Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-10

morning was that of john Carroll, an ell
derby colored man, who said that it was his
| first appearance there a prisoner Po-
liceman Farquhsr, who made the arrest
last evering. stated that John was very
drunk and creating a disturbance.
Did he curse?" asked the judge of the
policen an.
'Sir?
WAS he profane?"
what. sir?'
From which it developed that Policeman
Farquhar is rather hard of hearing. Con-
sequently, when he said that he could hear
Johns racket for more than square. the
judge remarked that the noise must have
! been very loud indeed.
John admitted that he was pretty noisy,
but said that he was having little row
with his wife, and spoke loud so as to bring
her to a realizing sense of her iniquities.
Judge kimball told him that hereafter
when they have family row they must
make 1t a point to be mere quiet about it.
Then Judge Kfmball let him go on his per-
sonal bonds.
Sons of the Sun.
The next in line were three Greeks or
Italians sons of some other sunny cline.
They sell fruit for living, and were
rested for obstructing the street with their
push carts, the same old offense.>
Two dollars" said the judge, 1.-The usual
fine"
But the policeman made statement, in
which he showed that their offenSe was
more aggravated than usual
Then make it three dollars" said the
judge.
Charles Thomas. colored, was charged
with making an assault on Martha E.
Thomas. He pleaded guilty but Martha
was not on hand to prosecute. and Charles
was given back seat. Martha put In an
appearance in few minutes, however, and
testified that her husband was calling on
another lady, and when she went for him
he came out and beat her in way that
no loving husband should beat his wife.
Charles told the judge that his wife had
he did was to protect himself as best he
could from her vicious blows. Now, Charles
is very much larger than his wife, and his
excuse was sufficient to convict him. 1t
was $40 or term in jail.
Love Me, Love My Dog.
Mary Johnson called to answer to
charge of assault on Alice Herman, also
colored. Mary said that her name was
Chase. not Johnson, thinking to get off in
that way, but the judge got around that
by telling Clerk Potts to insert an alias
in the information. The trouble was occa-
stoned by some slurring remarks that Alice
had made about Mary's dog, which is a
yellow dog and of no particular account
anyhow. But Judge Kimball did not think
that was a sufficient cause for a fight and
so he fined Mary s..
George Riggs, young colored man, found
three informations resting against his name
when he appeared in the dock. One was
for disorderly conduct last month. and two
were for assault committed since. 1t took
five colored mel and two colored women to
tell all the incidents in all the cases. The
flrst witness, whose face was but little
lighter than the strips of black court
plaster with which it was covered, testified
that Riggs had hit him with pint ticker
A Ind L, h.,1l
in surprised tone of voice.
'Yassir."
He means pint beer bottle" said the
policeman who made the arrest.
We'll. said the judge, that's a new one
to me-"
The balance of evidence was against
Riggs, and altogether he got three months
IN jail and hnes aggregating SIS.
Large Salary.
VIM. Alexander. a colored dude. dressed
too sweetly for anything. held a stylish
brown summer derby in one hand and a
heavy shepherds crook cane in the other as
he stood up to plead to the charge of as
sault on Eta Ball Eta did not answer
ball continued the case until tomorrow.
"Judgeronner," said Willie, cant 1 be
tried today? While this is on I am losing
my salary of five dollars a day"
The court officials smiled, for that is a
big salary for colored boy in hard times
He is out on s. collateral, and the judge
ted MIN he might forfeit that, If he want
ed to. William did not see II in that light
however. and SAID that he would be back
tomorrow strong in the confidence of his in
nocence
Sam Brown, a tough looking colored boy
was charged with carrying concealed wea-
pc ms. and also with making assault on
John H. Taylor. The chief witness against
Brown was razor. 1t was a very vicious
looking weapon, for the handle such as
razors usually have when used for shaving
was missing. The blade, instead, was fas-
tened to firm handle, so that it was more
like a shoemakers' knife, and manifestly
intended for cutting purposes.
Taylor testified that Brown came into the
stable where he was at work, smoking
cigarette. He told him that the boss did
not allow smoking in the stable. Then came
the fight, in which Taylor got several bad
cuts from the razor.
For the assault case Judge kimball sent
Brown to Jail for eleven months and twen-
ty-nine days. Then Brown will have to
serve four months more for carrying
razor The razor will be destroyed.
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