The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-09
IN THE WHIRL OF
SIN AND CRIME.
The Police Court an Eddy in the
Stream Of Life.
ROUND OF THE SAME OLD GANG
The Record OF Day is Speaking les
timony of the Source of Crime I'm
Richmond-Threc Cases Sent
to the Grand jury.

The Police Court is an eddy in Rich
mond's stream OF life. and sooner or later
1t draws within its current the wrong.
doors that hoat upon the tide. They
sometimes only touch its outer current
and make whirl on its outer edge, and
IL they are good they may yet hoat away
happy horest and useful. but II they
still tura t. sin and crime just so surely
VIII thoy be caught In the narrowing
circle and be swept into the maelstrorr
Of misery that is the penalty for wrong
doors.
SAME OLD SET.
There are an old set that go round ant
ronnI swirl and strike and sink out OF
sight in the muddy waters Of the jail
boo up again. and but and grind In the
debris Of the bank. and once more 20
wl.ir.iHs on in the eddy whose sdck-hoe
Is the Police Court and whose watcher
is Justice John.
Said the great dispenser of justice yes.
terday Take away one hundred and
fifty OF the old regulars from the Police
Court and the business would drop OF
one half" And this is the penalty that
tho good have to pay for the bad.
WHERE CRIME is RIFE.
Anyone who reads these reports will
see thar nearly all Of those who requirs
the restraining hand of the law are black
The police grow eloquent when talking
of the growth Of recklessnoss and mean
ness and crime Of the rising generation OF
negroes. Let the record OF day speab
for itself Here II IS:
Geo. Hlx. colored. Of Manchester, raised
4 row with Conductor Sydney Tinsley on
electric car No. 12i. OF the Richmond
and Manchester line; cursed the oonduc-
tor. and when put off the car for bad
behavior at the Richmond end 81 tho
bridge. picked up q brick 20 brain him.
Car men and citizens testified that
there was constant disorder on this limo
IN the early morning hours by negroes
coming from Manchester 10 Richmond.
and that the car men were In repeated
danger Of assault. and that something
was necessary TO protect the men from
danger.
George Xix was fined $50. and In default.
was sent TO Jail for six months.
MIGRANTS
JOS. Gadson. y. Jackson and Chas.
Johnson. colored Migrants. were found
in a vacant house Each gave different
State as his residence. All were sent &c
the chain gang for thirty days.
Alexander Brown, colored. for trespas,
on property not his own. was put under
bond OF 800.
Geo Foster IS n mulatto OF the washed
out type, with Wlie fNtpfoWs II" Sdh
he made his living picking up cinders.
But he was unable 10 discriminate be-
tween cinders on the ash pile and Jumps
of coal on a Chesapeake and Ohio car,
and he went 10 the rock pile for thirty
days.
RAN THEM IN.
officer Werner accosted Thos. Pearson
on the street at daylight this morning
with bag OF fish. oflcers Hulcher and
Kraft found the back door OF w. III.
Davis fish stand broken open. The on
GERS compared notes and as a consequence,
Thos Pearson and william Gilliot. two
bad negroes, went to the grand jury for
felony.
James Braxton colored. charged with
being a suspicious character. was pur
under bonds for three months and went
10 Jail.
SHOOTING sCRAPE
Thos. J. Dugan. charged with shooting
Nelson Sylvester in the leg with a pis-
toll Sunday night. March 10Th. was sent
10 the grand jury. II was shown that tho
negro was unduly familiar and that
Dugan was drinking.
Robt. n. Butler, a negro boy Of fifteen,
cut Arthur Brown. seven years old With
whip. nearly cutting or his chin. he
was fined s. and went 10 jail.
Jim Laird. colored. whose case was
was again taken up 10 answer the charge
OF stealing a set OF harness. He was sent
10 the grand jury.