Evening star., 1893-07-31
THE POLICE COURT.
Seventy-6ve Prisoners Presented
Themselves to Get Justice.

SCvGAty.uVc PRISONERS FFe0e0ee0
Themselves to Get Justice.
Two colored men with buckets Of lime
and brushes were engaged In putting a
white coating on the walls of the corridor
Of the Police Court leading to the cells
this morning and the disinfectant made
the air several degrees better than it would
otherwise have been. The walls in the
cells had also received a white coating.
and although there were seventy-ive pris-
oners locked up the addition of a cell for
females made more room for the men and
tnere was not as much suffering from the
neat as there had been during previous
weeks when all the prisoners had to oc-
cupy the three small cells.
FiIteen OF the prisoners were females and
a a.a large majority Of the entire number ap-
Sion Of minor offenses.
Justice A. 8. Taylor presided in Judge
~ MimDaI @ court and listened to the tales
In many Of the cases liquor was the cause
Of the trouble. while in others suspicious
circumstances attended the arrest
Rose TaylOr's Profanity.
Policeman Keleher told Judge Taylor
that Rose Taylor. a colored girl. swore
the roof of the police station. Rose en-
gagged in fight in Lingers alley" said
the officer. used profane and boisterous
language on the street. ''and because we
wouldn't give her SNUFF in the station
house house she cursed the roof of the station
Rose was fined s.. or twenty-four days.
NOT guilty, responded a colored man
named George Brown. who was arraigned
for being in a disorderly crowd. eo
was In the crowd" he said. "but I
,ne The snOnsi.s 1ayais crap. was only watch
Il didn't see him shooting Gran" said
ins @ resi for sis nus tnrn guess he was only walt
Five dollars or fifteen days."
q, am aotser and Nora Brown, arrested
a for an nra alleged disorderly house. were tried
Pretesred P0Mesne Against inst them was vagupmcy.
,n vnem, out 1t was shown that Totter
GharssI Gau al and she was discharged. Nora
IN Bonds fSs or or fifteen days was tn. sentence
ooy, who was found lettering about the
S'rgg,s aTbis az b all hours of the night.
papers abSut S Is "a. neewsboy e~i,t and he sells
repo., 1,1 said Policeman Harlow Of a YOUTH
!ui prisoner named Joshua Smith Hes
ally SS tSrswSy Goy !tons svsr say say He is contnu
uoesnt care for me because he knows I
Sant iH catch him. Yesterday ne was fight
some boys to catch him for me he threat
ensu 70 XIII them when he got out
lie was released with warming.
Allowed to Go.
FRANK Williams. young man who was
round under suspicious circumstances, told
the judge that he was broke and that II
given a chance he would leave the city and
go home. II have been In Virginia." he
salo' lo0King after race horses / went as
@ aar as Clifton Forge and charlottesville
anI now my money Is all gone"
= Harrison Ellis and George Niles. charged
with %,'rn occupying the sidewalk for sleeping
friends pay IS each for them they will
sleep on the farm for two weeks.
wa a young young man nan named William H. Byron
lng rengious meeting in a tent near 10th
ana n streets. Policeman Caughy it ap-
der the idea that the meeting was dis.
turped, for a number of persons interested |
N "a tne meeting appeared in the young mans |
Judge Taylor said that religious meet |
ngs OF all kinds would be protected against |
aasorderiy persons: but in this case the |
ne would therefore dismiss the case.
a young man named Harry Strattoa was |
iaHed ia on a charge Of disorderly conduct |
charged against him was that ne told Po- |
iceman Caughy that Byron had not done |
y .ns.niihg ats.ni and the court returned his col
Il don't use no flame language" said
josephine Simpson, a colored girl But |
John Williams was sent down for ninety
lays as vagrant
The Woman Got or.
A colored couple James Dent and Har-
let Dent his wife. appeared on a charge
u disorderly conduct. and the evidence was
nat they were noisy. and that the hus-
,and had been drinking.
don't think the woman's responsible"
aid colored woman. who appeared as a |
witness in the case
Why not?'' asked the court.
Because she's been in st. AIMS Asylum
md just got OUT"
st. AIMS infant asylumr'
Yes. SIR"
She's a pretty large infant" said the
udge. Five dollars each"
Sanitary officer Frank appeared in court
few minutes later and said the woman
vas away from St. Elizabeth's asylum on
visit, and the Judge then discharged her
This case ended the first batch Of prison.
rs. and another lot of the same kind Gp-
,eared and were dealt with according to