The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-29
Yesterdays poL1oE COURT.
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Temple of Justice

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Temple of Justice.
The city police court assembled as
usual yesterday No morning 6. o'clock and
continued In session all day long until
nearly O'Clock in the evening There
was no intermission at noon and ell psr.
'ies In attendance went wishous their
much needed dinpers.
Tho csses of Fred Sseinbrecher and
a. o. Pagan, charged with running o
gambling house on Salem avenue, was
postponed until Monday morning.
Tom Blackwell, the colored gambler.
was fined $50 for running Gambling
and disorderly house over y. K Smiths
saloon. The prisoner WAS represented
oy harris Hoge, who appealed the case.
Charlie Clarke, Will Early and Lucian
Esrly we're arta!gned on the charge of
highway robbery from the person of
Alex. Smith, colored. The proof WAS
auhoiently strong to warrant in send
Ing the two former to the grand jury
without bail. Luoian EARLY was dis.
charged, as the prosecuting witnesses
could not recognize him as being one of
the four robbers. This capital offenae.
The latter was nlso arraigned on the
charge of carrying oonsealed weapons.
out the case was postponed until Tues
day morning, after partially hearing
the evidence,
Pink Barber oolored was sent on to
the grand jury on the charge o., having
In his possession stolen property, which
was identified as belonging to r A
Lawhorn. who had SIS and negotiable
note for $40 asoIen from him on Christ
mas night. Barber had in mis- poss sssion
large amount of money, which COR
responded with Lawhorn's money, for
which he could not account.
Several other os'es Of minor import
ance were disros d q or postponed until
Monday or Tuesday.
The case to which the most import.
auce was attached was tho casa OF Nose
Dennis, o colored youth, charged with
attempted outrage on the person OF Mrs.
Il 3. Ash on Thursday morning about
l O'Clock, In the railroad cut lust this
side OF tho stock yard hotel in North
east Roanoke. From the evidence 1t
Seems thss Mrs. Aeh was returning from
Blue Ridge Springs on Christmas morn
Ing, and, upon reaching the city, started
for the residence of her aunt, MIRA. Falls,
near tho stock yards. This occurred
between z and o'clock.
On reaching the railroad cut above
mentioned abe met a colored boy who
made indt can't exposures Of his person
nearby aud gave the alarm bu. no effort
was made to catch .he scoundrel. On
the following morning about IL o'clock
she was lccossed on the same spot By
the same party, who attempted to throw
her down. Sho werded him off with her
um brella until she could secure rock
he did the sauna and mo.ionod as if to
throw when she threatened him with
arrest. He ran away aud the officers
afterwards arrested Moses Dennis on
the charge.
He was identified by Mrs Ash In DO
lie court, as being tho same boy who
M ado the attempted assault on two suc
cessive occasions. There WAS all array
OF Witnesses. and the prisoner was rep
resented by Harris Hoge, while Colonel
Hartwell represented the common
wealth. The defense attempted to prove
an alibi. but failed, and tho prisoner
was sent on to the rand jury.