Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-23
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Difficulty in Keeping Prisoners in the
Chain Gang
A Remedy Susgcsted-Some Cases In
the Police CONTRIBUTIONS Hap
penfngs of Interest.

The game laws, which forbid the shooting
of reed birds. sora, blackbirds and other
marsh birds in the marshes adjacent to
the cfty,hav been published, and the police
have been ordered by Acting Mayor Snow
den to see that they are rigidly enforced.
Yesterday Policemen Dean and Young
learned that some parties had been gun
ming in the marshes Oil Hunting creek just
south of the city and started after them.
The gunners, however, were on the lookout
and escaped. The officers, however, cap
tuFed a lot of birds that had been shot, and
they know and will arrest the guilty hunt
erS.
In the Police Court.
Justice Thompson in the police court this
morning disposed of the following cases:
Walter Cline, charged with fighting, dis
missed; VIM. Gregg, charged with fighting,
fined $3.50; Peter Kits, charged with as
saulting Annie Summerfield, fined IS or
sixty days on the gang, and was sent back
to the gang with thirty days added to his
original sentence for having escaped there
from; Ida Evans, for being drunk in the
street, was fined 81.
Assaulted His Foster Mother.
Some days ago Peter Kits. a colored
man, was sentenced to serve a term on the
chain gang for breaking the laws of the
city, but he did not stay on the gang long.
mother, Annie Summerfield, and told her
she had to pay his fine and have him re-
leased legally. This she agreed to do. and
promised to get him off the next day.
This did not suit Kits. and he insisted
that she should secure his release at once;
but owing to the fact that at the time she
did not have the money she had to tell him
again to wait until the next day. This
angered Kits and he proceeded to clean
out the house, and after he had done as
a as
one out of the house, he locked himself on
the inside. policeman was notified, and
Kits was arrested. and this morning sent
to the chain gang for sixty days for his
conduct.
Escapes From the Chain Gang.
There has been a great deal of trouble
of late In keeping prisoners on the chain
gang who had been sentenced in the police
court to terms in the Jail subject to the
gang, and almost daily some one escapes,
and although they wear ball and chain.
prevent their getting away. This morning
two negro Migrants, both wearing heavy
steel shackles, got away.
1t has been suggested that the best means
OF holding the prisoners when they are at
work on the streets is to provide q long
steel chain and fasten every man on the
gang to 1t. In this way no one prisoner
could get away and it would be impossible
Lively Fight.
A lively fight between John Hall and
Howard Davis on South Fairfax street yes
terday afternoon created some little ex-
element. Hail was the aggressor and was
fined s2.50 for the fun he had. 1t appears
that Davis was joking with Hall. when
Hall took exception to something he had
said and called him liar, and at the same
time struck Davis in the face. They
clinched and the fight ended with honors
even.
Notes of Interest.
Mr.. B. Wheatley, who has been attend
ing the funeral directors convention at
Danville, has returned to the city.
Miss Bessy Crymes Ia visiting friends In
Winchester.
Judge ]. K. NJ. Norton Of the corporation
court has returned from the White Sulphur
Springs.
Rev. Henderson -Suter, D. D., rector Of
Christ Church, has returned from Bedford
City. DR.. Suffers health continues very
bad.