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The now semi-derelict building in Tobago Street which housed both the Eastern Division Police Office and the Eastern Police Court. Charging Thunder spent an uncomfortable weekend here at New Year 1892.
There were probably a fair number of hangovers in Glasgow on the morning of Friday, the first of January 1892. One of these belonged to a twenty-four year-old Lakota Indian named Charging Thunder. To make matters worse, he awoke in a prison cell, and had to make an appearance in the Eastern Police Court to answer for the assault which he had perpetrated on George Crager on the afternoon before. The case was continued until Monday morning, owing to the fact that Mr Crager was still nursing a sore head of his own, although in this instance alcohol was not the immediate cause. When the case was called on Monday morning, Charging Thunder was remanded in custody, and his case was remitted to the Sheriff Court.
When the case came before the Sheriff on the 12th of January, Charging Thunder pled guilty through an interpreter, who would either have been John Shangrau or else Crager himself. In mitigation, Charging Thunder claimed that his lemonade had been 'mistakenly' spiked with whisky! He was however unable to identify the pub in which he had been drinking. The Sheriff sentenced him to thirty days imprisonment in Glasgow's notorious Barlinnie prison.
Several Glasgow newspapers carried accounts of the hearing on the following day, 13th January. Quite remarkably, Charging Thunder was not the only American Indian whose brush with the law was reported on that day. Running Wolf, from Mexican Joe's show had also fallen foul of the authorities, and his hearing, on a charge of assault, also received attention in the newspapers on the same date.
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