The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-04
BEFORE HIS HONOR.
VARIOUS CASES DISPOSED or IN THE
POLICE C0IRT.
TIE MADISON STREET SCHOOL
SYSTEMATICALLY ROBBED
An InterestIng Docket.

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...','o,,,,iI' roI,berv ~ Inc anthracite Goa
n'a r,.i .bo,sc a. Madison school
trilj;,r Tbo robbery y,as the result of
. coiiusion between the colored ianitor
T,,nrs feveu and his wife Sarar Jones
"a colored cohhler ON Main street near
g.. e,5 ~ Kan. coloreJ hov named
'.n.ri.s Miller who works I'm Sarar
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it.,l,. o,'a.,. ,,,orpi,, Iorcs would sond
49, Af;Gsr a. tbo scbool-bouse with q
AID bc would go, from either
$50 l,'li o- t,s ,,.ifn or r.fber he allowed
~. ona' ~ fhe other of tbcm To- 90 i'm the
,l-Lorsc I'm tho haskell with a- much
~ to ,onl3 carry and dcpart the h0y.
-, ,i,1' coal a. Jones' This stealing
,,onid alravs bannen about 2 o'clock
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Ahont three weeks ago NJ. r. i. Der
rard nas.inc by the school house on his
w.. to business about = o'clock a. M,
.s,y how come out of the .clipol yard
with basket That appeared 60 ~ heavy.
lie walked behind him and 40 the cor
nor of Jefferson and Cary the boy pat
tbe basket on the freplu1 and stopped
to rest. As he did SD some coal fell out.
Mr. BERNARD thought something wrong
and told the police. On other mornings
subsequently, he saw the same boy do the
same thing. the last occasion being last
Wednesday Then he telephOncd The
Sergeant " l.. Thomas was pat on
watch. and Yesterday morning be
stationed himself at the corner of Canal
and Jefferson where he could see the
whole ward. He saw the boy come
around the fence with an empty basket
swung across his shoulders and enter the
ward right 40 the house in The yard where
ibe ianitor lives. walk past man whom
be saw standing in the yard, but
whom he could not recognize,
o,d 90 ma the ward 10 the coal house.
ia No, sov tLe boy return with the
l.,stct I'm bis hand and start out around
3D.. fonco Tho scroeant headed him oil
- tLe told and took how and basket.
The latter heinz inn of coal. 10 the sta-
lion house
mo how confessed the theft 10 The SER
-, o,d ~, tLo Inflammation thus ac-
57rirod he swore out warrant against
,t ,,' ion;,or croll and saoar lone. The
p lv ~ T,,'t;ro statcd thsf tbe how who
80 ~ toI ,.onr,, ~ send IN iail he would
3;.'''i7 % },;,, and nrt him on tbc stand
oso '1 Caoo,,n ,,,, witness.
The bow said that Jones sent him
,...or,, r,o,.rin,, with the basket after coal.
TELLING him that If LEVEL was not pres
ent. his wife would give it 10 him. The
how rave dates on which the ianitor gave
him permi~.ion 90 get the GOA. and other
dates when the wife did so
LEVEL took the stand. and sworc that
last Saturday. one of the dates the boy
mentioned he bad given him the coal, DE
was upstairs, but that the cOal-house was
open.
Clerk Rady and Principal Jones, OF
Madison school. seemed anxious to- give
Level character sooa an" u'U ~ III.
, Ai.cI s i., "' , ,io eyerr sn.ni.
usll'o 'io''''1,' -. AMI so.s, Ione-
con Poiu,gL ~ i',, ~, ,i,or, WAS that
~. oI'il ~ ,o,''o' and bonncorrobo.
W ,'' .o.,ii ,,l, ,,or,;t NJ a. local copyic-
, - oo5 DE- Jj.di..oJ tbe case. Ue-ue-
-o'.od w. Mr. Rodv "a. .nncrvisor of
no tnildings MAT ne bavetbe coal-house
1a,i.,I Lcrdoftor and m fine ianitor that
NV leon bstter watch and moi allow coal
TO be stolen right under his nose every
morning as 10 hau Dcen lot tuIec Ncch7