The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-22
SQUIRE L0NNIE'S
DANGEROUS SMILE
EIoquence Loses Its Sweetness on
the Desert Air,
THIEF WOKE THE WRONG MAN.
\ Negro Excursionist With Foreign
Bill or Exchange for Thirteen
Pounds Stcrling-Young White
Man Convicted for Stealing.
THIEF WOKE THE WRONG MAN.

Squire LOnnlc Graves 0Hihc - "N'f'
two dollars and half 10 say nothing
Of the costs.
The oratorical inebriate thinks he has
a soft thing in Squire Ionnie. wakes
eloouent and is delighted at the sympa-
tbetlc look of the quiet man with the curl
upon his forehead. and winds mp his tale
of woe with confident afr.
Then comes the gentle smile. and in
voice only heard by the keen ears Of the
sergeant and the prisoner at the bar
Squire Lonnle drops the remark, Two
and a half" and the eloquent ineeriate
returns to the pen as disguised as a de-
fcited politician.
'souire Ionnie IS very serious on the
bench and his smile is dangerous
GENTLE JUSTICE.
Softly flowed the current OF justice ID
tho Police court yesterday. a small
but select audience lent countenahce 10
the dispeusauons Of the law.
40 parrish scenes or unseemly disturb
ance broke the peace and quietude OF the
duties of the day.
There were no passionate outbreaks, no
women weeping for lost regulations ana
no defiance of the law.
All was order and the proceedings were
as solemn as the comforting OF the seventh
degree in the Imperial Lodge OF the sons
of Zebedee.
Lying was the chief characteristic or
the witnesses. AN of whom pfefaced thcir
statements with the announcement tn"t
they were going to tell the Ga"ds uuH
about it,
Charles McClcland. colored Do the we
sma hours abstracted a box containing l
quarts OF butter-beans FROM the cart ol
sam Allen. tiller of the soil of Hanover.
Sam was sleeping in his cart al me OIl
MARKET with one eye open and saw tine
man. take Che beans bat the other eye
was SO droWsy that the man got away
before sam could get both eyes open.
CAPTURED HIS MAN.
Sam. how ever. took his station I'm the
coming tower of his cart and in a shovt
while the thief returned lie jumped out
and grasped the robber bold and held him
manfully TN a policeman came.
The old man told with an air Of pride
how, being a rather stouush man, though
old he held the prisoner against the most
violent struggles.
lie stuck out his breast with a JACK
Sales sort of air and put his head on one
ana altogether gave the impression that
IF any thieUng Richmond Niger took
him TO be q SLOUGH he just woke up the
wrong man.
McCleland went TO Jail for ninety days.
". n. Boiling. colored. was charged
with assaultng and beating Rosa owens
TIlly Moshy was witness, but she could
not be found. The air of innocence on
the faces of accuser and accused was In.
dicative of nxed-up case.
Rosa swore the warrant mad been got.
ten ont against the wrong man. Squire
Graves threatened to send both to jail
for lying. but seeing no profit TO the State
drove them from the presence of the court
with lashes Of scOrn.
CIRCUMsTANTIAL EVIDENCE
Jacob Powell. coored, charged with cut
ting Julia Marshall. had also arranged
similar programme. julia swore there
was n mistake and that they were only
playing The cut on Juiia's hand was two
weeks old and not yet healed. This was
evidence substantial ana Jacob went
down I'm default of s. fine.
Chas. Evans. alias Early Evans,
Washington city colOred eXcursiOnist. was
charged with beating Celia Buchanan.
The prosecutor failed TO appear and
"stun0d" witness told tale of injured
More lying Numbered Squire Graves IN
his well known stcntorian tones and the
Washington dude trembling with terror
at the herceness o. his mien. skunk INFO
the pen TO await the appearance Of the
fair leila on another day.
BILL OF EXCHANGE.
Charles showed great perturbation
which may possibly be due TO a bin OF
exchange found on his person.
The bin is for thirteen pounds sterling
drawn by the Riggs National Bank of
Washington. ID. g.. on J. ). Morgan *
Co.. London. I'm favor Of Hattie u. Shaw
en- Chas. Evans claimed 10 have picked
10 up on the street I'm Washington.
The bin has never been endorsed or
used
James Everett young man Of good mp
pearaucc. was charged with stealing a
bicycle from Jas IT.. Rowlett. The whe
was taken from the hallway Of 1105 east
Main street
Everett lives on Church Hi. and
claimed 10 have gotten the wheel from
friend. The officer who arrested him
testified that Everett confessed to him
that he took the wheel lie went down
for Sky days
Elizabeth Mason was fined $3.50 Tor us
ins indecent language on the street and
two or three inebriates went the way OF
.m ha e.,