Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-29
BEFORE JUDGE JOHN.
Interesting Cases Tried in the Polio,
Court Yesterday Morning.

Court Yesterday Morning.
F. ). Fulcher and G. C. Angle were
Involved in a dispute on the street
1 when Attorney E. S. Robinson, hear
| ing the violent abuse F'ulcher was
IShoWering upon Angle, interfered. Full
cher declining to accept the interven-
ton OF the lawyer. directed some choice
n1aledictioEs at him and renewed his
1.abuse of Angle. who is his brother-in-
raw. whereupon Mr.. Robinson called
cher on the charge of disorderly con-
4 duct. At the station Eulcher swore
| out warrant charging his brother-in-
law with having enticed Carrie Fulcher,
his 13-year-old daughter, from her home
and unlawfuly OBTAINING her.
| The case was aired in Judge Johns
|court yesterday. Fulcher declared
| that it was the intention OF the Angles,
| with whom the little girl has been liv-
ing for the past year, to send her to
| Richmond to live a life of shame
| Angle denied that his wife or himself
had any sinister designs against the
| girl. He said his brother-in-law had
a sked him to take charge of little Car
RE and that he was providing for his
! niece because he did not consider her
father a fit person to have charge Of
her. Fulcher admitted that he had
voluntarily surrendered the girl to An
lyle year ago. Recently, however, he
! had been told that a woman of bad
i
and had taken her away on that ac-
count. Angle offering no objection and
lackno Wiedging that the house was not
a fit place for her to be in while the
Objectionable party was on his prem
iSes.
Later on. however, when the woman
to whom Fulcher had objected left the
| house. little Carrie yielded to the i'm
| pcrtunties of her aunt and uncle and
returned to their house. Witness said
4 fta1 ,r, hncr inf, -,
would leave for Richmond this after
moon to join her Maynard sister unless
Intercepted.
Angle admitted that u woman of bad
reputation had been living at his house.
| but said she was there no longer. He
wanted to keep the little girl in order
to protect her from her father.
| Several witnesses testified to the good
chai acter of Fulcher. Justice Brown
questioned the girl as to the charges
er by her uncle. She acknowledged
that she had never received a whipping
from her father in all her life. She
preferred living with her uncle, because
her father some times drank ,
Both sides asked to be allowed to pro-
duce witnesses and in order. to SECURE
the testinnony5of these witnesses HIS
IFionor continued the case
Rev. Dr. Thos j. MacKay, who
knows something of the parties involv-
lquest Of F1ulcher
| "A THEATER SCRAP.
Loretta Clifford and May st. Clair.
Isoubrettes who sing home and mother
songs at the Biiou Iheater. played an
management in Judge Johns courr
yesterday. Thomas W. Mack, com
edlan, was also on the bill. Mack is
the stage manager of the variety hall.
Ibis Honor having cleared the days
docket Of the bulk of flotsam and jet
IN hot had
Ipollce channels, gave the Bijou trio the
centre OF the stage. The sketch was
disappointing in a great measure to the
large audience that had assembled in
me expectation of witnessing some
thing stirring The dialogue was not
scintillant with bon-mots and seemed
forced, while the business lacked
JUNCTION. u
"Fommie had been drunk for
week. your honor" Miss Clifford be-,
gan ''IIe threatened to fine me for
nothing. said I was going to tell Mis-.
Dwyer on him if he did. Then he punch
cd me in the eye. Mrs Dwyer is the
lady that owns the theater." a.
The witness displayed an optic badly
blacked and swollen.
II fined her for roasting Miss ST.
Clair." said the stage manager cit IS
one of the rules Of the house that a
performer speaking i'll Of another per-
former shall pay fine at the discre-
ton Of the stage manager. Miss Cliff
ford had been roasting Miss st. Cha ir,'
Miss St. Clair took small part in the
act. She stated that having heard "a
racket in the room occupied by Miss
Clifford she had gone there. She saw
the stage manager strike Miss Clifford
in the eye. The shock so upset her del
a icate nervous system that she fell into
a fit on the floor.
Officer O'Hara, who arrested the
three in Miss CNfford's room at the BIZ
Jou Theatre Sunday morning about 1
O'Clock, said his attention had been
drawn to the affair by the screams ST
the women. He was standing at the
I'd corner Of West avenue and TWENTY
third street, when the noise Of the dis
turbar nee reached his ears. In Miss
Cnhoro's room he found Miss st. C.air
l!sWoonlng away. while Miss Clifford
and the stage manager were engaged in
an alteration. The woman had a black
eye. which she told him she had re-
lceived from Mack.
The justice imposed a tax Of s1250 on
+ the. manager and released the SOU
l.bTettes. .4
Other cases disposed of are as fol-
y lows: . a.
ERNEST Smith, drunk: Aned 50 and
costs. =.
) William Mason, drunk; fined 81 and
5 W. e. Newton, maintaining nuis-
ance; assessed SO and costs.
Z Geo. T. Thompson. same; fined So and
costs. Sss
Geo. Jones, drunk: fined So and costs.
H. NC abe. trespass: dismissed
H. ~ Needles. drunk; fined 81 and
; costs. :. !,
A. w. Parker, drunk; fined So ana
costs. as q.
John Martin, disorderly; fined So and
t costs. s.
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