The evening times., 1895-08-29
GRASS IS ONLY FORLO0ES
Lawyer Norment Found Il Out
When He Sat on II.
POLICE COURT DAILY GRIsT
Two Negroes Fined for Being in
MOb-Branch Wright Turns Up
Again and VIII Rest on the Farm.
Usual Procession Of Drunks and
Vags Before His Honor.

The cases in Judge Scott's court were
not out of the ordinary this morning. and
the usual run of ''vags'' and drunks l0oked
sleepily out of the pen at his honor.
George johnson and John Harris, two
color.d men, stepped up and faced his
honor upon the charge of disorderly con-
duct. According to the officers story.
last night, when near Seventh street and
Maine avenue, he ran into party of ab.'ut
twenty coiored people, who were very
much excited. They were running after q
man crying Lynch him!"
With difficulty the patrolman got the
man away from the crowd, and when Cum
veying him up the street the crowd stoned
the two and refuge had to be taken On a
car. Even then about dozen followed the
policeman and his prisoner. The culored
people were incensed at the action nf the
white man toward a party of cnlore5 girls.
No ole appeared against the man at the
stationhouse and he was released. The
officers then returned to the scene of the
attempted robbing, and recognizing Harris
and johnson as members of the mob,
arrested them. They were fined So each.
Henry Hardy, one of the citizens of the
ide-awake world, said he was guilty of
being drunk and disorderly and paid a fine
OF So. o.
Frank DonOhue is white man who don't
get drunk except about once in four
months, and then he gets dead drunk.
Yesterday he imbibed too freely uut on
the Bennins's road and proceeded to tear
pike and knock the record for fighting and
successive kDockouts of peaceable pedes-
trians higher than kite He was sober
this mornin: and a fine OF 81 was imposed,
which some friend paid for him.
Edward Jones asked aims of a travelling
salesman who was showing his goods in
the neignborhOoG of Fourteenth and X
streets Upon being refused money he fol-
lowed the seller of goods. Jones Is big,
burly white man, and the salesman became
frightened. He winked at policeman as
he passed, and Jones was taken into GUS
tody. Judge Scott gave him thirty days.
Richard B. Noment, lawyer, seventy
three years old, was arraigned in the police
court this morning on the charge of trespass-
ing on the parking. He was in Rollins
Park, near the corner of Twentieth street
and Pennsylvania avenue northwest, and
seeing no seats or benches wake da few feet
up on the bank, where the grass was entirely
worn off. He. was extremely tired, and
took off his coat and hung 1t up on q limb
and then sat on a branch near the ground.
Two Officers of the law saw the old gem
tleman resting there, and Immediately
confronted him with the enormity OF his Of
Tense Mr. .Norment is law yer ,andheasked
the policemen wherein he had offended.
This W rs too much, and Mr. Norment, gray
haired old man, was carried to the Third
precinct station-house in the patrol wagon.
The Judge took Mr.. Moments personal
bonds.
Branch Wright. an invetcrate drunkard,
was arraigned before Judge Scott on a
charge of vagrancy. He is a familiar police
court figure and has been there fully a
hundred times. He was released from the
workEouse yesterday after serving seventy
six days. No sooner did he gain freedom
than he proceeded TO load up. Mr.. Pugh
said that it would be a charity TO Wright
TO give him two sentences yearly OF six
months each. The man promised never to
drinl: another drop, but he has done this
before. and he has thirty days in the work
house TO enable him to prepare to keep
his resolution.
The personal bonds of Annie Williams,
arrested by Policeman John Mohl on
charge of vagrancy, were taken.
Jacob Moore, who is the proprietor OF q
small cemetery, was fined S25 for bury
ing the body of a still-born child without
a permit from the health officer Harriet
Brown. who was sent to procure the permit,
made 1, mistake between a burial permit
and the doctors certificate OF death. Moore
has been In the business thirty years, and
on this account 1t was held he ought to have
known better.