Daily National Democrat

The Police Court No Place for Family Quarrels.—John Driscoe was called in the Police Court this morning on a charge of petty larceny, being accused of stealing a shawl. It appears that the shawl was worn by his step-daughter, who refuses to live at his house, but whom he desired to go home. While she was walking on the street the other evening he seized the shawl and took it home, not with the intention of stealing but to induce her to go home, if possible. The charge was preferred by J. C. Flanders who, it appears, was walking with the step daughter at the time of the difficulty. The young woman charges that her step father is cruel, and he charges that she does not attend to her duties. There is, indeed nothing more nor less, perhaps, than a family quarrel between them. As there was no petty larceny in the case, the accused was discharged.—S. F. Bulletin, Friday.