The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-14
SuADRY MISDEEDS.
What Tramp Learned Yesterday
Of Various Breakers,

49, 1t is said that when a man wants q
drinkvery badly he is going to get It,
. whether he has the price OF not, auu many
I are the schemes on record which have been
i worked to that end.
ss Doub tless there have been Inany such
Gin Roanoke, but one worked by q man
& here a few days ago deserves special men.
Il ton. This man walked Into u store on
i Salem avenue aud asked to- see some
rings. They were laid out for him TO
examine and he finally selected one, but
suddenly remembered that he had been
I paid off that morning and had left all his
money with his wife, "You know my
wife, don't your he asked the clerk. The
: clerk said he did SWELL. then, charge
the ring to her aud will bring the money
lin this evening" This was satisfactory,
SO he took the ring aud went outside and
waited until he saw the clerk from whom
he had bought it go to supper. then he
went back and demanded his money for
"a ring he had bought and wished to re-
turn because his wife didn't like IT,"
The money was paid him and he went off
and got on nice little jag all by himself.
The desire of the proprietor of the store
to avoid mixing up with the police court
was all that kept the gentleman from be.
Ing put where no liquor is, but bars are
plentiful.
lieye the monotony of the police court
have occurred lately and one or two good
citizens are now paying the penalty of
their careless ways oil doing things they
ought not to do. For some time past
complaints have been coming in of re.
peated robberes Of n store kent by an
Assyrian in Northwest Roanoke In fact
he was about to he despoiled of his whole
stock in trade, and the police were asked
to help him to keep that which was his
own. AS result one Luke Edwards is
now in trouble. He is charged with steal
ing three watches, several hundred
pounds of feed and such other little
things of II like nature, which he was in
the habit of helping himself to, and of
which he always managed to disr ose of
before O'Clock on the night of the rob-
berry. MIR. Edwards occupied flat in the
commodious apartment house en- Com
merce street, across Church street from
the Lutheran church. Owing to the
height of the building it was feared that
he would Jump off the ver.nda and es-
cape. 1t was found that me was trying to
do that very thing, and Edwards probn-
bly, owes his life to the officer who pre-
vented him from jumping. The distance
is about five feet. He had sworn never
to be taken alive and may have preferred
risking his neck on the fire escape of his
w
apartment house is distressed to think
that he has been harboring II bad charac.
ter and fears that the reputation of his
flats may be injured. However, he need
give himself no further trouble on that
score.
Another good man gone wrong is our
friend, Frank c. Shade, politician, ward
healer and "almost any old thing'' He |
used to bail from the Fourth ward. He |
now halls from Sergeant Traynham's |
ward. Mr.. Shade was so ndiscreet rs
to purloin H. G.. Starkey's clock while
walking through that gentleman's office.
1t was sc evident that Shade had taken
the clock that Mr.. Starkey swore out a
warrant and had Shades apartments
searched. The clock was found and Shade
was fined SEQ and locked up for sixty
-days Whom asked wnere he got the |
clock he said that he bought it from a |
small boy who wanted bread, and even
went so far as to produce the boy The
boy said that Sha"e came up to him at |
the market and told him that hewas to
understand that he t.he Doy) had begged
hip,te bay Inc clock, and that .ha had
done so in order to enable him to buy
bread. The boy had not understood it
that way, and he had never seen the
clock, hence Shades trouble. 1t is pity
that Mr.. Shade should be thus removed