Recorder. This rioting is a very bad crime, Shay, and deserves heavy punishment; but as we understand you have a wife and sundry little Shays, we’ll let you off, provided you give your solemn promise never to do so any more.
Shay. I gives it—wery solemnly.
Recorder. Then we discharge you.
Shay. Thank your honour—your honour’s a capital judge.
John Bowen, charged with stealing a basket. Guilty.
Recorder. Now, John, we’ve convicted you; and you’ll have to get out stone for three months on Blackwell’s Island—that’s the judgment of the court.
Buckley and Charles Rogers, charged with loafing, sleeping in the park, and leaving the gate open, were discharged, with a caution to take care how they interfered with corporation rights in future, or they would get their corporation into trouble.
Ann Boyle, charged with being too lively in the street. Let off on condition of being quiet for the time to come.
Thomas Dixon, charged with petty larceny. Guilty.
Dixon. I wish to have judgment suspended.