The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-15
AJatigc I'm The Dock.


TIE rR1Ls THE sroRY.cF Ills PIANO suFFERNGs.
At 70 o'clock to-day the case of Justice
Knox. charged by II. a. Clark with having,
on the 9Th Of the month, disturbed the peace
by hammeriug loudly upen the thin parti-
ton which separates their respective apart
ments. came up before Justice Cox. +. A.
Clark testified to being music-tescher. Said
he:
On the day named, at about s O'Clock in
the morning, was giving music.lesson to
little girl-tbe daughter of Mrs. Shoals
when suddenly there came noise on the
wall as if some one were beating against 1t
with a sledge-bammer. And between the
blows came the voice OF Judge Knox, crying.
"Stop that noise in there" The little girl
was frightened out Of her wits, and ran
home, declaring that she would never come
again. The noise continued tor several min
utes. The same thing occurred at II O'Clock
the same forenoon. ! can swear that the
voice was that Of Judge Knox.
4 number Of witnesses were sworn VINO
testified TO having heard the humping neatly
block away. ;, MI
Jnstice Knox took the staud and said: The
,arti,ion between my ROOMS and those OF
Mr. Clark is so very thin that ordinary con-
yersation in my place can be easily heard IN
bis and uice uersd. Why, | can tell you
when lady.visitor Of bis has a silk dress on
by the rustic. Mr.. Clark doesn't seem to
know how thin the partition IL. On Inc
morning in question ! was awakened by one
of the mos. unusual noises | ever heard. L
have three rooms, and sleep 10 the middle
one, The door was closed between me and
the front room, so / don't know whether the
noise was there or in Clark's. l cried out:
"Who the blaZes is making that noise !"and
sTore like "a Turk.
When the bammering wasn't going on the
piano was. Nobody can play on that piano.
Iain't musician myself, but no one can per-
form an artistic piece on that rattle-hoX OF
machine Here the face of Judge knox
flushed with indignation, and be threw
sorrowlul glance at Mr.. Clark People say
I'm down on Mr.. Clark. 1t isn't so. have
said. and | say it again, that wish he was in
limbo with bis piano. have offered to buy
hun out at his own price, and buDt him up
better place. l have offered the landlord tive
dollars a month more than Clark pays for
TIE premises. have told the mother Of that
hale girl who comes there to play on that
soul scorching piano in the morning that l
would pay for her mus!c-lessons elsewhere,
as Understand Clark teaches her for nothing.
l b.ye tried every way to get him out fairly,
but it's no use.
Justice Knox continued: "Fm not going
10 be driven from my home, aud I'll stand as
much as another, but if any man can live in
ny house for three weeks without Jumping
ont into the street once in while, and ours
ing the day he was born, he can have the
place rent free"
Justice Knox further testified that be had
not struck the blows upon the wall, nor had
they been given with his consent. There
was nobody in the house but himself at the
tiucs named by Mr.. Clark and bis witness.
The case was then given TO the jury, who
retired at about O'Clock, aud up to the
hour of going to press 1890 p. NJ had not
been able to agree Chronicle, Virginia,
Nev.