The age-herald., 1897-10-12
HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN
Fights, DrunkS, Cutting and
 Shooting Scrapes.
LITTLE WIDOW AND WATCH
Mary Jackson Came Back to Life and Reliey- ed Lizzie Woods of the Charge of
 Murder-A Long Docket.

All "Coontown" seemed to be in the police court yesterday morning, and the mingled odors were almost overpower- Ing Talleyrand is credited with a saying to the effect that @ woman Is at the bot tom of every trouble in this weary world, and yesterdays cases in the police court Justified his dictum.
 A little widow named Mrs. Miller was instrumental in keeping her brother-in- iaw' c. w. Murphy, in jail for the past ten days, in causing Pawnbrolxer E. Wald a bad quarter of an hour on the witness stand in consuming an hour of Judge Feagfn's time
 she charged Murphy with embezzling her gold watch, which turned out to be goldflled only, but as ladies are allowed to make mistakes about their ages they may be excused for errors in descrip- tton of jewelry. Murphy said she had given it to him to pawn as she could not pay for her board, and he had lost the ticket. She denied this and claimed
 
 that she had loaned 1t to him to use when he was on probation as a motor man.
 Then the pawnbroker was dragged into the controversy, and he also de- veloped very defective memory. He could not remember who had pawned the watch with him, did not know whether it had been redeemed by some one or sold by him, and had no idea whether he gave the surplus to the form- CT owners of forfeited pledges or sold 1t for more than ths loan and interest. ' Judge Feagin continued the case for more testimony and Murphy had to re- tire to the close quarters provided for him by his sister-in-law.
 Lizzie Woods, pretty mulatto wear ing crushed strawberry waist. crimson riding hat with tartan band and a self satisfied smirk was charged with using insulting language towards a yellow negress named Mary Jackson. Several other black damsels swore that the two ladies' had abused each other, so Liz zie was fined s2.5O and $S1O costs.
 Thereby hangs a strange story. Lizzie cursed Mary because shs found her and Tom Ellis, Lizzie's beau, in a compro- missing position. Next day she forgaye her unfafthful lover, who is a big buck negro and married him. A few days later the newly married pair encounter ed Mary at a negro ball, and at sight of her Lizzie's jealousy fared up and she called Mary an unprintable name. The frail Mary does not deny that the epi- thet filled her case, but hints that Liz- zle was in no position to apply it. so re- piled in kind. Then Lizzie carved her with knife and was arrested on a charga of murder, her rival in Toms affections being given up for dead.
 However, Mary recovered, and the charge aga1n1t Lizzie was changed to assault with @ deadly weapon. which let aler oult on bond. On that charge she will be tried in the criminal court.
 
 herself, who is named Henry Wright, Last Saturday, night he felt exceedingly good and tried to advertise the fact by discharging his revolver. He euc- ceeded bebter than he intended, for the shots drew Officer Hamilton to the scene, whereupon Henry spiinted for his Elaza s house, Hamilton after him. Through the house ran the celebrant, dropping his re- volver in 'the rear yard and disappearing in the outer darkness. neighbours Iat- tile girl found the pistol, and Eliza claimed it. The fuss which ensued over Its ownership reached the ears of Ham, ilton, who gathered in Eliza and the pistol, charging her With Interfering with an officer in tbe discharge of his duty-
 She did not deny the material faos, but Judge Feagin said that he did not see how ithe hiding of an unidentified pistol could be construed into interference with an officer, so Eliza was discharged on her recognizance until an opinion upon the point of law can be obtained from the cBty aTtorney.
 win Hagood is 95-year-old negro with a 2O-year-old wife named Julia. a badly slashed throat and a mangleY1 harFd. The cuts are indirectly the lrandt- work of the wife. She broke her mar rtage VOWS with 1S-year-old Sonny Me- Elroy. Will objected, so Sonny tried to overuule his objections with a razor, cutting him three times in the neck. If the razor had gone quarter of am inch deeper, Wdll would have been silent for ever. All that happened Saturday night. Yesterday morning Sonny was fined $50 and 30 days for carrying concealed weap- ons, and committed on a charge of mur- derous assault. Julia was sent ito tho county jail for ten days, to be held as witness and charged with adultery as tfesop,7ry tg,.a xaI cbArD Yt. eyot axxar.