The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-01
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE
News Of the City Courts and Of
s.. Clerks Office Transactions.
JAIL SENTENCES FREELY DISPENSED
5ustice To.nIin bends n Number of
ohender" 10 the city Prison.
fluctuations OF n CoIorad Groom.
H""y minor Cnses-A .yvire Hea,er,
Arrested. :

Justice Tomlin dispensed Jail sentences
to n numer of prisoners, who were arr
raigned before him yesterday. Their
oLenses ranged from default in giving
peace bond to larceny, and in detail
are as follows:
Lav!nia Green, colored. stealing one
dollar from Mamie Jasper, colored: 30
days. 49,
Mamie Jasper. colorcd stealing bed.
ciouning TO the amount of seventy-hye
cents from Rebccca White, colored: Is
days. =
Edward Downing, indecent conduct 81
the corner OF Main and Banks streets
Yesterday afternoon; fined $3.50 and 30
days. "
John Thompson, thirty days in default
or furnishing 800 good behavior bond.
a COLORED GROOM ARRESTED,
Albert Harris. colored waiter, was
recently married to Smithfield belle
ana before he started away from Inver-
ness Inn. where he was employed. he
borrowed S11 from Eliza Day, 10 helm
defray the expenses Of his happy errand
When Eliza asked for the repayment OF
the loan, he rendered her only a portion
or 1t, which she declined to accept, and
when Albert came to Norfolk yesterday
ne was arrested OH the charge of en-
bezzlement. When he was arraigned in
the Police Court, however, Justice Tom
lin dismissed the case. holding that st
was not a case of embczzlement Har-
| ris paid the woman before leaving the
| court room.
MINOR CASES.
Willie Williams. colored, assaulting
Shepherd Drumgold, colored; fined 81.
John Whitehurzt, colored, aiding and
abetting Williams to assault Drum
| Gold fined $780, 3.
jamie Banks. colored, profanity; fined
$3.50.
Sam Boyd, alias Steamboat Sam, col
ored, larceny; held for further exaInina-
| ton. fE
Pearl Craig. colored, suspected of at
tempting highway robbery; dismissed
| Dink Breedlove, alias Henneberry
alias Mason, feloniously assaulting
George James. colored; discharged, The
accused not being the right party
John Anderson, colored. suspected OF
larceny; discharged.
Carrie Sinclair. colored, assaulting Ed.
| Williams. colored, and unlawful tres
pass; dismissed.
| Jennie Owen, colored. unlawful tres
pass and destroying property belonging
| to Henrietta Green, colored; dismissed
The case of James Edwards, alias
| English, colored, charged with robbing
Mrs. Coleman. did not come up in the
| Police Court yesterday, the lady not
appearing to prosecute the case.
WIFE BEATIuR ARRESTED.
Alonzo Norman. colorcd. of Berkeley,
was arrested in Norfolk yesterday upon
| the charge of beating his wife, Mary
Norman. He was bniled by Justice Dali
ton In the sum of $40 for his appearance
before Mayor Mccoy. of Berkeley this
morning.
| PROPERTY TRANSFERS.
]. L. Hubbard, special commissioner to
c. e. Townsend three lots with i'm
provements on Wake street, s3,450.
c. d. Cake to the city of Norfolk, q
strip of land on the south side of Bran.
bleton avenue ten feet wide, beginning
at Il point distant 113 feet southeasterly
from the southeastern intersection OF tho
old lines Of Bramblcton and Kelly ave.
nues and extending $50 feet; S24S.06.
Mrs. George j. Taylor to Rudolph S
Cohn. a lot with Improvements on the
cast side Of Botetouyt street. near Free
mason; $1,000.
SUITS ENTERED.
| Norfolk Virginia Peanut company VS.
Mayer s. Co., in assumpslt, damages
| $500.
LICENSED TO MARRY.
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