Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-05
A LIGHT DOCKET,
The Gases That Were Brought Today
to the Attention of Judge Miller.

The Gases That Were Brought Today
TO the Attention of Judge Miller.
Judge Miller had a small audience in the
Police Court today and the number of pris-
oners was still smaller
John Miller. a white man. was charged
with an assault on Mary NJ. Smith There
was some difficulty, during which Mr.. Mil
Ter entered Mrs. Smiths room after her
boy, who jumped from the window In the
quarrel 1t Is alleged Miller struck her. or
hcer ID. j. Lynch testified that he went to
the house to serve a warrant on Mrs
smiths son and she promised to have him
here this morning, but he had not been
away long before he heard cries. and going
back, Mrs. Smith was in the act of getting
up and said that Miller had struck her.
The defendant Acknowledged going for the
boy to talk to him when he Jumped from
the window, but he denied positively that
he had struck her. Mrs. Miller denied that
Mrs. Smith was knocked down. and Mrs
Smiths boy had assaulted her. The boy
was then charged with an assault on Mrs
Miller by raising a Stat to her The witness
stated that he raised the slat to protect his
mothers Mrs. Smith said she would leave
the house on Monday. The court said that
this was a woman's quarrel in which the
pos tOOh part, anu as lney COQl0 not i've
under one roof one should leave There
should be peace or the one who broke ii
would go to jail and he held each of them,
Miller and the boy. to bonds to keep the
peace.
sault en- his wife, who testified also to
threats, but also said that she believed that
his mind was affected. DIR. Frederick tee
titled that he was extremely nervous and
hA hQd hat dnt,1f hot 6Ex fva-p
but he believed with proper treatment he
would recover. The unfortunate man,
whose wife had gone to him, then had a
paroxysm in the dock, but was composed
enough in a short time to be led out. The
case was certified to the Secretary OF the
Interior for admission of the man to the
insane asylum.
John H. Henderson, a colored clerk of
the pension and record division of the War
Department was charged with obtaining
SS4.33 of w. W. Wright by means of a forg-
ed pay order in the name of w. S. Yeat-
man, disbursing clerk of the War Depart
ment The arrest was made by Detectives
Proctor and Lacy. Mr.. Wright testified to
the transaction and when the note was due
letter was received. purporting to be
signed by Mr.. Yeatman, stating that the
money would be paid at a certain time.
Mr.. Yeatman pronounced the signatures to
be forgeries.
Mr. Darlington stated that he had had no
opportunity to confer with his client and
asked that the case go over.
The court said that Henderson was before
him over a year ago on a similar charge.
but he had dismissed him. He continued
the case until tomorrow.
John Johnson was tried for an assault On
his sister, Alice Johnson, and sent to Jail
for thirty days.
Mary j. Ross. colored girl. for the lar
ceny of a coat and dresses from Briie
Johnson The latter claimed that she had
just borrowed them. and sent them back.
Detective Lacey stated that her mother de-
sired to keep Mary out of bad company,
and the court suspended sentence, warning
her that the crook of finger in the
wrong direction would carry her to Jail.
Carrie Active. a colored servant employ
ed by W. w. Emerich, arrested by Detec-
tive Burrows, was charged with the lar
ceny of SIS from her employers house in
GEORGETOWN. The officer testified to the
money being found in a tomato can, and
she stated that the money had been placed
there by her. for she was saving up TO get
set of furniture. The case was sent TO
the grand jury, bonds being fixed at $500.