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at the Northern District Station-house from 3 P. H., February 19th. until relieved, in the place of Justice J. McRenny White, assigned to the Juvenile Court, as above.
Wrestling Exhibition.
It was ordered that permission be granted Charles J. Weiss to hold Wrestling Exhibition at Germania Maennerchor Hall, February 27th.,1903, and that the price of said permit shall be $25.00
Bernard C. Steiner Complaint of As to Station 10, Gay and Mott streets.
Communication, as follows, was received from Bernard C. Steiner Librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library:-
¦ February 16, 1903.
Hon. George M. Upshur,
Pres. Board of Police Commissioners. Dear Sir:-
Our relations with the Police Department have been so uniformly pleasant and we have received such useful assistance from you in the matter of keeping order at our Branches and 'Main Library, that I am averse to making anything like a complaint, but think it only right to bring before you certain events which occurred last week. On Wednesday evening, at our Station No.10, on the corner of Gay & Mott streets, a boy named Harry Sherer, living at the corner of Gay & Monument streets, opened the door, pointed a pistol at the clerk in charge of the Station and fired it off. The Clerk, Miss. Richards, swore out a warrant against him at the Northeastern Police Station and was told that the case would be heard by the Juvenile Court and that she would be notified as to the hour when she should appear. She lives in the northern part of the City, and received from the police of the Northern Station, a verbal notification on Thursday evening, that she should appear at the Juvenile Court at 10 A.M., on Friday. She did appear there at that hour, found the case had been set for 9 o'clock and had been dismissed. The Northeastern Station insists that they sent proper notification by telephone to the Northern District Station, and that the fault lies at the latter place. It is decidedly unfortunate that in some way, a wrong notification reached us, thus preventing prosecution of the boy.
As we have had considerable trouble from the children congregating on the sidewalk outside of that Station in the evening, and creating disturbance there, may we ask that, for a time, we may have special police protection at that place during the evening hours? The policeman on the beat is not able to be on hand with sufficient frequency to keep the children in check.
With the assurance of high regard, I am, Yours sincerly,
BERNARD C. STEINER."
It was ordered that the above complaint be referred to the
Marshal with instructions to investigate the matter thoroughly and
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