Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-27
A N UAL PILGRIMAG
Tramps on Their Way to the Sunny
South.
Many of Them Passing Through This
City-Cases in the Police
Court Today.

Tramps who do nothing but travel from
place to place are making an early start
for the south, where they intend to spend
the winter, and many Of them will no
doubt visit the Atlanta exposition. A num-
Der of them have already passed through
here on their way to the sunny south. and
several of them have been stopped and
sent to the workhouse.
There are others here, and some Of them
will undoubtedly follow their companions,
who are now using pick or shovel in the
District service.
Yesterday there were several knights of
the road in court, but last night they
managed pretty well to keep out of the
hands of the police While the tramps
were scarce this morning there there were ere
Police Court, where about fifteen OF them
appeared in Judge Kimbalrs procession.
The Only Female.
Lizzie Straightner, colored woman, was
the only female in the procession, and the
charge against her was vagrancy.
Are you guilty or not guilty?' Clerk
Harper asked her.
'sir. what did you say?"
you are charged with being vagrant."
the bailiff said to her Are you guilty or
not guilty?"
II amt no vasrant," she said.
"She's an old offender" said Policeman
Crawford, land I've driven her OF 14th
| and 7th streets hundred times"
"Why?"
Because she was drunk"
How often have you seen her drunk"
about twenty times during the last
year."
Yesterday, the officer said, she called at
the station and asked for place to sleep.
Il don't get drunk the way that police
nan says said Lizzie.
why do you get drunk?'
II don't get drunk said the woman. 81
live in service at rakoma Park and get
| SO a month.
"But yesterday I took little. and it
hurt me. and, judge. ri tell you how it
| happened. You see. 1 had a tooth drawed
out and took laughing gas. and I've got
| the tooth in my pocket"
Did the laughing gas make you
| drunk?"
mo, sir I took a little liquor to ease
the pain and that's what made me feel
| SO bad
why did you ask to be sent DOWN."
Il didn't ask any such thing" answered
| Lizzie, Il only wanted to stay in the sta
| ton till felt better, because didn't want
| TO be seen staggering on the street,
Her personal bonds were taken.
Regular Caller.
John Henry Simms, a colored man who is
| a regular caller, was drunk last night and
got arrested.
| The charge against him was profanity.
but the charge was not substantiated, and
| he was released.
Charles Williams,a young man who works
with huckster wagon, was In the tolls on
complaint of Policeman Mason, who charged
| him with vagrancy, because he tried to sell
| pair of spectacles at house on 9th street
| southeast, where he also tried to sell some
potatoes.
ha
| prisoner land wanted to sell them
Didn't you know they were not gold?"
| the court asked.
Il bought them for gold" was his res
ponse.
"Where?'
From man at the market
What did you pay him for them?''
sixty cents"
Hereafter" said the Judge, Il would ad-
| wise you not to mix your business"
The charge against him was dismissed
Four months ago a small colored boy
named William. Willis was arrested in a
| cake wagon, so Policeman Mcguire told the
court.
NO 1 wasn't" said the boy.
But you were arrested for something's"
Il was sitting on step near where some
boys were playing crap said William, but
1 wasn't in the game"
Last night he took hat off dummy in
front of Isaac Sakolskis store ard ran
away with it, but the proprietor followed
him and placed him under arrest.
DO you know anything about this boy?"
the judge asked Lawyer Chase.
Hes been here several times, respond
ed the lawyer, land 1 defended him the
time he was in the cake wagon"
The boy was sentenced to the reform
school.
Using the Sidewalk.
Lewis Ward, an elderly man, was in the
procession because of his Incorporate
habits. Obstructing the sidewalk was the
charge read against him, and he answered
guilty
Wasn't this man here few days ago."
the court asked.
mo. your honor" answered the old man;
Il was here four months ago."
Hes been locked up three times this
week for being drunk" said the officer.
and last night he was lying on the pave
ment"
Five dollars"
William Smith, colored, who is unmac-
ried, got drunk yesterday, and the liquor
robbed him of his senses He then labored
under the delusion that he was married
man, and that his wife had died. The old
man knew he had no money, and SO he
went from house to house, asking for
money to defray the funeral expenses.
Several persons gave him money said
the officer, land he spent 1t for liquor"
Smith admitted that he had no wife, and
the judge sent him down for ninety days,
and told him he would have time to think
1T over
A young colored man who was docketed
as Henry Mallory appeared at the rail- and
entered plea of not guilty to charge of
vagrancy, and made GENIAL of everything
that was said against him.
He came out on the works yesterday"
said witness. land when I turned my
back he snatched my coat and ran away"
Il didn't snatch any coat" said the pris-
oner. Il went out there, looking for work,
and failed to get it, but didn't take any
coat"
Witnesses told of other thefts, and said
that many of the men had been robbed of
their dinners.
you will have to give security or go
down for cixty days" said the court; land
you must understand that you will have to
let workingmen's clothes alone"
Thos. Wise plead guilty to a charge of
profanity, and was fined IS or fifteen days.
Charles Walker the last prisoner in the
procession, was fined IS for disturbing the
Salvation Army meeting last night.
Burn Garbage Mt Alexander Island.
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