The evening times., 1896-10-16

Judge Kimball had to pass judgment this
| morning ON Il number OF women, wretched
| creatures, living in two of South Washing
tons most notorious neighborhoods, Willow
Tree and Eouse alleys.
They were arrested iast night by Sergt
Daley and Policeman Bauer, who charged
| them with being yagrants and abandoned
| women.
As tney were Tired against the rail by
| h elIuig Jweive oI item tl.ry showed pitinly
| in their bluated iaccs and their deliaBty
braZen manner the life they have been
| leauing. One orthem was SO si,aIneit7ss tiat
| she exultantly admitted being lost and
| wicked and said she was no worse than a
| great n.any other " onicn WHO never come
| before his honor.
In The group was a young mulatto girl
named Virginia blackburn, VINO said she
| hau not been a demZen or the house the
| officers found her in but short while.
The Judge asked her if she had any other
place To live.
THE JUDGES ADVICE.
Yes" she answered, falteringly; Il can
| go to my grandmother's."
Then why don't you go, girl?' said
| the Judge, land get away from these asso-
Citations You are young and | think you
| have a chance to reform. VIII you Try!
"Yes, SIR said the girl, Il Will.
"And 81 right To your grandmother,
| added the court.
III go there ON Monday promised Vir
giDia.
Don't you wait until Monday" ordered
! his honor. lit may be too late then. You
/ go To her at once
Virginia swore she would, and was re-
| lease on her bonds.
/ i'm nripi bap rpiu
sObbed convuisiveiy aas she told the court
! she had Just been relca sed TrUtn the work
house ON Tuesday. She said Size was living
| in GeoTgeto wn, with her aunt, and hap
pened, by accident, to be IN Willow Tree
alley, when the officers came. She was
! lucky, and her bonds were also taken
| The other women got sixty days each, in
| default of bonds.
REBUkED THE POLICEMAN.
| Judge Kimball cannot tolerate policemen
| On the stand gong unnecessarily into tile
details of profanity or obscenity used by
| defendant
THIS morning he rebuked Policeman W.
! II. Adams for transgress.ng in this respect
| Adams had arrested Dennis Harris for dis
| orderly conduct, and was telling the court
| of Iennis' language to him after he was
| taken in Custod-. Adams was about to re-
| peat the prisoners words "A second time,
| when the judge stopped him
There, that viii do he said. 1T is not
necessary to repeat those words again"
Adams face flushed as he stepped aside.
! Ha rris was fined So.
| The judge also ccnsured Policeman l.. A.
O'Dea, who employed extreme vuiearity
in testifying gainst Richard West, young
man. aTaigned for the violation of city
| ordinance.
O'Dea used one word so broad and objec-
tionable he irritated the court.
BE careful, sir" said his honor sharp
| ly. in the language you use. such talk
| is not permitted here" The judge owned
| the policeman into silence. West was re-
| leased on his bonds
Viola Wolage, a gOod-looking colored girl,
not here very long from the country had TO
answer charge of yagrancy, preferred by
| Policeman Schuyler.
This girl was yelling murder on the
| street for no apparent reason" said the
officer. shelves in resort on Thirtcenth-
and-a-half street"
What is her reputation asked the ourt
VERY bad said Schuyler. 'she is a
woman OF the town.
That settled Vica's fate and She got
| thirty DAYS in the worIhouse
Charles Lewis is chubby-faced, blue
eyed, youngS .er Of fourteen, VITO says he
| lives in New York. ON Thirty-fifth street.
near Eleventh avenue, and came here TO
get work. The police found him begging
I
| at the station.
He was brought to court today as a va
| grant, and told tie Judge a rather discon-
| ncc.ed story.
Hecouid not describe the locality in which
lie said he lived OF tell very much about
| himself
HIS FEEBLE DENIAL.
Boy you ran away from home, didn't
your said tue Judge
| Charlie made feeble denial, but he
did not convince the Judge, who told him
he bad better tell the truth about the
matter.
| The boy kept silent, and the judge re-
manded him until the New York police
can be communicated with and something
learned of his parents.
George johnson. a burly colored man,
| received thirty days for using profanity
| on Fifteenth street last night.
George had some difficulty with n col
ored boy, and when he ran away from john
| son as The latter tried to hit him with
| brick. George pursued him for 4 block
cursing at the top of his voice. and attract
| ing large crowd, among them Policeman
| Sullivan, who had trouble getting johnson
| to the box.
The officer told the Judge of Johnson's
| actions, and the sentence was a month on
! the farm, the prisoner not making any de-
| fense.
Judge Miller held today in S3,CCO bonds
for the grand jury Charles Phillips, colorcd.
charged with assault with intent to kill
| Frederick W. Emrick
The case was continued from Yesterday
| in order to give the defense an opportunity
| TO prove an alibi for the prisoner The alifi
| 1aiied TO mater1aliZe, and flimSy indeed
was the testimony offered by Fannie Gibson
| ana her daughter, colored women at whose
| house the prisoner roomed
| tauguI,sF N Ibn Got
before the shooting Phillips came in the
| house at 1l:3O O'Clock and she called her
mothers attention to his entrance, and Iso
| strange TO say, noticed the clock at the
| same time.
| Sne na dthe date of the shootinr nat
and said her first knowledge Of the affair
came from an article she read in The Times
| the next morning.
While she was testifying her mother was
| placed in witness room and when she
| came on the stand her staten ent was some
what different from the daughters as to
| the time.
The mother first fixed the time bet
z and o o'clock, chopped it dow wn to / 1: 80,
and finally to IL. She said she kne W t W as
IL. because she heard the clock strike.
Judge Miller said no a libi h ad been proven.
in the race of the strong testimony given
| yesterday.
II tiinK there Was another man there. ;.
| said LIS honor: that two men were con
cerned in that shooting"
| Detective Hartigan told the Judge there
| was no doubt of it and the other man was
being hunted by the rolicc. Phillips could
| not furnish bail and was sent to jail.
|
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