Recorder. It’s a bad time to talk about suspension; why do you request this?
Dixon. I’ve an uncle I want to see, and other relations.
Recorder. In that case we’ll send you to Black well’s island for six months, you’ll be sure to find them all there. Sentence accordingly.
Charles Enroff, charged with petty larceny—coming Paddy over an Irish shoemaker, and thereby cheating him out of a pair of shoes.—Guilty.
Sentenced to the penitentiary, Blackwell’s island, for six months, to get out stone.
Charles Thorn, charged with assaulting Miss Rachael Prigmore.
Recorder. Miss Prigmore, how came this man to strike you?
Rachael. Because I wouldn’t have him. (A laugh.) He was always a teasing me, and spouting poetry about roses and thorns; so when I told him to be off he struck me.
Prisoner (theatrically). Me strike you! Oh, Rachael—
“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs?”