The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-22
JUSTICE JOHN
is MORTIFIED.
An Acquaintance Touches Him in a
Tender Spot.
ACCUSED OF BEING HARD ON BOY
A White Girl Dismissed from Charae
of Threatening 10 Shoot n Cheap
Man-Thc Evidence in Several
Cases is Much Mixed.

Justice John was in a grave MOOD on
the bench Yesterday He received a let
ter from an acquaintance crlticlslhs the
justice OF his court and his dtclslVia.
A boy was in the Police Court lew
days ago and was lined ior ,hlon,n nS
rocks at a negro womans mousse anu
her chickens Justice JOnn was unusu-
ally considerate of the boys. WINES
after witness testified against them alted
having been warned to be sure tnts'
were the boys They were hned TWO
dollars each With the evidence before
him he could not do less.
The father OF one OF the boys Wtote
the letter and Justice John was huit.
If he has any one weak place IN ms au-
minIstration of the law 1t - 10 be TOO
easy on boys. and he has been abused LOT
not Furnishing them sufficiently.
JUSTICE JOHN MORTIFIED.
He is touched in a tender place when
his decisions we're unkindly ana seNet,s.g
criticised. but to accuse him oil Deins
hard on a boy was ittls TOO muCh'
and his feelings we're hurt. ~
He was unusually quiet, ana MS JOKES
were few Culprits got on even more
easily than usual. s.,
with a big chew of tobacco bulging our
her cheek, and dressed in much solleo
tawdry fur and feathers TO answer 70 1ne
charge OF threatening to shoot Ally Wits
The only witness in the case was threat
ened with jail If he did not get OUT on
town at once and the girl was severely
chided for picking out such mseraole
specimen 20 shoot. She swore she never
had a pistol and all hands were bundled
out Of court without ceremony.
l<EAT THE RECORD.
Thomas Wood may not make living
by his wits, but his tongue has twice
saved him from jail in two days. Up LOT
being drunk yesterday he put up a goou
plea and got off. This morning he was
back doubly dilapidated and covered WIN
the slime Of the gutter from head 10 foot
His chances against confinement We're
very slim until he got a chance 10 tank.
He plead that his old enemy overlook
him while waiting for a freight train, ana
If the Judge would let him off this one
time. he would not wait for a freight
train but would walk out OF town
His sentence was contained in the one
word walk, accompanied with a thlr-
-,-n ,h uown anu nOmas walked,
after having made a record Of out-talk-
ing Justice John twice in succession.
LAMPS IN MUD HOLES.
Edward Iverson, colored. was charged
with driving on the sidewalk. JusuCe
John had been laying for case OF thls
character for a week on which to base
| a lecture on bad streets, and what ne
said will make the ears Of the Street Com
| mittee burn for a week
He said they put red lamps in the mid
die Of the streets in his neighborhood 10
keep people from getting lost In the holes.
Emma Walker. colOred, was lined ten
| dollars for throwing a lighted lamp az
Phil Johnson. The amount OF perjury IN
| the Testimony of this case would damn a
regiment. Justice John approaching that
| the after punishment for this onence was
| severe and despairing Of the mightlness
| Of the truth TO prevail in Chinch Bottom
YEARLY pronounced the above sentence
J and Emma went down for sixty days.
SWIFT WITNESSES.
Another case OF mixed testimony was
| encountered in the case of Grandson
| Smitn cOlOTed. charged with cutting John
| Smith. his brother-in-law, with knife.
| John Smith was in court and his head
looked a huge ball Of cotton half-picked,
! and his jaw was as big as "A pillow with
| cotton dressing confined by big strips OF
Court-plaster. He looked as II he had
been in a railroad accident and just es-
capped alive. The sufferer got Out the
| warrant against Grandson Smith but on
the stand he swOre his wife hit him with
| n pitcher and that Grandson was not TO
blame. lie said his wife was his only
| support and he hoped nothing would be
| DONE
1t appeared in evidence that John Smith
| is an habitual wife-beater and twice an
eX-cOnvct. The case was postponed 20
| get Smiths wife as a witness, and il there
| Is anything in signs the future looks blue
| for John Smith.
A FAMILY ROW.
| Alice Whue. COlOred, sixteen years old
| beat Helen Garrett, aged eight, said the
| charge in the warrant. The Garnet family
| said she didn't and the White family
swore she did and Justice John sized it
| up as a family row among children and
ran them all out OF court.
| Mamie Gentry IS a delicate. lily Of the
! valley looking young girl living with her
mother on the fourteen hundred square
| of Franklin street. She was charged
with using profane and abusive language
| on the street The officers evidence was
emphatic, and she paid a fine from the
| glove Of a fragile alabaster-like hand
| Isaiah Turner. colOred. whose sins
| against temperance are as many as the
| promises of a politician, went through
| the formality of appearing at the bar
| and was promptly returned as one Of the
| regular bcarders at the Jail.