NEWS: Court Items, Altoona Tribune, August 2, 1918, Blair County, PA

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ALDERMANIC NOTES.
Cased Heard or to be Disposed of in Courts of Local Magistrates.

  John Barner, charged with disorderly conduct before Alderman Leake, First 
ward, settled the case after a hearing yesterday, and paid the costs.  He was 
discharged on an assault and battery complaint heard later.
  Mike Naimo and Fred Pulcina, two boys arrested for the robbery of F. S. 
Whitaker's hardward store, Eighth avenue, were before Alderman Shuff for a 
hearing yesterday.  The case was settled and the lads given over to care of the 
probation officer.
  Dr. S. G. Gearhart, of Osceola, was given a hearing before Alderman Shuff, of 
the Fourth ward, yesterday, on the charge of operating an automobile while 
intoxicated.  The charge was preferred by Constable H. M. Gill.  He was held in 
bail for his appearance at court.
  Alderman Shuff, of the Fourth ward, yesterday heard the case of John DeFalco 
against Sam and Tina Pirozzola, on the charge of disorderly conduct.  The case 
was settled by the payment of a fine and the costs.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 2, 1918, page 12


TWO SENTENCED TO PRISON BY MAYOR
Disorderlies Given Twenty and Thirty Days Each at Police Court Session

  Two men, both disorderlies, were sentenced to spend twenty and thirty days in 
the county jail when they were unable to produce money for their fines at police 
court yesterday afternoon.
  F. A. Anderson, drunk and disorderly, was fined $30.50 or thirty days in 
prison and W. A. Griffith, charged with disorderly conduct and insulting women 
at Twelfth alley and Bridge street, was assessed $21.50 by Mayor Rhodes, or 
undergo twenty days imprisonment.
  A. Kelsey and Stella James, both colored, arrested for disorderly conduct, 
Wednesday night, were discharged.  A man charged with gambling forfeited $100.80 
security.
  James Henderson and Edward Williams, Negroes, arrested for fighting at Ninth 
avenue and Twenty-fourth street, were remanded for a hearing and last evening at 
8:40 o'clock, Harvey Kilgore, colored, the third man accused of being in the 
fray, was apprehended at Eleventh avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth 
streets.
  Police have a blue framed bicycle which was found at Tenth alley, between 
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, early yesterday morning and which the owner 
may obtain at city hall after probing his ownership.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 2, 1918, page 12