Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-23


WEATHER PRoBABILITIEs.-For this
section fair, followed by threatening weather ;
probably showers tuesday afternoon ar evel-
iug; .rmer; generally southerly winds
POSING AS AN INFoRMER.-On Satur-
day night George Chichester was
brought before the Mayor on the charge
of stealing ten dollar bill from Richard
Burnett. The latter stated that ne had
marked the note and had entered 8
saloon and placed it on the counter
when Chichester picked it up and start.
ed out of the house; that he ordered
him TO return and put the money back
on the counter, but Chichester replied
that he was only going into the yard.
Burnett, however, protested, but upon
Chichester making the same reply the
former replied well" This was Bur
nett's first statement, but upon being
cross-ouestioned and asked it his
reply "Wel," signifed On acqui-
essence on his part, he went over his
story agai, and materially altered the
latter part of it. Chichester didn't re-
turn, but went to Sefer Blouse's saloon
and made small purchase and re-
ceived the change from the bill. Later
he was arrested. Considering the fact
that the two men are often in the Police
Court on one charge or another, some
grave and others trivial, there seemed
TO be something in the case hard for
the court to penetrate. The fact that
Burnett had so carefully marked the
note seemed suggestive, and it looked
as though an idea was entertained that
Blouse should be made to return the
bill and lose the change he had given.
Another theory was that there was
some reason for getting Chichester in
Jail. The note was produced and Bur
nett Immediately recognized it. Six
dollars and few cents were taken
from Chichester, and he was
fined So, and the money found
on him returned to Burnett. The lat
ter, as is generally the case when he is
a party to cause at the station house,
undertook to run the court" and was
warned that if he persisted in his dis
orderly conduct he would be fined.
He apologized in one breath and actt d
contemptuously in the next, when he
was hustled into the dock and fined
$3.50. Chichester. while at the station
house, seemed to be bubbling over to
unbosom himself in regard to the al
legged crookedness of some of his former
acouaintances and at his suggestion
he was brought before the Mayor who
duly swore him and wrote out what he
deposed, after which it was read to him
and he attested its truth by kissing the
Bible. Chichester signed the affidavit,
as did Captain Webster, Lieutenant
Smith and Policemen Smith and Akin
son. Chichester began by declaring
that the reason Burnett put up job in
order to have him arrested was the fact
that he had refused to be party to the
robbery of a pensioner on Saturday;
also that Burnett's place was dive, a
fence for stolen property and roost
where men met and manufactured evil
dence in order to screen thieves; that
deponent had been taken in there and
offered money to go on the stand and
perlure himself in the case of the Com
anonwealth VS.. Harry Poss and Thomas
Henry, indicted for highway robbery in
that he saw Alexander McClintock in
Burnett's saloon at six O'Clock on the
evening the two men are charged with
having robbed him near Edsall's station;
also that McClintock left the pantaloons
found behind the door there, &C., sc.
These garments, it will be remembered,
were in the possession of Henry when
the officers entered and were thrown
behind the door. Mrs. Burnett told al
officer what she saw, and the object of
Burnett and others, it seems, is now to
suborn witnesses to swear that Nc
Clintock left the trousers there.
Chichester also told Of being present
when VIM. Arlington, who is now
out on bail, charged with picking
the pocket of a drunken man, and
James Sullivan, an alleged rail
road thief, now serving term in jail
for vagrancy, sold Burnett four gallons
of whisky which had been stolen the
previous night from Mr.. Thomas
Downey's saloon. He also averred that
Burnett's house was now stored with
goods which he believed to be part of
the plumber secured in various raids
made by Alexandria crooks. Chiches
ter further swore that on several oc-
casions Burnett offered him SO to set
fire to VIM Brawner's saloon, on the
opposite corner. Chichester positively
denies that he ever had part or let in
the depredations of the gang nor has he
been In collusion with them. The
law abiding people think the time
has arrived when q spade should be
called spade, and if dives and dead
falls exist in and about this city they
should be known. While all naturally
sympathizs with the family connections
of the hayward young men who are
preying upon their fellow creatures, no
sensible person will undertake to con-
trovert the assumption that the time is
ripe for the obliteration of roosts which
are menace to the peace of the COM
munity, and which if allowed to exist
will eventually prove scenes of murder,
and the sooner the loafers about such
places and the defiers of law are dealt
with the better it will be for them and
their fellow-creatures
FIGHT IN SALooN.-Cott. Nelson
and James Doherty, who have recently
opened saloon on the corner of Royal
and Princess streets, had rough-and-