The evening times., 1896-07-17

Worked Everybody in Sight-Their
Story Excites Suspicion.
AS result of the cool wave last evening,
thirty people got into trouble and faced
Judge Miller in police court this morning.
Walter Smith was the police court name
of young man, who is better known as |
Walter Hyer, the son of David Hyer,
clerk i'll the sixth auditors office. Hyer
is one-arined man who is accustomed
to citing drunk, it is said. His father and
a lawyer appeared in court with him.
We plead guilty, for he was drunk"
said the lawyer, as the clerk charged his
client with being disorderly. police
man said he picked Hyer up at the corner
OF Ninth and F streets. Hyer said lie
was drunk, and someone muttered some
thing about him mot being right"
Yes, he is all right mentally" said
the lawyer. He was merely drunk
well, he can pay fine OF $1o or go
to the workhouse,' said Judge Miller.
| won't You take my personal bonds?"
asked the prisoner.
No. sir. II this mans mental faculties
are in question 1 will turn him over to
the police SURGEONS
We'll, they're not, your honor raid
the lawyer.
He may step back, then"
Charles and Frank Fowler are white
boys, who claim to be brothers. Charles is
| tall, light haired and walks on crutches, as
his left leg has been taken Off very near the
body. He told the court that he was
cigarmaker by trade.
| ln> in In 90 fr,
claimed 10 be sixteen years of age. He is
black-ha black-eyed, and Il handsome
young fellow.
THEY WORKED EVERYBODY.
A policeman said lie found one 10y on
| either side of Fourteenth street begging,
and working everybody for all they were
| worth"
Where did you come from?" asked
Judge Miller.
From Joliet, H. answered tie Older
boy. '.Weare on the way TO visit our sister
in Baltimore"
"Why did you come to Washington"
''well, Judge, we came down here to wa sh
| our Clothes"
whats that?''
| I'VE honestly did. We came over from
| Washington Junction in order to wash our
clothes. The water in the streams along
| the road was SO dirty
| A $ soon as the court had recovered from
his astonishment lie directed the smaller
boy To take the stand. He swore he was a
brother Of the big boy and was sure they
were going TO visit sister in Baltimore.
What you sisters naiue?'
The boy swallow wed a lump in ms throat,
thought an instant and answered, Mrs.
James" He did not know her address, .
who did you live with in Joliet
My grandmother"
what was her name?''
Another swallow another thought, and
he answered, Mrs. Kenny
You boys may go down to the work
house until investigate this asc further,
announced the court.
A breeze that, sprang up and squeezed
through a hole in n window pane at this
point gave fair Aeolian rendition of the
song They Have Seen Better Days" At
the same time Thomas j. Fenton and
George Callahan stepped to the front of
the dock. Neither heard the music OF the
wind, for each was charged with drun-en-
ness, and both were still under the influ-
ence of the charge of liquor.
They were drunk and disorderly and
beat a clam man down on Third and C
streets southwest said a policeman, who
then caught his breath.
1T WIS dish way. yer honor, jedge," said
the drunker of the two: We bought some
clans of old man. Zhee" He says l eat
more'n five. But didn't. an then give lin
five cents. An, jedge, he hit me an he
knocked me. an We fit"
"Were you sober?'
"Yes. yer honor, jedge; Just as, hic, sober
as am now
The other man did not want to say any,
, thing. he indica ted, as his head hung down
over his chest like n wited mornng.Glory
on garden fence in an August noontide.
] The pair were told they might pay
! fine of So or take Il vacation on the farm.
They paid the fine.
ANNIE BOBS UP AGAIN.
Annie Foley is white, very old and quite
| small. She bobs up periodically or often
in police court. She believes III the | 6 to
standard. That is, she spends sixteen
da Us in the workhouse to one outside. But
age and dissipation have the upper hand Of
Annie, and she is now hurrying toward the
grave at breakneck speed.
When the paIsied old woman placed her
hands on the railing and looked up at the
judge bailiff had TO tch her by the arm
She was having chill. She stood shiver-
| ing and shaking and said she was guilty
as the clerk charged her with drunken
| ness.
She's putting on" said half dozen
policemen who sat in the corner.
NO, she isn't; she has chill,' said
Mr. Pugh, the prosecutor
; .She has had a chill all morning. said
Railiff Darr.
"Of course she ha chill and I'll buy a
drink of whisky for her if some one will
go after it," said G. Maurice Smith, the
lawyer. The policemen smiled.
The judge ordered the woman to be taken
back to a warmer room and directed that
she go to the hospital before she was taken
to the workhouse.
NEW KIND OF BEGGING
Who hasn't seen George Davis? He is a
white haired man with a flowing mus
$ tache and a slouchy step. The man who
has not been accosted by him for "a rais,.
S pard," is entitled to be regarded as 6
. curiosity. The policeman who arrested
: him said he had been on his beat fol
= sixty days and had done nothing.
: Bailiff Cole volunteered himself as a
l. witness. He is member of Dr.. Talmage'.
! church.
"This man comes down to our church,