A PROFESSIONAL GARROTER NABBED. - Officers Lees, Chappel, and Ellis, have done the community good service in arresting a notorious old State Prison convict named Sam Markle, alias Slippery Sam, alias Sam Wilson. He has been a pal of Mortimer, who recently attempted the murder of Officer Rose. Markle has been for some time prowling about our city, for the purpose of exercising his garroting accomplishments. He went up to Sacramento yesterday afternoon, in charge of an officer of that city, to answer for certain burglaries and exploits on the road. The last time Markle was up on a charge in Sacramento, a lot of Colt's pistols was found in his possession. The Judge asked him where he got them. He declined stating, with the remark that if he told, he would be sent to prison. The Judge threatened to confine him a week, if he refused. "Well," said Markle, "if I do tell, you'll send me up anyhow; so I'll let you find out." He didn't tell, nor the Judge didn't find out, so he escaped on that nip. Markle understands his business.
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TRUE INJUN. - A little Indian girl named Isabella Swain, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Officer Clarke and Fire Warden Durkee, and held on six charges of arson. She was within the past few days, made four attempts to burn the St. Lawrence Hotel, on Market street, and two or three similar attempts on the residents of a Mr. Fisher. She gives no reason for wishing to destroy the hotel; but says that Mr. Fisher punished her some time since, and she tried to burn his house out of revenge. She will probably be sent to the Industrial School. She is but nine years of age, and as vengeful as the wildest Indian in the country.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 1.]
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THE MONITOR'S PROGRESS. - Some delay has been experienced at the Camanche, in the carpenter work, in consequence of not receiving some timber ordered from Oregon for the wood armor. The balance of the work, however, is progressing rapidly. The propeller has been firmly attached to the shaft, the rudder put in place, a good degree of progress made in putting on the five inch iron armor, and the hull has received a coat of zinc-white paint. Some twenty-five or thirty deaf and dumb boys, from the Asylum, visited the Camanche yesterday, under the care of the Superintendent, and appeared much interested in examining all parts of the work. About four hundred dollars has been received for the Sanitary Fund during the past week.
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GILBERT'S MUSEUM. - They have engaged an individual at the Museum who may be said to be minimum in regard to size, and maximum as to muscle. He is called the Lilliputian Hercules, and is probably about the dimensions of that mythological deity, when, as a suckling in his cradle, he strangled a serpent. He is some at lifting heavy weights, and it is proposed to engage him for the purpose of boosting the McClellanites into power. You can see the baneful effects of slavery here, too, in the person of a diminutive North Carolina female contraband, who has about as much brain as a humming-bird, and who could be put into a gallon measure with ease without contracting her crinoline. There are many other things here which make one lift his eyes and wonder at the freaks of Nature when she is in a frolicsome mood. Mr. Hudson has again assumed the management of the Museum, and he will speedily add other novelties to the collection.
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THE RIOTERS. - Four or five of the steamer strikers were arraigned in the Police Court yesterday, but after a hearing they were dismissed from custody. The prosecuting attorney took the wide ground that all who were in the neighborhood of the locality where the alleged riot occurred, were proper subjects for prosecution and punishment, but even with so extensive a field to operate in, he failed to convict anybody.
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AFRICAN TROUBLES. - No cause of complaint seems to be too insignificant to be brought before the Police Court. A negro, named Kane, appeared yesterday and set forth that he had a child boarding with a negro named Turner, and that for insignificant provocation, Turner set the child down too roughly on a bench, or jammed him on it, or bounced him on the floor. The case was dismissed.
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ACCOMMODATING WITNESS. - A man was summoned to testify in the Police Court, yesterday, and simply because he said he would swear a jackass was a canary, if necessary, his services were declined. It was not generous to crush a liberal spirit like that.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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