Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-16
SHE STEPPED INSIDE
Usual Scenes in the Police Court This
Morning
A Woman With n Youthful Husband
Sent Down for Begging-The
Sentences Imposed.

"Step right inside" said Policeman Flynn
this morning to a woman who turned the
wrong way when she started from the
Maria"
Its all light, Policeman Flynn" said the
woman. land it's never yer mind about me.
When I throws away me tobacco so won't
| be chewin' in presence Of the court I'll go
me way"
Soon afterward the woman's son called to
| see her. and she calmly told him that she
had only been drinking little. and was not
enough concerned about her trouble to walk
| to the iron grating, where she could be near
him.
There was Lawrence Connolly in the pro-
| cession. and he is known in all sections of
| the city as Larry
II only got out yesterday" he told the
! keeper, land last night I went to police
station and asked for a place to rest my
mead. And, would you believe it?" he asked,
| they put me in the black wagon this MORN
| ing"
Lawrence is an old pensioner, and, like
| many of his comrades he is fond of whole
sale tipping. Just after getting out yester-
day he called at "a saloon where he had a
| little money for safe-keeping, and the re-
suit was that when he had more liquor
| aboard than he could well carry he went to
| the station and wanted to spend the night.
Lawrence was one of the score of prison.
ers who occupied the cells this morning, and
| one of his fellow prisoners was Jas. Carew,
VINO was the first one called for trial.
| Gulity, answered James when arraigned
| as vagrant.
He was begging on 18th street." Police
| man Duvall told the court. He said he came
| over here from Baltimore Yesterday and
stopped at the mission. 1 found a razor on
| him.
Thirty days"
| Son or Husband.
| Emma Allen, a little woman, who SAYS
her home IS near Alexandria, was next
| called, and Policeman Stearman COM
planned that she had been begging near
| Brightwood and Takoma. She had a paper
containing statement of her poverty, and
a youthful-looking individual in the au-
dience claimed that he was her son, but
the woman. when questioned, said, Hes
| my husband
Your husband?" asked the court, in as
constituent. He says he is your son.
II know; but he's my husband"
| Where were you marrfed?"
| AT Morristown, Tenn"
Inc ooyish-looking son or husband was
called up and questioned, and he corrob-
GRATED what Emma had said.
How old are your
| Twenty-Seven years."
you are the youngest-looking twenty
seven-year-older 1 have ever SEEM the
court remarked. You look like you are
| nine cen"
did not know in what year he was born.
Il was born in Scotland" he said, land
have been here nine years."
Judge Kimball thought they were gipsies,
and sent the woman down for a month, in
| default of security.
| OthersCnses.
Thomas Howard. a young man who says
he Is boilermaker by trade, and is here
looking for work, was in the procession for
vagrancy, because he was begging on the
street.
| Il wasn't begging" he said.
But saw him begging?' the officer said
Mike Murphy got out of the workhouse
yesterday, and said he went to the freigh,
yard to get train out of the city, but he
got very cold late last night and went t.
the station to prevent his arrest as sus
p!cious person.
when you got arrested" asked the Judge
Because had sore feet
Sore feet after being in the workhoust
SO long?"
Yes, sir; but If you'll let me go this time
1 won't wait for train again.
Personal bonds.
Four young white men and two colore6
men who had applied for lodging at tn.
first police station were in the tolls as va
grants. According to their stories, they ar,
looking for work.
Three of them were sent down, and tn,
others were released.
Connolly was brought in and discharged