The evening times., 1895-09-09

Judge Scott this morning sent Joanna
@ QuilI down for sixty days for disorder
Saturday night aud imposed a $50 fine.
Officers MoNamee and Lynch found her
at her home on Massachusetts, avenue
drunk and boisterous. James Commons
was with her. Michael Sullivan aud Mrs.
Mary Williams were upstairs In the same
house and both drinking.
Counors pleaded guilty, the others all
had something to say. Joanna insisted
that she was no such woman as the Officers
and witnesses made out, drunken, worthless
and outrageously obscene. She worked for
q living.
Michael Sullivan said he had known Ms.
williams as q good neighbor six years ago.
He met her accidentiy near Joanna Quii's
Saturday. She appeared to be sick, and he
went with her to Quilts, intending 70 leave
her there TIL she was better, and then take
her home.
Just then the police came In and arrested
all of them.
DENIED THEIR CHARGES.
Mrs. williams said she was a respecta-
bic woman. keeping candy store at No.
II Eleventh street southeast. She had
taken two or three glasses of beer Satur-,
day night and 1t went to her head. A
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near, and she went with her till she could
recover.
Sullivan happened to be near when she
was taken sick. offered to help her and
went with her TO Quilts. She was never
In such place before.
Judge scott gave Mrs. williams a con-
tinuance to prov. her character, Sullivan
thirty days and $50 and Connors sixty
da vs. and $50.
Mr.. Dennis Riley told Judge Scott then
all about the trouble between Alfred
johnson and his mother at No. 1908
Twenty first street Saturday night He
said there were fifty people around the
house when he got to the place.
Mrs. Johnson W as in the street beg gging to
be let into her house He had known the
woman several years, and knew she owned
three houses there and told the Officers so.
They went i'll and arrested johnson and
Kate Sellers, 10th drunk.
He knew that johnson had several times
been drunk with Mary Sellers and driven his
mother out of the house. John H Magruder
and others had complained of the place to
the commissioners.
SHE WOULD DRINK.
Johnson in his own defense, said the
whole trouble was that his mother would
drink She was drinking Saturday morning
when he left for work He admitted he was
drinking Saturday night.
He had TO lock his mother up in one room
and himself in another that night to prevent
trouble He didn't know how she got into
the street.
Judge Scott gave him $40 for disorder.
Kate Sellers was called later, and her
story that She worked hard but would gel
on sprecs was corroborated by Policeman
Coffin, with the addition that she nearly
always got into Johnson's company en- such
occasions. She got $50 or thirty days.
DR.. Henry Woodbury., of Twenty-fourth
and L streets northwest, had three boys be
fore Judge Scott this morning i'll an effort
to break up disturbances on the corner near
his house. Daniel Stanton was the only
boy identified as among crowd there
last Friday night.
They shouted his name and made great
disorder. Officer O'Brien said much COM
plaint had been made there, but he knew
nothing against these boys. They were
hard working, orderly fellows, so far as he
knew.
HE WAS CRANKY.
Mr.. Stanton. the baker, father of Daniel,
said DR.. Woodbury. was SO cranky he didn't
like himself. He was always in a row with
somebody, and had moved from another
ncighborhoOd because neiShbOr had
carriage that passed up an alley near his
house.
DR. Woodbury. answered that Stanton
was ''out'' with him because he and two
other neighbors refused to consent to
Stanton putting in an engine Stanton
showed what sort of good citizen he was
by putting In an engine without permit
The doctor said he found after the engine
was put in that it didn't disturb him much
and made no trouble about il.
The boys went on the stand and said
they were coming home from church Fri
day night and went around Woodbury's
corner to see a girl who was dead for
whom one of them was to be pailEearer
As they came back they met three girls
on the corner and somehow their hats got
mixed up. :.
They went to the street lamp to see
which was which, and then DR.. Woodbury.
came along and peered into their faces.
AS there was no sufficient identified.
tion nf two of the boys and conflicting
evidence as 10 the other Judge Scott dis
missed them, with a warning not to be
taken on that corner again. Complaint
had been made TO the Commissioners Of
disorder there.
Joseph Talbot. Enoch Smith, James