INMATES OF SHERIFF LINDY’S HOTEL 1873

LINDY, SNOWDEN, LAMBERT, HARDIN, MUELLER

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 8/1/2016 at 11:32:04

Dubuque Herald, Jan. 5, 1873

INMATES OF SHERIFF LINDY’S HOTEL – Sheriff Lindy began business for the new year at his stone manse, fronting on 8th Street, with a rather limited number of boarders. On the 5th day and first Sunday in January, 1873, the vigilant officer has but five gentry to keep and care for. The first in William Snowden, an insane patient belonging to Dubuque County, who has returned to us as incurable, from the hospital at Mt. Pleasant. Second, is a white gentlemen, M. S., are the initials of his Christian name, sentenced at the term of the district court just closed, to three months imprisonment for grand larceny, in a sheepish sort of way – he did not take the sheep, but got the skin only in a very clandestine manner, a Judge Wilson thought. Thirdly, C. Lambert is taking a sober term of thirty days duration in the jail house, for being intoxicated and troublesome on sundry occasions when not necessary to the general joy of the community. Fourthly, Robert Hardin, an old settlor at Dubuque County, but latterly a vagrant on the town, fares sumptuously with the trio first mentioned, bound over in the sum of $100 until the next term of the district court. It must be a reflection of utterable grief to Mr. Hardin's mind that after his protracted residence in our midst there is no tenderhearted friend to go his bond for only $100, when he has been so faithful in his profession as nocturnal perambulator and vagrant on general principals. And last on the list, Mr. Frederick W. Mueller, the criminal party in the Epworth seduction case, who is serving out six month’s sentence imposed on him.