Evening star., 1895-09-13
F N ID ON FRIDAY
Many Unfortunates Who Are Sure the Day
is Unlucky.
Probability of a Vacancy In the Vic
tor Drum COrps-A RefOrmer
Who Cannot Reform.

Among the first to line up before Judge
Kimball in the Police Court this morning
| was Lizzie Stewart. She was charged with
being vagrant, and her appearance did
not belle the charge. Two policemen who
have seen her hanging around the fish
wharves conducting herself in an unseemly
manner gave damaging testimony against
| her. She will leave the work house Septem-
| ber o.
Lizzie was only enc of many unfortunates
| who for enc reason or arother spent last
night behind the bars, and were taken into
| the Police Court to have their cases passed
/ upon. Altogether there were thirty-four
prisoners in the cells, and Of this number
eight were women.
The next woman whose face appeared
above the dock was Bertha Shaw. She was
a rather pretty mulatto girl, neatly dressed,
but the charge agar st her was "disorderly
conduct" in a house. She cursed and swore
| and sang indecent songs in voice SO loud
as to be heard by a policeman passing
did she sing Annie Rooneyr" asked
her lawyer.
WELL hardly"
three women in tie house. and he was not
| certain that Lizzie was the singer. He did
| know, however, that she used the bad lam
guage. The three women were having a
| tiont' as the defendants lawyer expressed
| 1t. All three were arrested, but the other
| two forfeited their collateral
Bertha's lawyer quoted decision OF
| Judge Wylie with reference to disorderly
conduct on the street.
''Wcll," said Judge Kimball, ''as the law
under which this informa ton was drawn
| was enacted long after Judge Wylie retired
| from the bench, do not see how that de-
| cision avails very much.''
Bertha took the stand in her own behalf,
nI,~,
house servant, and had never been arrested
| before. In view of these facts the Judge
| let her off with a fine of s..
Trouble i'm the Corps.
The next case to occupy the attention of
| the court was one that had it's origin in
the parade last Monday evening in honor
of the victorious rifle team Of the District
National Guard.
The complaining witness was Mr.. Thos.
H. Unsworth, the manager of the Victor
Drum Corps, and the defendant was Mr..
John Brady. whose little son Willie is a
| bugler in the corps.
According to Mr.. Unsworth's story on the
stand this morning, he ordered out the
| organization to furnish it's share of music
for the parade. Mr.. Brady came around to
mis- house to know why he had ordered out
| his son without his consent. He came up
| onto Mr.. Unsworth's front porch and be-
rated him loudly. acting generally in a loud
|
knock Mr.. Unsworth down before he got
| through. Mr.. Unsworth's son was present
at the time, and corroborated his fathers
statement.
Mr. Brady denied that he had acted in
a disorderly manner. although, he said, he
| had plenty Of provocation. He said that all
during the summer the corps had been
| taken off down the river on all sorts of ex-
cursions and to lawn parties and garden
| fetes en- every possible occasion.
The result was that the boys were out
till all hours Of the night. Monday even
| ing he went around to Mr.. Unsworth's to
| find cut where his son was, and to take
him. He characterized Mr.. Unsworth's
| action in swearing out warrant against
him as mean piece of spite work.
The court told Mr.. Brady that he had no
right to create such disturbance under
| any circumstances. and fired him s.. The
| chances are that little Willie will soon send
in his resignation as a member of the Vic
| tor Drum Corps.
Promised to Reform.
| George Stewart" called the clerk of the
court.
young man walked UP to the railing.
| His limbs were trembling as with the
| palsy and his eyes were red and bloodshot.
| In other words, he showed all the signs Of
| having been on a prolonged debauch
Stewart is ice-looking young man, and
Guild no doubt be a first-rate fellow If he
could only let whisky alone.
Less than a month ago Judge Kimbal
sent him to the work house for fifteen
days to give him a chance to sober up
He has been out about a week. and has
been drunk all the time, so the policeman
said who arrested him. He was charged
this morning with being an habitual drunk
ard. He begged piteously to be given an
other chance, promising to swear off at
once and reform for good.
Judge kimball told him that he had
heard tnat sort of promise too often before
ard sent him down for thirty days. with
months if he came up again on the same
charge.
Annie Murray and Jennie Shaw appeared
| in court later in the morning to answer to
| the same charge as Bertha Shaw who
was fined s. soon after court was opened
Annie's personal bonds were taken and
Jennie was discharged