The evening times., 1896-02-28
HE WANTS TO HONE.

II come frum Sommerset, Virginny, re-
piled the boy.
Where do you want to go?'
81 wants ter go back home
"well, ] guess that's the best place to
send you," commented his honor. .'Mr.
Croft, will you see il Mr.. Frank can send
this boy away?''
Mr.. Croft arranged matters with Mr..
Frank, and Robert was started on his
journey homeward.
Percy Hill and Richard Smith, tiny crap
shooters, were next arraigned. special
watchman at the Haymarekt arrested them.
and told the court how 1t was.
"They were shooting crap at Tenth and
Streets" he said. ~ saw them put
their money down and throw the dice"
Judge, your honah,'' said Richard tear
fully, II jes' borrowed n nickel rum dis
boy fer to ride home. He han'ed HE five
pennies, an two oh 'em dropped under a
board. / went down ter git 'em, an wen
cum up dis man an anoder feller grab
me. We wuZn't shoOtin' crap"
Five dollars each,' and the two little
fellows stepped back to serve fifteen
days term in the workhouse.
Charles H. Brown, an old negro with brass
buttons on knit Jersey, was arraigned as
a va grant by Policeman Kilmartin, OF the
First precinct.
This old man has been coming to the
station house the last three or four nights
for lodging said he. I'VE told him 10
keep away, but he came again last night
and was locked up. He said he was from
Pennsylvania, and is getting pension"
THE OLD MAN WAS RELEASED. .
.I cum FUN Harrisburg" said Brown,
"an' am gittin' my pension. Use been or
dered to go befo' de examiner today at
2 o'clock. Heah is my papers"
"well, I'll take your bonds; don't want
to keep you from getting a pension"
James j. smead, a very stylshIy dressed
negro youth, was in the dock, charged with
riding bicycle without lamp. Policeman
NcDaniels made the arrest.
81 saw this man riding bicycle with no
light on Sixteenth street last night after
dark" said the officer. He had q lamp
on his machine but II was cold"
II had some ways to go when 1 lef'
home" said Smead, IAN I took de boss
wheel. The lamp was burnin' when ler
home. but it went out on me about a square
an half from de house. OATS where
us man arrested [De.
Five dollars fine" said the court, and
James face grew long until he saw his
boss hand So over to the clerk. Then his
white teeth CLEANED again, and he walked
out OF the courtroom looking as though he
had been to circus.
Ernest Butler, the colored boy who Gre
ated a sensation by firing off a revolver
at the mouth of Freeman's alley last night,
was arraigned before Judge Miller on a
charge of carrying concealed weapons. Po-
liceman Frank Auldridge and John B. Gar
ner appearing against him.. The case was
dismissed.
Timothy Mccarthy was arraigned before
Judge Miller on a charge OF assaulting
Edward McCaulcy, a watchman on the
Baltimore and Ohio railway at the Delaware
avenue crossing.
Special Officer Green, who made the
arrest, testified that Mccarthy was very
drunk, and McCaulcy. when he saw him
last night, had his face and neck scratched
and bruised.
McCaulcy testified that the defendant
had come 10 his box in a very intoxicated
condition, and, after abusing him, bad
knocked him down. Judge Nillcr im-
posed q fine OF So.
A charge of iisorderiy conduct, also
preferred against hin, by Green, was dis
missed