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WELLAND POLICE COURT
(Before Mr. Hellems)
[Welland Tribune, 15 January 1892]
Jan.11- W.J. Rutledge, an inmate of the Industrial Home, was charged by Keeper Hemming with insubordination and with punching Richard Hanna, another inmate. The charge was sworn to by witnesses, but Rutledge, who showed a good deal of skill and intelligence in his own defence, claimed that other witnesses would tell a different tale. The case will be disposed of tomorrow at 9 a.m.
Jimmy McEvoy, an old pensioner and general choreman about the hotels here for some years past, came up as a vagrant. Whiskey is Jimmy’s ruination, as it is that of so many. Jimmy was given two months in jail which will tide him over next pension pay day.
Jacob Heaslip, of Fort Erie, charge with abduction of his sister from his step-mother, appointed the child’s guardian by a U.S. Court. The case had previously been heard. The magistrate’s decision was that he could make no order with respect to the disposal of the child, but could only deal with the alleged abduction as an offence by itself. Action for the possession of the child would require to be taken in a higher court. As to the abduction, the defendant was admitted to bail to answer at next sittings of high court, G.W. Ramey and M. Vanderburgh going on his bonds.
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