Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-01-04

VI AO1iSc Ol hlchfnOnO Olty passed
away, the well-known Captain J. b.
Angle was designated as acting Chief
AID matters remained as they were
for a while. The election by the
Board OF Police Commissioners result
ed in the election of the newly elected
captain Of the First Police Station.
RAPIDLY PROMOTED
In few months he had been pro-
NOTED to the head OF the system under
the operation OF which he had been q
faithful servant
Being a devout church-man, the re-
religious element rallied around him.
while the sporting selement regarded
with alarm his elevation to this Office.
Conservatism marked his course,
and he sent for the liquor-dealers, the
gamblers etc, and notified them OF his
intentions His declaration that be
would have Sunday observed as he
regarded it should be and in keeping
with the law was received in ominous
silence at first followed by yeils OF
disapproval by interested parties as
soon as the supurb police organization
was put to work.
The church came to the rescue of
the Chief and manfully supported him.
THE MAYORS DECLARATION.
Mayor Richard NJ. Taylor went
bow-shot beyond all Of them. He
wanted the daily paper service dis
continued, the street car lines held up
and the cooking of Sunday dinners
dispensed with.
The church-folks who had miles to
come to the sacred edifices were not
ready for so much radicalism. and the
Chief passed upon what he regarded to
be necessities Police Justice John J
Crutchfield was not TO be caught nap
ping and with his proverbial foresight
stood ready to punish all offenders
Judge s. h. Witt of the Hastings
Court was on time and promptly de-
clared that liquordealers who violated
the Sunday law could rest assured that
he would revoke their licenses
FINAL CONCLUSION.
1t was finally decided that test cases
should be made up as to what consti-
tuted necessities and Jury should
pass upon them. Accordingly news
dealers. boot blacks, daily newspaper
companies, in fact all branches of bus
mess were listed The test cases have
not as yet been tried.
The storm which had gathered was
sufficient to deter a less stern man
than Chief B. F. Howard, but he has
plodded on.
THE sERGEAET's POSITION.
In his office is the polite obliging and
efficient Air John L. Shinberger who
at the time the Chief was elected was
promoted to the position and pay OF
Sergeant.
He is one of the finest officials in the
public service, uniformly courteous
and affable, one way all the time, q
true gentleman, he has made hosts of
friends and is deservsdly popular with
all with whom he has come in contact
We present his picture in this issue.
KEMPs oAProR.
In the Chiefs Office may be seer
| tnat dignitary. Standing near him j.
| Officer Chas. A. Gibson. He is the one
who went to Boston after William
A. Kemp, the murderer of Morris BoyC
| and who was subsequently convicted
of murder in the second degree anC
and given eighteen years in the peni
tentiary.
THE coLoRED FOLKS OF BOSTON.
Officer Gibson told with some ami
nation the disgust of the colored peo
Pile of Boston at having him brini
Kemp away. He explained the cas-
to them and stated that Mitchell
would fix it all right in the PLANET
He is a popular officer.
Sergeant TOmlinson, the Police De
tect;ve is too weil-known to need fur
ther reference here He is sex ted an
is gazing intently in the distance g
he is having his photograph taken.