The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-01-25


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freight charges R. HAWKINS, Agent.
In THE POLICE CoURr-THE EXTREMI-
TIES TO WHICH THE COLD HAS DRIVEN
t he PooR.-It was showing thick and fast
Monday morning, and men shivered and hud-
died around the stove as they entered the
Police Court, and shook the great fakes
from their heavy coats. Mayor Baths stood
rubbing and warming his hands for a min
ute, and then called the first case. The pris-
oner was negro man about fifty years old !,
barefooted, bareheaded, and his clothes
from his coat was entirely gone and nothing
but the thin lining served to protect his arm
from the biting cold. The charge was steal
ing bushel of coal. Mr.. Doom, the watch
O'Clock in the morning, when it was broad
daylight, he had caught the man in the act
of taking some coal from G. 6 O. r. r.
Cal. When asked what he was doing he at
first replied, Nothing" and then added
that Ike ''only wanted to get a little coal.''
When arrested and told that he would have
to 60 to Jail, he expressed neither surprise
nor displeasure, but followed meekly along,
as if glad of any shelter from the snow, and
slcet and cold. He could get no work, he had
said, and was without any fire. The case
was ptiable one and excited the sympathy
of all who saw the mans condition and lis
tened to the story. Even Cinthy Kurtz,
who has been raised in police court, and
ought to have been hardened to such scenes,
was moved. aud he made the boys hustle ont
of the way and let the poor negro get near
the stove.
The second and third cases were precisely
similar. The prisoners had been caught In
broad daylight, and hal no defence save
that of dire necessity. When the evidence
was completed, Mayor Balthis handled the
warrants for moment or Two, as if trying
to determine whether he should judge &C.
cording to the law, Or his own feelings; but,
in the end, the law prevailed, and sentence
was pronounced. The penalties were thu
lghtest that could be inflicted, being foul
days in Jail for two OF them, and one day fol
the other.
AS the prisoners were leaving the Court
men who had been sentenced, asked hi
Honor if she could say word, and befor,
answer could be made. went Oh to tell he
story She was the mother OF six little chill
dren, she said, and they were at home with
out fire and without food. They had not liat
enough to cat even during Christmas, ant
on the morning her husband was arrested
she had sent him out to see if he could gath
er up some coal and chips around the depot
She had applied for wood to the Overseer o
the Poor, but he had told her that ther'
were too many cases in ahead oflsers. Be
fore she had finished iier story, the tear!
were running down her checks, and as sh'
let the room she put both hands to her fac'
and sobbed aloud.