Evening journal., 1893-12-15

Negro Charles jackson Was Not the
Proper Complexion 20 Bring Mayor
Herbert Reward Of s5oO-Two Grip
Patients Become Partially Parai, zod.
Other Matters,
Special Correspondence Evening journal.
NEW CAsrLE, Dec 10 There was
lively discussion in Magistrate Janvier's
office early last evening, which came
very near resulting in punishment for
contempt Of court. The whole trouble
arose over the action Of Constable
Grandon Reed, Of st. Georges hundred,
in bringing to jail Harry Cox, good
looking young man employed as a driver
by Miller George l. Batten, of Pencader
hundred The constable is a powerful
mau. weighing fully 200 pounds, and yet
when be drove In from Batten's mills
with young Cox (who weighed only 140)
he had his prisoner In irons
Cox was arrested on chrage of as
sault ard Constable Reed brought him
up before Magistrate Janyier for a hear
ing The accused had been annoyed by
boys who go TO the Rogue's Harbor
school house q short distance from this
city and IN this hundred On Tuesday
the boys became proiane in their mock
ing and guying, and Cox allowed his
angry passions 70 rise He rushed into
the crowd Of boys and the biggest one,
John Soone, de6ed him to strike Cox
used the butt Of bis whip and broke the
whip In three places in his anger Then
he used his fst Scone survived but
was not flo 70 sit in photographers
chair when brought up TO testify against
his assaiant
Cox admitted the assault but declared
lie had been provoked beyond all human
endurance Magistrate Janvier said he
would have 20 hold him in $500 bail for
court
I'm 90 his bail, Mr. Justice" said ex-
Treasurer william Herbert, who had
never saen Cox before but whose indig
nation had been aroused at seeing the
youDg man brought go jain in irons "And
I'D be ashamed OF myseif.ii was that big
constable for bringing that boy up here
In irons, and on charge of assault
Toe"
Then the constable hit back He said
he had legal right 70 do what he had
done and that he was rnnningino risks
either OF personal injuries or OF losing
his prisoner.
Mr.. Herbert replied "Why brought
prisoner 000 miles without an iron
upon him, and q murderer, too. The
idea of You bringing that boy. on a charge
of simple assault, shacgled, for a ride Of
few miles I'd be- ashamed
Then the subject was taken up among
the twenty spectators and some of the
farmers agreed with Mr.. Herbert that it
was a shame while some Of them
argued that he had done right The
constable referred to the murder iof
Constable Davidson while bringing aman
up to jail from Delaware City, and for
which the man, Ward, was afterward
caught and hanged in the jail yard here
IL has long been the custom for con-
stables to bring their prisoners 10 jail,
IA fact, ever since the murder referred TO
yesterday tied and bound IN an sorts of
ways Plough h0es, binding twine,
handouts, leg irons or chains are used to
make the prisoner secure aud harmless
These wrappings are usually taken of in
front Of the jail
His Mouth Locked with a Paddock.
The sight of a boy trotting to q
jewellers with his mouth locked with a
paddock so that he could neither open
nor close IL, is unusual but was noticed
here yesterday. George McKnitt, OF
Orange or Third street. was toying with
very small paddock which he had found
and, boylike tried to open it with his
teeth. His fingers slipped aud the
tongue Of the paddock ran through an
opening between two front teeth at the
the gums. and locked. McKnitt pre-
tended TO be lighting a cigar with both
hands as he hurried down the street to
Jeweller Hanfs store Here the lock
was taken out.
He Wasn't Black Enough. yWB
County Detective Gallagher. Of Cam
den, and Lieutenant Smith, Of the Police
Department, arrived in this city at 9
o'clock last evening, for the purpose OF