The evening times., 1896-05-07

| Judge klmDall nuu Small uOcket tiiiS
morning, and nearly all of the prisoners
were colored. The Caucasian race must
] have been on their good behavior yesterday,
for he only had one white prisoner in the
pcn Mamie Webster, charged with vagran-
oy.
All the cases were of the most ordinary
kind, and his honor had no Gordian knots
to cut, or tangled legal skeins to disentangle..
| Kendig didn't have work enough to
keep himself warm in the damp court room.
He told Flynn that If the present virtuous
streak kept up two gentlemen he knew
| of would be out of a job.
Flynn said the world owed every man a
living. and he had no fear of getting off
Easy street.
THE FIRST CASE.
Charles Gaines could have broken a
cold bottle Of 'fizz' for less. than II cost
him to smash a whisky flask on Seventh
| street last nj Ght. Gaines, a colored man,
had been drinking and after he emptied
| the bottle thre " II on the pavement, smash
| ing il in n thousand fragments, thereby
committing an offense against the police
regulations.
| Policeman Hendrix arrested Gaines and
| locked him up. This morning the de-
| fendaut n little rocky from the nights
debauch, said the bottle slipped out Gf his.
pocket.
| at wuz like dis, yo' onnah," said Charles,
beating an aggravating tattoo on the rail
until Kendig stopped him, ''Ize lookin' fer
a match in nah pockit. anil fumblin' round
pulls 1t out an it falls on de pavement"
pulled what out" asked the court, "the
| match or the bottle?''
"De bottle. boss" answered Gaines, who
also said it was empty and getting re-
joiuder from the court that he felt sure
of that. Gaines is not the kind of man to
carelessly handle bottle with anything in
1t.
Policeman Hendrix said positively that
| the defendant deliberately smashed the
| flask.
Judge Kimball said the case was made
out, and fined Gaines SIS.
LOVES HIS CHILDREN.
James Robinson's love for his children
got him In trouble, and he had a charge Of
vagrancy against him today. He was
caught in the station of the Penns ylvania
de pot, trying to board an Alexandria train.
What were you doing on those cars?'
asked Judge Kimabll.
Robinson, weak. forlorn-looking yellow
man, said lie was trying to reach Alexan-
dria.
what for?'' asked the court.
MY clillun Ibis down there
Robinson said he longed to get backand see
his family. and not having any money, he
was trying to beat his way.
1T would have been better had you used
some other METHOD observed his honor.
James cast a glance at his broken shoes
and shook his head.
''If let you go, will you leave town at
once?'' inquired the court.
Robinson said he would burn the wind
getting away.
"Then I'll take your personal bonds,
and you start for the Long Bridge just as
soon as You leave the courthouse" said
Judge Kimball.
Robinson promised and was released.
ARCHIE LOST HIS EARNINGS.
The next prisoner; also n colored brother;
Archie Lucket in trying to make some extra
money, had the earnings of several weeks
swept iTto the capacious nav OF the law.
Archie runs alittle barber shop on Seventh
street. Last Sunday sergt. Kaucher, who
possesses an eagle eye. saw man go in
the side door of Luckets shop. The door,
the sergeant says, is especially constructed
for the convenience and concealment OF
Sunday custom.
He got q focus on the interior and saw
Archibald desecrating the Sabbath and
defying the law. On his shirt sleeve he
was vigorously stropping razor, while
the customer was spread out in the chair
his face covered with lather. In another
chair sat man awaiting his turn.
The sergeant swore out a warrant and
Luckett came to grief He pra ctically
admitted the fact of doing business On
Sunday, and pleaded ignorance of the
law.
The judge said such ignorance was mex
cusable, and fined the defendant $50.
Luckett is a poor man and has family,
and on these grounds he pleaded for mercy.
Judge Kimball said he would show lem
iency, but the law allowed bim no choice
but to impose a fine of $50.
Luckett got $15 together. and the court
gave him time to pay the other $5.
Mamie Webster, a young white woman,
will have to furnish 500 bonds or go down
for sixty days. The police of the Sixth
precinct say she is q vagrant, and female
Of frail character.
AS for Mamie, twenty-five years old and
a divorce, she stubbonly denied all the
damaging testimony brought to bear against
her. Yvette Guilbert, for her great por-
trayal of such creatures as La Soularde
might have found fresh material in Ito
spectacle of Mamie's wretchedness.
She bore all the appearance of a woman
who has lived too fast. Red spots burned
on her cheeks and her eyes were all blood
shot from the restless, sleepless Mi ght she
had spent in a cell. She bit her full under
lip fiercely until blood trickled down her
chin aud splashed on the plaid shirt waist
she wore.
sbesqueezed her hands convulsively while
the officers built wall Of evidence around
her. Added to her shame was the presence
In the courtroom of her forme husband.
Policeman Coghill made the arrest at the
instigation of Precinct Detective Hartigau,
who has been shadowing her for some time
Hartigan is terror to the women of the
street in his precinct. and is always on the
trail after the class of which Mamie is a
member.
Last night Hartigan saw her approach
man on the street, and, after some conv versa
ton, walk with him in the direction of her
house at No. 1O3 Second street. When she
got near there Hartigan and Coghill arrested
her.
what did you do with the MANI" asked
Mamie's counsel, Lawyer Hewlett.
Hartigan said he let him go as he had no
right to arrest him.
THE MAN NOT ARRESTED.
"There are cases when we can detain