Evening journal., 1895-03-07
REMEDY BADLY NEEDED
Cases Which Bother the Mu-
nicipal Court Every bay.
A STOP SHOULD BE PUT TO THEM
They start From Petty ouarrsIs and the
Evidence Is seldom Sufficient to Con-
vict and the City Pays the Expense.
Three OF This Glass Tried To-day.

vict and the CITY Pays the Expense.
Three of This Glass Tried To-day.
A greater part of the time OF the
Municipal Court is spent In the trial OF
cases which amount to nothing and
where the evidence is insufficient to
convict
These cases are almost entirely where
the Israelite and color, 4 residents are
concerned and are genei i.'ly the outcome
Of petty quarrels, and confined TO the
lowest strata Of those races
The mistress OF one Afro American bas
words with another colored woman or her
man, and gets her face slapped She at
once seeks the Office Of the clerk OF the
court, and makes her story hard enough
TO secure a warrant. The offender is
arrested and host OF witnesses are
summoned
The day of trial comes off, and Il Is
shown that there were mitigating cir
cumstances warranting the Assault II
any was committed, and the case falls
through. The costs cannot In justice be
taxed on the defendant. the law does not
make provision for the placing OF It on
the prosecuting witness. so the city has
to stand IL. The judge and city solicitor
have studied the condition Of affairs
carefully but cannot seem to strike
remedy.
Three OF these cases cropped up In
court this morning. The frst was that
OF Andrew Young chsrged with assault
on Della Weboly Both are Mechanic
street Japs, ana the row occurred on
last Wednesday evening after dance
on Jones street Andrew was talking TO
his girl, Della Clipped In, words followed.
she cnrsed him and he slapped her face.
Dismissed
The second one was that Of Nellie
Myers, colored, assault on Lizzie Harris
This battle was pulled off last Friday
evening. Lizzie was passing No. III
Water street when Annie Johns called
her over and then pasted her In the nose
with brick. She was stunned for few
minutes and when she recovered found she
han been cut on the finger With knife
| AS Nellie had been heard to threaten to
cut her hoart out and bathe IN her gore,
Lizzie jumped TO the conclusion that she
was the cutter But she couldn't prove
1t and Nellie went free.
Arather singular condition OF affairs
was developed by the Judge In answer
TO questions by the cadi, Nellie said she
was between 16 and II years Of age, and
had room at No 109 East Water street.
which she occupied with her brother,
/ Walter.
The Judge Is too well posted to be
blinded by story Of 30 potent thlnness
ana called Walter He said that he
worked in the post Office and shared the
room with his sister. When asked
further, he said that Isaac Anderson
also lived there and was his sisters man.
1 The judge said 1t was a shame and dis
| grace aud scored Walter for permitting
such a condition OF affairs to exist.
The third case was that Of David
| Fisher, assault on Annie Lowe Both are
colored, and the row occurred on the
dump over the Market street bridge.
Annie referred to Fishers children In a
rather derogatory manner, aud as one OF
the witnesses stated, they mixed up
In a row, and hard words were ex-
changed when Annie "ran up into
his face" and Fisher pushed her away.
Then Billy Lowe, her man, took q hand !,
and other bad names we're exchanged,
after which they dismissed. The
judge did not think Fisher very much TO
blame, but decided that he should pay
the costs, which amounted TO about So.
He paid and went free.
James Hornett, Of Elkton, Md came
to town yesterday, and after transacting
his business tried a sample of the rum
| which is current along the coast 1t
disagreed with him aud dumped him
down an area way officer McDermott
took him to the police station for safe
keeping. When he appeared In the dock
his nose looked as though he had stung
himself. He had a good defense and 60
impressed the csdi that he was dis
charged on payment OF costs
Patrick Lynch. Of Baltimore, was
arrested by Officer lyons, suffering from
a severe case Of drunk. He pleaded that
he was not In the habit OF drinking. bat
IL didn't 60, and he was fined &1 and
costa.