The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-04
JUSTICE JOHNS COURT.
Old General Humidity was the of1osr of
the Day-The Cases

the Day-The Cases
A hot, close and stufy morning and old
/ General Humidity was the officer Of the day.
! The sinners below were waited up in one
/ two-three order. and His Honor seized the
crank Of the mill Of justice and ground-out
/ sentences heavy and light, making the
t hearts Of the culprits drop with a dull thud
/ ike a chunk OF les in an area way or soar
| high like a county fair balloOnatc.
Edward Curtis was FIRST charged with
soliciting aims on the street, but there was
/ no case IN it. Edward also had a razor on
/ his person. and not being a barber had
difficulty IN making the Court believe twas
necessary 70 carry It. So Eddie goes up 70
! the hastings court.
Benjamin johnson (colored) had evil
| IDENTIFY never heard Of Chesterfield. and for
| got also that Miss Justice Is not a. blind as
she painters make her. for lie INDUCED IN
language that cannot prlnttoWaTds one Miss
/ Mary Burnett. This not being enough. he
| struck the fair one also. SO the police did
/ the old sexton act and gathered him in. The
case was continued.
Nike Sullivan evidently fanoled he was
! the great and only John L.. Tor he let hy
his right IN the classic language of the
/ prize ring. at Charles Z. Bosser. and
Charlie went TO grass. The blue-coated
| representative OF law and order scooped
/ him, and Michael was dismissed with one OF
His honors paternal warnings.
The case Of James Sutherland and James
| Sweeney. charged with fighting was con-
| tinued till the 18th of August for Mr.
Sweeney was so badly bruised battered aud
bunged-up generally that he could not come
10 time.
There was also charge against James
| Sutherland for beating Sweeney with a
stick, which was also continued. ID seems
that there had been an old feud between
interests. and when they came tOgetherthe
came with a clash and crash and in a bust
ness-like way with result aforementioned.
Mary Scott (colored) was escorted 20 the
bar TO answer the charge OF parading the
thoroughfares with her sren-like ways.
This cost her the regular S2.50 and costs.
j. Al. Fades was charged with allowing
the soothing influence OF the liquid Of
/ Gambrlnus 10 permeate, percolate and
penetrate his internal economy 10 such
extent that he slumbered peacefully in the
street. Not coming 20 the scratch when
his name was called the lasso Of the law,
IN shape of an attachment, will be flung at
him.
There must have been something partcu-
larly soothing in beer yesterday, for Willie
S. Moody (colored) filed up and sank TO
slumber in the same way aud at his home
they sweetly sang. "Oh. Willie, We Have
Missed You" till little Willie was found be-
fore the stern gaze OF the Police Justice
and diyed into his pockets for q and costs
Rush Perrin gathered up a rock and with
/ il struck Elijah JOhnsOn-at least the war
rant said so: but il was not clearly proven,
and Mr. Perrin was told to "ruGb," and he
( rushed.
John Oglesby (colored) was sent to the
| hustiugs court for stealing sundry article
| from the Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany.
Willie Ann Adams (colored) wished TO 90
20 housekeeping and thought she could peat
even the bargain counters and be one ahead
OF the selling out-at-cost people by taxing
certain bed linen and crockery from the
same company. But Officer TomlinsOn
stopped her little game, and Willie Ann Will
60 70 the hustings court.
Charles Ross. who says be will ask the
Legislature 10 change his name, being tired
of having folks FIRE the old questions about
Rypsies stealing him at him, gave up the
stereotyped g and costs for a plain drunk.
Richard Harper (cOlOred) took in his
hand buggy whip and with 1t proceeded
10 chastise one Charles Nolan. Charlie
naturally objected 20 this and objected IN
vigorous manner, then, having Dick arrest
ed he was required 10 give up the old
amount-S2.5 so and costs.
J. b. Crump paid into tho city exchequer
the usual tariff fee for an unadorned
booze namely, q and costs.
| John Jasper, at the calling of whose name
the court officers gathered themselves To-
gether. and the reporters seized with fresh
interest their pencils, expecting 70 see the
venerable cOlOred astronomical exhOrter,
him of de-sun-do-movo fame. proved 10 DO
very different person indeed, and enriched
the cofors of Richmond city by paying SO
and costs for beating Anna Edmunds.
/ William Williams .colOred) had the old,
old charge of drunkenness opposite hs
name. and q and costs were checked
| against him.
Emma Davis (oolored) burned with the
woman-right's bee in her bonnet, and see
ing 80 many OF the sterner sex INDUCING IN
| the pleasures of the flowing bowl yearned
10 do likewise and did so. Oihcer Hackett
| saw her and humminR softly the tender
| lyric Of Who's Emma, Whoa Emma.
escorted her TO the lookup. Emma was
noisy, quite noisy, and for her little NATL
nee paid $3.50 and costs.
Albert Winston (colored) was disorderly
| on the streets and Officer Hughes yanked
/ him IN. Tears stood in Berties eyes ss he
yielded up the assessment IN such cases
$500 and costs
Paul Burley was charged with beating +.
| A. Bragg, but was sent home on paying the
costs. ~
George Woodson. charged with unlawfully
( earring a dog on the Capitol Square, was
/ told not 10 do so again. George Will refresh
/
| in Forest Hin Park in short order 50 he will
| remember TO carry not only no dogs on
the Square, but also no cats or camels, tigers
: or tadpoleg panthers or pum0s, or moles or
I mice or ANYTHING else in the way OF forbid
/ den animals in a block even OF that shady
/ retreat. II
| ~ iustice corner Mayo and Franklin, and as
/ the gentle breeze. heavy with mephitic
odors. from that still undated nuisance de-
scribed in yesterdays TINS. toated IN al
/ the windows. the reporter tshed out
clothes pin. adjusted it on his nose and kept
il there tin he finished his chronicle and
made his escape. Before long there
viii be an outbreak of fever or the like IN
/ this sweet-scented (Y) locality and then u
viii be too late Why not take walk
around this block, Messieurs the Board OF
Health and smell and see and suher this
once and then perhaps you will do some
/ thing about It,
THROWN orr And KILLED.