Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-11
BEFORE THE JUDGES
Gases Tried In the Police Court During
the Day.
The Sentences Given for Various Of
lenses and How They
Were Received.

vagrancy. Some were arrested for dis
orderly conduct, come for assaults and
come for other mindH violations of the pub
lie peace.
Among the first to line up to have their
cases passed upon were three colored girls
charged with vagrancy. According to the
story Of the policeman who made the ar
rest, they were haneers-on about the Sol
oiers' Home. and were women of evil life.
Lawyer Sillers made hard fight for them,
IN an EFFORT to prove that the evidence did
not sustain the charge. The girls said that
lney were on their way to Terra Gotta and
stopped on their way to rest in the vooda
near near the n Soldiers, Home. They denied that
tney were "vags," though one of them adj
mltted that she had been arrested three or
TOUT times for fighting. Lawyer Sillers'
cMent mad to give $50 bonds, while the
Jobn VIII WINS ae. OF on their personal bonds.
1o1h Wlinams, young colored man.
pIeaded guilty to "cursng and swearing"
ne was fined s. He said he only had Il.
a aah ne went down he would lose his
yop. IN view OF this fact, the Judge re-
auceo the fine to his limit He gave up all
ne mad Tor the privilege of being profane.
ana iert the court free man.
little Italian boy was then turned over
to the board Of children's guardians. II
appeared tnat his parents are in Pennsyl-
wanna, but the father has recently lost HIS
nHlos' and is unable to care for him He
mas been living with his brother in this
CITY, put the latter is also poor and no
longer In position to take care of him.
Janitor Under a Cloud.
A young mulatto girl named Annie Ellis
was then called to the dock. Last night a
little after II o'clock Policemen Gibson and
Holmes heard noise in the Central High
Scnooi and made an investigation, which
resulted In finding the Ellis girl in the fe-
male teachers room. man was there.
but he got away.
According to Annie's story, she was in
vlted to come into the building by George
Coleman, the colored janitor She did not
want to go. because it was SO late but she
was finally induced TO enter the building.
lnere was no evidence that Annie was a
vagrant, so Judge Kimball let her Co. but
he said that Coleman was not a fit man to
be servant of the District and suggested
that the whole matter ought to be called to
the attention of the Commissioners
George E. Burrill, a colored driver for an
Anacostia grocer, was charged with Dump
ing some ashes in Buchanan street Po-
liceman Reagan testified that at the end Of
the street there is a ravine twenty feet
deep, which has long been used for Dump
ing purposes. In his opinion the place
ought to be used for dumping as it would
end in filling up the hollow.
Inspector Beaumont stated that the Com
mfssioners had refused to make it a public
dumping ground and 1t is a decided nuisance.
This was iE the nature of a test case.
made at the request of the health office
ard the Judge took the boys personal bonds.
and said that in his opinion a placard
ought to be put up forbidding dumping at
that point
Long Spree.
Charles Dickerson, an elderly white man,
for whom the cup has too much charm, was
Up as vag. The policeman stated that he
had been on long spree, which lasted for
eight days, and ended up last night in an
attack Of deliri I'm tremens. He was given
ten days, with the understanding that he
would be sent to the hospital until he
straightens out.
Henry Thornton was charged with loud
and boisterous behavior outside Of colored
church, where an entertainment was in
progress. The affair was not a very bad
one anyhow, and the Judge put some re-
liarce on Henry's statement that he never
uses bad language, and dismissed the case.
Game of Pool.
Last evening Edward Gibson and John
Jennings had a game of pool for cents q
SIDE That started the trouble which came
es silly, as there had been some beer in the
crowd. The result was that Gibson got hit
on the head with a pool cue and received
such bad cut that he had to go to the
Emergency Hospital to have 1t sewed up.
Jennings stated that he was en- e:ipioye IN
the shop where the game was played, and
not a player. Gibson was too drunk to
have known who hit him. A half dozen
colored boys who were in the pool shop,
testified that Jennings was not the man
who struck the blow, and the case against
him was dismissed.
Case Dismissed.
Stanton Taylor. a young white boy, was
charged with indecent exposure, and also
with the use of very improper language.
The complaining witness was a white
woman named Rosie ROBBIE. She stated
that Taylor came to her house last Tues
day. and because she would not let him in
he ''blackguarded her scandalous," and also
acted in a most indecent manner.
Are you married woman" asked Tay.
lcr's lawyer.
Yes, 1 am" o.;
Where were you married?"
AT newspaper Office"
Were you married by reporter"
mo, think it was by a preacher"
The woman admitted that she had lived
with ROBBIE for considerable length Of
time before she was married to him. and
that she went with him to the Times office
fer the purpose Of reading the Edmunda
act.
When Taylor took the stand he gave an
entirely different story of the trouble, and
gave the Robes such a bad name that the
charge against him looked very fishy and
Judge Kimball dismissed the case without
hearing any further witnesses.
Getting Religion.
There are various ways of getting 70.
AieioH' oue "hSh IL pesis ny Stealing
Bible, some one is likely to get in trouble
This time this was certainly true, for SAM
Cook stole copy of the book from Den>
mis- Rankin both colored and Sam landed
in the dock at the Police Court this morn.
ing. Judge Kimball heard the evidence,
which was dead agin" Sam, and imposed
fine of. S.
James Hall, a young white man, was ar.
rested last evening for stealing doormat
from 1916 L street. 1t was only worth fifty
cents. Before Judge Kimball today he
denied that he took the mat. but the evil
dence against him was too strong, and the
mat will cost him IS before he is through.
Pious Counting.
From the Argonaut.
The Rev John Brown Of Haddington, the
author of the ''Selfinterpreting Bible" was
a man of singular bashfulness. His court
shin lasted seven years. Six and a half