The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-31
JUSTICE JOINS COURT.
The Summer Exodus Has Caused Falling
OF in Attendance.

The summer season with It's almost UMPIRE
cedented exodus to watering places is having a
most depressing effect upon the Police Court.
| No train now departs, nor does any boat cast
of her moOrings, but bears away from the
| city numbers of colored persons who take up
their residence at the seaside or the pleasant
mountain resorts.
The saubrious breezes that charmed the
Africa district. in Jackson ward a few
weeks ago. now play among the dandellons
unheeded. and bear no longer at eyentide the
sweet refrains of Old Black Joe" or Darl-
ing Chloe" The evenly sliced Watermelon on
the market stand remains untouched by
human hands and becomes the easy victim
of the progressive and busy fly. The chicken,
now unmOlested, has come from the top the
summer kitchen and roOsts with impunity on
the lowest board of the grape arbOr. Ii is
estimated that about 1000 Of the quick NOV
ing colored population are now summerlng
at all of the resorts from Newport TO the
White Sulphur. and yet tho demand for wait
ers and chambermaids has not been fully
supplied.
II was said that the colored lawyers, Jack
son and Randolph. are really getting rusty on
law points and that Jacksons clarion voice is
growing weak from disuse but this is not
true. Giles is too sharp for that. True the
rafters of the Police Court have not been
shaken by him for some time. but he keeps in
practice. | WAS at the corner OF Broad and
Sixth streets yesterday afternoon when /
heard a rumbling like the distant thunder.
Louder and still louder IL grew, people began
to gather about the little frame Office on Sixth
street and | found the crowd growing about
the law Office Of Jackson. The opening Of the
door solved the mystery. The Office boy
WAS in the corner: his face was n study
in brown" and indicated the terrible ordeal
through which he was passing. Jackson in
his shirt-sleeves Was keeping his hand in"
by rehearsng q speech to be used in the pros
ecution of Sherman Fountain for murder. and
the poor quivering boy seemed already to
stand under the shadow Of the gallows
Thomas Fox alias ID. Grunner. James
Haley, George Clark. Henry Weaver. John
Kelley and James Dosson. the six men who
were arrested yesterday as suspicious charac-
ters and who were found TO have the stolen
goods from Farrnville II their possession,
were arragned before Justice Crutchheld
Chief-of-Police Il. ID. Miller, Of Farmville
was On hand. and positively identified one Of
the men They we're all taken back to Farm
vile yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Charles Burns was charged with threaten
ing to strike Annie GatewoOd with an axe
He was sent 10 Jail for thirty days IN default
OF 800 security.
William Buster was fined $3.50 for fighting
in the streets
William Carter, charged with being va
grant and suspicious character, was sent 10
Jail for sixty days.
William Parker and f. B. Ford were each
fined S2 for being drunk.
w. A. Green and Roger Kyle, the two col
ored boys who were charged with shooting
Peter Reed. were in the Police Court yester-
day morning. The boys, who were each about
twelve or fourteen years # age, were exceed
ingly bright and intelligent lads. and gave
clear and concise statement Of the affair
Their testimony showed that Reed took the
rifle from them. and, holding it by the barrel,
struck the stock against tree, it
was discharged and the ball entered
his body. James Banks swore that Reed
was shot by the boys at a distance Of
twenty-five or thirty yards. The powder stains
on his vest and which had even gone through
to the shirt were conclusive evidence that the
rifle was discharged at close range. The boys
were discharged