The evening times., 1896-10-08

Judge Kimball had only four prisoners
| In the dock this morning, and among them
was Cutler DunmoFe, culofed, arrested
| by Policeman c, C. Smith, OF the Fourth
precinct, who charged the prisoner with
| shooting crap in Wonders alley ON Sep
| tember 2S last.
Before the trial was over Smith was
severely rebuked by the court Tor his un-
warranted action in firing at the crap
shooters, who ran ON the approach or the
officer Two witnesses sworc Smith
aimed directly at the IicenS gamblers,
| while the policeman said lie Tired III the
air.
As for the man he arrestcd,it was shown
! To the courts satisfaction lie was not On
gagged in the game and went III the alley
attracted by the sound of the shot.
Minnie Sayoy, Alice Ennis and Harry Wal
alec said Cutler was in house with them
when the revolver was discharged Law
yer lie wlctt, who represented the defend
ant. denounced the officers cUndlct + nd
Judge kimban said: "Ah officer who VIII
DO tnat should he brought Up IN charges.
Time and time again have c.la.;oned and
warned policemen against the reckless use
OF firearms, and SO has Judge Miller, but
they seem To disregard :hc warning"
THE JUDGES REMARKS.
"There is no excuse for il, and the mat
ter Should be looked after by the trial
board. The lives of innocent people are
placed in jeopardy, and think after the
Judges OF this court say SO few more
times it viii be stopped
AS his honor proceeded he became irdlg-
nant at tue wantOn behavior Of smith,
and declared empEatcaiiy II was an out
rage on the community.
This was only lriiIing Inisdemeanor,"
continued the court. No serious crime
had been committed, and the policeman
had no right to use his pistol
Smith t.ieI To explain, but the judge
refused to listen To him, saying notbihS
could pallate his iudiscretion.
The defendant denied being in the game,
aud his lawyer said his testimony should
stand as well as the officers.
"As for the witnesses" said Hewlett,
there is no incentive for them to commit
perjury"
ON this point his honor expressed him
seIs strongly. He said the perjury com
mitted before him each day was frightiul
II cannot understand it, he said, why
people periure themselves here day after
DAY for no reason whatever
The court told ons OF the girls he did not
beliye her, but acquitted Dunmore on
Wal!ace's statement
1t is very probable after Judge Kim
balls remarks, the Commissioners VIII
investigate the affair.
Martin l.. Rhodes, a Methodist preacher
from Flanders, Morris county, y here
ON his bridal trip, was charged with de
stroying public property in chipping some
stone from the Washington Monument with
his umbrella. He was arrested by Special
Officer Walter Jonesthis morning and came
to court with his wife, pretty blonde,
dressed in a sIatc-colored walking dress
and a stylish, stiehrfitring English box
coat. She wore n smart toque and Il black
boa around her slender, white throIt.
Her husband was dressed i'll the aus.crc,
conventionalbl black of his calling, and showed
considerable trepidation on the stand.
THE MINISTER'S ADMISSION.
lie acknowledged his guilt, and after Of
ficer Jones had shown the pieces OF stone
the defendant had broken from one OF the
marble blocks. said nervously, Your honor,
did chip these pieces because my Wife
asked me- Inc p1eGcHti ctt>l du OLA
ious glance at her as she concealed the
blush on her sweet face among the teachers
OF her boa.
"He gave pretty good Jam with his
umbrella ;" said Jones, Ito break the slab
and thought he should be arrested
"You acted perfectly right" said the
Judge, frowning at the minister The
idea of people breaking pieces from the
Monument! 1 can't understand what IN
sane impulse prompts them to do IT. What
use are those tiny fragments OF stone to
them?" His honor stared at the chips in
jones hands, while the preacher cleared
his throat and his wife Mushel an addi-
tioual shade of scarlet.
You are fined $40 Sir" sail the judge.
"Is that the best you can do?" asked
Mr. Rhodes, as he fislled in hts pocket for
some money.
NO, indeed, sir,' said the judge, iron
want it."
The preacher hurriedly gave Clerk Har-
per SO aud Joined his bride, who thinks
Judge Kimball is real mean man to
all the pleasure of her honeymoon
in breaking into the pocketbook of her
hubby.
Ebert Riley, white boy, arrested for
throw ing stones on complaint of a neigh
Dor, Mrs. Cook, " no lives next door to his
mother in the southeast, cried so bitterly
at being brought into police court that the
Judge took pity on him, and after a arning
sent him lhome.