalb, charging him with assault and battery.  The case will be heard 
this morning at 10.
  Mrs. L. Berman charges Mrs. Cecelia Carp, before Alderman T. D. Crawford 
with assault and battery on her child, who, it is alleged, she struck on the 
mouth with a stone.  The case will be heard next Monday.
  Henry W. Cowley did not escape from the almshouse, as stated in yesterday's 
issue, but was taken away from that institution six weeks ago by a relative, 
who informed Steward Bridenbaugh that he would care for the old gentleman at 
his home in Altoona.
  C. Babb and Barney Thompson were arrested yesterday for trespassing on the 
railroad.  The latter is a pupil from the Carlisle Indian School.  A telegram 
was received last night from the school, saying that an officer would be 
after the young fellow to take him back to his studies.
  A traveling man reported to the police yesterday that he had set his 
satchel down in the Brant House and when he came to look for it, it was gone.  
It was learned that a minister, in going away from the house, had exchanged 
grips with the drummer, leaving the clerical one and taking the one full of 
samples.

Altoona Times, Saturday, July 18, 1903