The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-30
ADMIRERS GAVE HER WHISKY
Then She Exchanged Black Eyes With
Abe AEdrews-Her Appetite for Re-
venge ana Warlike Demonstration
Toward Her Foe in Court Resulted
in u Heavy Sentence.

| SFtdttI Sr less HDSlli many OF lb.fn ItdTntt
that they would not again bask annie
sunbeans for periods OF time extending
from five TO ninety days in length.
Maggie Lee is sotorcd girl, a terror and
! an habitue OF the workhOuse. She lives
| when not stopping at the farm, in Temple
court. But MagTie's footsteps echo behind
prison walls almost as much as they do
in the walls that fence in the narrow
boulevard of her native heath.
I'm the sunshine OF Paradise alley ~
! she sang to crowd OF male admirers
last night. That was all right, but Maggie
sang II so fIeGucntly-just ike the hypno-
tized Triiby. people said-justlike the bypno-
mirers thought it hut gallantry that they
| should purchase whisky for the nighs-
! ingale.
MISS LEE SANG PROFANITY.
Miss Lee drank, and then her voice became
like Trilby's after the demise OF SvencaIi.
She mingled Il rich vocabulary Of profane
words with her song, and policeman ar
rived.
Abe Andrews, 20 called dat cop" said
Maggie, and she flew at one Of the men
about her like an Amazon attacking the
president "f an African Suffrage conven-
ton.
The pair exchanged black eyes, and Mag
gle said, I'm guilty, OBJ COURSE" to Judge
Kiniball this morning.
She would have got off with sixty days
in the workhouse il She had been content
with the statement Of the Policeman, but
she also desired TO make a remark. Abe
stood near the dock gate when she came
out, aud she thrust her fist Under his
nose.
IN raise the fine in this case 10 $50 and
mike The sentence ninety days" said the
court.
Frank McGuire's face is as familiar in
police court as some peoples faces are in
church.
Il found him holding people up on the
avenue and asking them for money! said
the officer who made the arrest.
Prank, when did you leave the work
house," asked Judge kimban.
Last Monday, yer honor, II you'n let
me go, IN 20 down the river to fish"
"oh, it's too early to fish. Three mon ths"
BOYS OUT OF WORK.
Henry Myer and Herman Hertz are Ger
man boys Of about eighteen and twenty
years respectively. policeman told the
street for the last three days.
Il came from Richmond three day vs. ago.
said Myer. and am On my way back home
in New York
What did You stop here furc'' asked
Judge Kimb
We'll. l Just laid off To get dried out
after the rain
The rain? Why, there has been no rain
for days.
Well. 1t raincd down at Richmond
Why didn't you go on home after getting
here?''
Il stopped at the municipal lodging house
and wanted To stay my three days out"
Hertz, what have you to say:'' de-
manded the court
Hertz may have had much 10 say but he
indicated that he could not speak English.
viii you leave town i'll one hour if |
give you the chance?'" said Judge Kimbau.
Il VIII. answered Myer. and Hertz in
dicated that it would give him pleasure to
do the same.
Take their personal bonds
Daniel II. Mitchell and Richard Kelly
We're also arrested as Migrants. Detective
Wccdon hagged them. He had seen them
stopping people on the Avenue. and when
a man appeared in a hurry they would lit
orally hold him up in a doorway.
Yesterday the pair stopped the District
property clerk and asked him for enough
to go II Emrich's and get two square meals.
Were winnin' to leave town" said
You'll go to the workhouse for thirty
lays before you do said the court.
LIVES IN NOSE ROW.
Charlie Robinson is a little colored hoy
who lives in Nose Row. He says he is fif-
teen years old, but he looks about ten. |
He was charged with being a suspicious
character unable to give Il good account |
Of himself
As he stood beside the stalwart police |
nan another boy of his own height might |
nave stood upon his shoulders and the sec
md boys head would have been little |
above that of the patrolman.
Betty > and O'Clock in the morning
saw this boy hanging around in front of |
4 store said the policeman. He acted |
'uSpiciously. \ little boy who will testify |
after me has seen him steal milk from |
doors tcpS.''
"What?' said the judge; has taken milk |
rom doorstepS. But then you can let |
he boy tell that
Yes: and the boy will testify that he
ook bread, too
What? Took bread from the doorsteps, |
-oo?''
Il didn't steal no bread" said Charlie,
is he climbed up into the witness stand and |
he tears came in his eyes.
Where were you going so carly in the t
norning?" asked the Judge.
II wurks TO Il huckster. an / wus goin'
o wurk. said Charlie But didn't steal |
10 bread. lives with my grandmother, an
YES got lots o. bread at home
Did you ever steal any milk?''
"Yas. onct. But didn't steal no bread"
what was done with you?"
Il went to Jail To- dat, an Use arrested
net To- shootin' craps
Send to the boys grandmother and ask
er to fake care of the boy" said Judge
.imball.
Bernard O'Brien and Edward Foley,
White men, arrested for vagrancy, were sent
own for fifteen days each.
We're Gleeson men, and he'll pay for
ur drinks they were accused of saying
D an II street saloonkeeper, and when they
idn't get them they created a disturbance.
Leo Bowen. au old white-haircd colored
nan. VINO was arrested for begging, was
mt to the poorhouse by Judge Kimball this
lorninE in the police court. Bowen is a
erfect prototype of Uncle Tom" He
J decrepit and rheumatic and has existed
or long time by begging and doing
hores.
Won't you let me go home to straighten