The times., 1899-12-30
ALEXANDRIA NEWS.


ALEXANDRIA, Dec. % George Nicholson ap-
peared before Mayor Simpson in the Police Court
| this morning. to answer charge Of cruelty treat
ing his ltjIe daughter, Nellie. The charge was
dismissed. Nr. Mceks the complainant, testified
| that Nellie Nicholson, who is nearly sixteen
| years old had frequently come 70 .his home and
complained to his wife that har father bad III
treated heT and iaG beaten her with a stick,
| iBGcting painful and al tifueS serious bruises;
| that Nicholson bad not properly clothed og fed
| ha daughter and chat botn be and his wife had
/ given the citild icod aud clothes and that when
! she had taken the clothes home ber father had
/ taken them away from aer and locked them up.
/ Robert Pitts corfobOHied The statements made
! by Mceks.
| The young girl, in her own behalf stated that
bier father had not beaten her Tor several months,
! but that she remembered that the last whipping
4 She had was very severe one. What she object
/ cd TO. she said, the fact that her father
wanted to send her 10 live with du aunt in
/ Rappabannock county, Va, and that aunt, she
| feared, would treat her cruelty. She said that
her father refused to allow her To leave the house
and that she wanted 10 reside in future with her
cousin, Mrs. AeekS, who had offered her home.
/ The mayor told her that she had reached the age
| when she allowed 10y law TO choose hcr own
guardian, and that il she did Hot like the treat
ment received at the hands OF her father she
| could appear before the Corporation Court and
| have a guardian appointed Mr.. Nicholson. who
! has once before appeared before the mayor the
! same charge, stated that he had NOT struck his
! child for several months, in fact, not since
| he had promised the mayor that he would not do
| so. lle said that his daughter had given him
/ considerable trouble by leaving the house when
! he was away from home; that he feared she did
/ not keep good company and that he objected to
/ some of her companions because they were older
than she is. He wanted TO have her placed in a
! reform school, he said After summing up the
/ evidence, and finding nothing to show that the
| child had been beaten for several months, since
| the father was directed to stop H. the mayor dis
missed the case ana told the girl again that the
! law allowed her guardian if She wanted one and
! that IN such event her father would have 10 sup
port her.
The child left the court room and went to her
+ fathers home Nr Nicholson, who is milk
man, went out ha route this afternoon as
usual When he returned he found that Nellie
/ was missing Becoming alarmed he hastened 10
Mayor Simpson. To the mayor he stated that he
feared his daughter had done herself bodily
harn, as, he stated, she had once or twice threat
ened 10 do away with herself Mr. Nicholson
I seemed much disturbed over the disappearance
/ Of his daughter and wanted the police to find
her II possible. Policeman Ferguson was detailed
ON the case. and after search be located her at
/. the home OF her cousin, Mrs Meeks where il
/ 10 understood she viii remain Tor the present
hT. Nicholson, II is stated would not go TO
/ the MeeEs home after his daughter, but stated
/ that she could come home il She wanted to. lie
states that his great anxiety is that the child be
! properly raised that she has caused him a great
deal OF trouble since her mothers death eight
ans ago, and he wants his sister to take her to
( raise.
George Parker appeared before Mayor simpson
! IN lhe lollce Court this morning charged with
! being drunk and disordeTly. luasmueh as he had
just been released from jail after serving sen
tence for the same offence the mayor concluded
that few days on bread and water would do him
! good Parker was locked up st police head
| quarters and will be given a loaf Of bread and
all the water he can drink, daily for week
| Walker Wa'hington, colored was released from
diet
The Masons Of Alexandria have been engaged
tonight in eating the hamper Of English game
According to the remarks Of the people who are
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