The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-30
s1REETDANcER Was FINED
Annie Executed the HuIa-HuIa
and Was Arrested.
FELL A VICTIM TO CRAPS
POindexter Lost All His Money. Then
Informed the Police, and In Court
Was Also Made TO Suffer With the
Boy He Had ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Waite Prosecufes IA Dist riot Clerk.

Judge Kimbaii looked down from his high
bench this morning when police court
opened on dock crowded with an una sual
variety OF prisoners. In one corner sat a
pretty white woman. neatly dressed, with
her face shrouded with Il white veil, and
next to her another woman Of the streets.
with tattered clothes, and no veil to hide
the traces of dissipation In her face. Along
down the line We're arrayed other WOMEN OF
color and wickedness. and on the opposite
side Of the dock. against the rail, stood male
offenders OF all ages, colors and conditions.
Annie Chase, tough-looking colored girl
from Bloodfield's unholy precincts. was ar
raigned on a charge of disorderly conduct
and pleaded not guilty.
''This girl and a negro boy were ia ncing
on the street, your honor, said the officer,
land We're acting in a most indecent manner
when l arrested them
Judge. your honor, sah,' said Annie,
II had jus cum home from work. an dey
wuZ boy on our steps named Sammie
DIXON. Sainmie he grabbed me rOun' tie
wais' wild my hans benin me, an he made
me dance de 'hoOla-hoola.' l tol, him to
10 stop. cause my mother didn't low me
TO cut up i'll de street. but he wouldn't
'twcll de police cum up: den he run
SHOCKED THE JUDGE.
How old are your asked the judge.
Fourteen, goin' on fifteen.
"a girl your age doing that sort of thing
on the street, said the court. in a shocked
tone of voice. How long have you been
going with Samuel Dixon?''
Not so very long, judge"
"Ten dollars fine"
William Taylor, Il negro boy, whose only
shirt was was his dusky hide, was ar
raigned by Policemen Carson and Auldridge.
on a charge of disorderly conduct IA ggravated
by crap shooting. Lawyer Kicks appeared
for the defendant and u negro named
Poindexter was the prosecuting witness.
PoiBdexter explained that he had passed
through the alley and been enticed into
the game, with the mysteries of which
he was unfamiliar. He fingered under the
influence of the bones until all his money
went and then he began to think he had
not been given fair show, and went fol
the policemen. Taylor was the only one
who fell into the tolls.
After a good deal of evidence and cross
examination Judge Kimball fined Lawyer
Kicks client $40. and suggested that an
information be filed against Poindexter,
in order that he might also be fined.
John O'Connell, William Sullivan, James
Teuton, Effie n. Hoey and Michael Curtin,
all proprietors of alleged speakeasies in
Rupliville, near the Soldiers Home, were
arrdigDed on charges of maintaining unli-
censed bars, and through their lawyers,
Messrs. John A. Clarke and Joseph Shilling
ton. pleaded not guilty and demanded jury
trials. The cases were continued until to-
morrow.
PROSECUTED BY BICYCLIsT.
Marion McCauley, clerk in the property
clerks office in the District building, was
charged with reckless driving and collid-
ing with vehicles in the Capitol grounds.
Fred c. Waite, with whose bicycle McCauley
was alleged to have collided, was the pros.
ecuting witness.
After listening to testimony that showed
that McCauley had not run into the bicycle
until 1t was deliberately thrown In front
OF his horse by Waite In order to check
his progress Judge Kimball fined the de.
fendant $40.
Waite stated that he was riding into Eas
Capitol street, where excavations are nov
| in progress from the Capitol grounds aM
McCauley was driving toward the Capitol
He rode on untilhe saw there was not room