The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-12
Record of Business Transacted in the
City Courthouse Yesterday.
AFAlR-SlzED GRIST IN POLICE COURT
Hut Among the Crowd of sweIterinE
Offenders There Was Not One
Whose Case Was Sensational SO Far
as Spectators Were Concerned
I'm the Corporation Court.

was unusually large and required two
sheetS. None of the cases were of eSpe-
ctal Importance, however.
or late many brawls and rows have
occurred on lower Bank street, among
tn women who have recently moved
there. Formerly the Police Court rarely
had q case from that section, now the
average Is about one q week. Two were
considered yesterday. The first, that OF
Rocko Schelezer, was continued one day.
Rocko Is q fruit dealer, and Is charged
with emptying bucket of water on a
woman who is a next door neighbor.
Sunday night Officer Childress arrest
ed Il. w. Seymour, an auctioneer, and
MS wife, who u week ago moved into
rooms on Bank, near Hill. The specific
charge was fighting, though the police
man also declared that they kept dis
orderly house. His Honor said he would
require bond of $3.50 of the woman.
put he afterwards released her upon
the condition that she would leave town
by noon to-day, which she promised to
do.
w. E. Wyatt, who lives at No. 1896
Main street. was arraigned on the charge
Oh shooting a dog in the street. The
case was continued T. Wednesday, a
pond or S25 being required.
John Brooks, colored, was charged
with abducting 1lve-year-old Sallie
Maniey. 1t was shown tina; the mother
OF the girl was an inmate of the aims
house, and had given the girl to Brooks
to keep. The case was dismissed. :
Lucy Winston and Alice Billups,
Jones Court nuisances, were punished
severely, the former getting sixty days
and the latter thirty, with the option
OF paying $40 fine.
Ell Holloway. colored. was sent to jail
for ninety days for stealing a gold watch
from Thaddeus Cox, and thirty days for
larceny of a coat. johnson Mills. color
ed, arrested on suspicion of being con-
nected with the latter theft, was dis
charged.
John Smith was fined 500 and given
thirty days in Jail for cutting friend
among the minor cases were the fol-
lowing:
Dismissed-Sam Simmons, Bessie Rus.
SELL colored, drunk; Ella Whitehurst.
colored lighting: Annie Parsons. James
Jones, colored, Il. Madison, white. nui-
sance; c. T. Henderson. colored, as
Sault; JEFF. Wright, white. and Rose
Foreman. colored. breach of the peace:
Thomas Hawkins. Dan johnson, Jordan
FULLER, colored, suspicious Characters:
William Watkins, William Smith, fight,
ing.
Estelle johnson, Ida Thorogood. fight
ing, fined $3.50 and costs
James Match. colored, breach of the
peace, fined $3.50 and costs.
Maggie Gibbs, cA.ored, breach of the
peace; fined So and costs.
e. Bright, colored, breach of the peace.
fined $40 and costs.
Mamie Ormsby. white, drunk; fined 81
and costs. ~
Dan Mantley, colored. abusing his
wife: continued one day.
Irene Widgeon. colored. fighting. s5o
bond 10 keep the peace.
Johnnie Whitehurst, colored, assault.
fined $40 and costs; appeal.
william Garland. white. suspicious
character; held for five days.
oman Mason, colored. running cook
S shop without license; continued to
Dismissed-Charles Richards Art,,,,
Johnson. William Logan, white, Va.
grants; Milton Brown, colored, larceny.
george Kendall white, drunk: Milan
Lewis, white, nuisance.
william Craghton. white. drunk and
preaNl or the peace; held for four davs
NAY, Nay Carol. colored, nuisance: con.
do James les Davis. colored. larceny; sixty