Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-02
A Little One In It's Mothers Arms
The Usual ORenses Charged-The
Fines and Sentences.

house.
When the license inspectors had given
Tense. and Mrs. Sproessers son made a
wholesale denial of the charge.
I'VE have regular boarders." he said.
Don't you furnish transients?'
mo, sir. We have six regular boarders
and that's all the business of the kind We
do"
Suppose L were to- go there and ask for
a meal" said the judge, could get it?"
mo. sir" answered the young man: but
you could help yourself to free lunch If
you bought a beer"
Then 1 wouldn't help myself to free
LUNCH" the judge remarked.
The case went over for additional proof.
Disorderiy Conduct.
Eight residents of Twining City were in
court to listen to the evidence in the case
OF Otto Buckholtz, charged with disorderly
conduct
He denied the charge of disorderly con-
duct, and said, II called them monkeys"
And don't you call that disorderly con-
duct?"
mo. sir; because they acted like mon
keys"
Five dollars
admitted that he had permitted a boy to
play in his room. But he asked the boy his
age, and he said he was twenty-one years.
-, i did not doubt his age" said Eckloff,
any trouble"
Then" said the court, "he is going down
the hill very fast. and that's Just what this
law Is intended to prevent"
A fine of $40 was imposed.
He Got Mad.
When the name Levi Pennifield was called
a young man wearing a pair of gold
trimmed eyeglasses appeared at the rail,
and Daniel Bruce, a Water street black
smith, appeared and told how he fooled
Levi yesterday.
Levi came in the shop yesterday and
commenced fooling," said the blacksmith,
and l told him to stop it or 1 would have
him arrested. He thought 1 didn't mean
what l said. but did,
Was the man loud or profane?" the
court asked.
Yes. sir" answered the blacksmith; "he
used bad language and was loud"
Loud enough to be heard on the street?'
Yes, SIR
The blacksmith said that the intruder
was under the influence of LIQUOR and he
asked for money for another drink
Ihats wrong" said the prisoner II
alon ask Tor money for liquor, because 1
mad money in my pocket. We were fool
ihs' ana Wnen got the better of Mr.. Bruce
he got mad
Five dollars"
William Douglass. fifteen-year-old col
ored boy. who lives in Anacostia, was in
d n
little red-haired boy named Horace shan
non yesterday. and a policeman arrested
MIN because the stone broke Charles So
per'S IS bay window
Horace admitted that he called na,,as Of
The colored boy, and told of his having
thrown the stone which ended so dis.
astrously.
He made me done II said tba ro,,,,,
boy. ''-''
How did he make you do it?"
he called me Names"
How old are you?"
Fifteen years"
Then you are too old to throw stones.
Five dollars" S'
Guilty" was the response of NcFall
Bowen, against whom there was a charge
CT disorderly conduct.
I've been out of work all the winter"
he said. land about two weeks ago went
to work. Yesterday I happened to get
Not happened to get drunk" said the
judge. That's not the word to use. You
got drunk deliberately"
Well" resumed the prisoner, "as was
going to say. if your honor will trust me
until Saturday I'll pay the fine"
Eve are not trusting many people now"
said the judge, but if you can pay the
fine today and can get an officer to vouch
for you I'll let you co.
TN !. have to earn the money before can
pay It,, said the prisoner. Il hope your
honor will let me go this time, as 1 have
to support my aged mother" I
You should have thought of your mother
before you got drunk" said Judge KimbaIl.
Il know should have done So" said the
prisoner, land I'm sorry I didn't"
An officer was called upon to say good
word for the prisoner, but all he would say
was that he is drunk most of his time.
the usual fine was paid and the prisoner
stepped back.
William Payne and Della Edelin,, a col
ored couple appeared. and answered
guilty when arraigned on charge of
Five dollars each.' said the court
Back Agnin.
A young colored man named Bernard
Rose was in the line as a vagrant, and it
was not his first appearance.
I'm guilty of being there" was his an
swer when arraigned.
He meant that he was at his uncle's
house. where he is not wanted.
Last week he was in court, and the Judge
took his personal bonds to keep away
from his uncle's.
Bernard seemed under the impression
that his uncle was bound to support him
while he attended school.
He was given thirty days.
Frank Maryman, a young man who lives
IN East Washington, admitted that he had
violated the disorderly conduct law and
was fined s. or fifteen days.
charged with being a suspicious person
because he was found under alleged sus-
picious circumstances at 4:30 am.
I'm guilty of being inside the gate"
was the prisoners plea.
Policeman Herbert told of his arrest
and the prisoner tried to explain that he
was calling to see friend at the place.
He admitted, however, that the man for
whom he was looking did not stop at that
posed.