The evening times., 1896-07-06

yell Harrison sprinted, like q runner
breasting the tape, to the place from whence
tile sound came-a dingy little house, the
porch occupied by William Payne, an
nouncing that he ''wuz niger, an dat
he wuz glad Oh it, winding up this decia-
ration with a brush of profanity.
AT the sight of Harrison he made
break toward the canal IE>. rison caught
him on the brink, Payne doing Lis best to
pull the officer in. Sitting on a canal
boat near by the proprietor and his family
watched the struggle pladdly. When Har-
rison finally broke Payne's hold and the
letter toppled over into the water, the
officer seated himself calmly by the
waters edge, advising Payne to come
out and go along quietly to the station.
which he did after picking some mud out
OF his eyes and wriu ging the water out
OF his coat.
This morning Payne, in clayey state,
pleaded guilty, after Harrison had re-
lated his thrilling adventure 10y land and
sea. The court made it $40 or thirty
days.
LOST HIS LIBERTY.
Policeman Joyce had Clara Beckett be-
fore Judge Kimball for disordelly conduct.
roor Clara, in her chagrin at losing sweet
heart, also lost her liberty. In the days
of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth it was writ
ten by the Bard of Avon that hell hath
no fury like woman scorned." And those
words with their bitter truth have lived
through all the centuries that have elapsed,
the expression of the venom discarded
woman feels.
Many u princess patrician breast has been
agita ed by the same emotion which was
choking the black throat of the girl who
stood in the dock today and sobbed out
in her rough way the story Of how she
had loved and lost.
| She said for two years William Taylor
| had been her beau, until Rose Taylor
won him from her.
"She's better lookin' den me-" wept
Clara, unconsciously honest on that point
| for one of her sex, but she'll nebber be
good to him like 1 has,"
Policeman Joyce, who characterized
the case as "a most extraordinary one,
your honor, most extraordinary sir" testi
fled that Clara was reviling Rose and had
the alley where they lived In a state of
agitation. The court pitied Clara and
fined her lightly.
ONE OF THE SMITHS.
The Smith family usually manage to have
| a representative in court. This morning
| it was william Smith, who suffered from
| Temporary insanity Saturday night on
| Twelfth street northwest. The continual
| round of pleasure he experienced in burn
| ing fire-crackers and drinking to the sue
| cess of his country, led him into cxcesses
which attracted the attention of a large
crowd.
William planted himself on conner, ex-
| horting his hearers to join with him in
recitins the Declaration of Independence,
q task beyond Williams foggy brain and
thick tongue. He was in that stage of
drunkenness where a man wavers between
the lively and the severe.
All at once Smith, who had been singing
in a maudlin tone, became very grave. He
parted the crowd, went to store. bought
| a pack of firecrackers, and, with great de-
liberation, a fter lighting the fuse. put them
in his coat tail pocket, walking down the
street in an unconcerned way, the crackers
swapping and exploding at every step, until
| a man with some sense and feeling tore
| Smiths coat off, which caused that gen.
tlcman to curse4iike pirate. 1t was then
the policeman arrested him.
| At the rail of the dock he lounged in his
shirt sleeves, yellow as a piece of punk the
dag after the Fourth. He told Kendig that
he had made rdem foul'' of himself,
and would tell tlieicourt he was guilty.
Judge KimbaIi made it q So fine. which
| was paid by u lBtle pippin- faced woman in
the audience, who regarded Poor Smith
! vindictively. She twas his wife. ..v-'