By Mike Simmons
Monday, July 18, 1887
Police Court
Arrests:
Ada Castillo, fighting; fined $5
Maggie Hayes, fighting; fined $5
Nelse Johnson, drunk; fined $7.50
Malcolm Carmighel, drunk and disorderly; fined $7.50
John Stuart, drunk and disorderly; fined $5
Idell Marshall, loitering about the streets at night; fined $7.50
E. Hester, cursing and assaulting; case continued
The Chief said, “Tramps have been an unknown quantity in Pensacola’s Police annals for months past. The drunks in the above report were arrested Saturday night; no Sunday whiskey in “their’n.”
The boys and girls were put to work as usual this morning, notwithstanding the recent decision of the Supreme Court that a municipality had no power to make prisoners work. But they soon discovered that the prisoners would much rather work in the fresh air than sit in the dungeon or sweat box.
