The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-05-07
RAZZLE DAZZLE
FOR THE DOCTORS
Justice John Gives a Pointer to a New
Arrival.
AMBULANCES MAY GO AT SPEED.
They are Furnished by the CITY and
Come High. and People Must Give
Them Full Swing or Suffer
the Consequences.
AMBULANCES MAY GO AT SPEED,

The Police Court yesterday was crowd
I'd 10 Inconvenience. The Great Dispenser
Of Justice was in the pink of condition
and spun of law faster than No. Fire
Company reels off hose at a Cary street
IRE.
The new ambulance doctor was on hama
FOR his first case before the Car OF all
the Americans from the wave-washed
shores Of button 10 the rock-ribbed sldes
OF the Ice Monument, and he gave him
q great. biz razzle dazzle about always
being on time. as IS his way, and then
gave a decision that made the man OF
medical hon0rs think he was great
sTIRs THE BLOOD.
Nothing stirs the stagnant blood or
Richmond Ike the clang OF IT'S hospltai
ambulances aud everything must climb
on top Of am electric car or vanish ia
Thin air when they come along win q
high stepping horse and two handsome
young doctors holding on like cookie burs
10 the rear seat.
Justice John decided that the ambulance
has tho right OF way over everything IN
the street animate or nominate, and
that he will SEQ that they have though
Tho heavens fall
Last Friday the ambulance answered
n call TO the Gallcgo Mills where man
was badly hurt. and ran into q LeXing-
ton Laundry wagon turning into the al
ley on Twelfth street in rear OF the
hotel and smashed the rear of the laun-
dry vehicle.
FAST DRIVING.
II. l., Noisz. the ambulance driver was
charged by S L. Atkinson with fast
driving Neisz claimed that the curl
osity Of tho laundry-wagon driver caus-
cd him 10 back into the street after he
had turned his wagon into the alley IN
order 10 see what was going ON, and that
he threw his own horse in his effort to
stop him from running into the laundry
wagon.
The laundry driver stated that the
sound Of the gong and the collision were
almost simultaneous, and that he did not
back out Of the alley.
Tho Great Dispenser decided that the
evidence was conflicting. tho city paid
heavily TO support its ambulance SER
vice that the vehicle was always on
urgent calls often TO save life, and that
. human life was worth more than a
wagon and they must keep out of the
way
The case was dismissed.
HATTIES PREDlCAMENI
Hattie Abrahams. white, answered the
charge or being drunk and asleep on lhe
sidewalk and repealed the base lnsinua-
ton. But she could not account for be
Ing barehoaded and having on only one
shoe and a general air OF dissolution.
She was sent down for fifteen days TO
recuperate.
The two countorfciters whose story is
told elsewhere in these columns. answer
ed TO the names of George and Charles
Semesat and Emile FazH. the woman
accompanying them 90 tho charge OF be-
Ing suspicious character
A number of persons who had taken
the coin I'm trade were present as wit
nesscs. After consultation with the Com
monwealths Attorney the two men were
turned over 10 United States Marshall
Treat for examination
A LITTLE CHAFF.
The Great Dispenser chaned the Unit
ed States officers smartly for coming IN
10 get the prisoners after the city po-
lice had worked mp the case and made
the arrests. lie gave homily on state
RIGHTS. and claimed that the state had
mn jurisdiction in the matter and that
A. was only matter of courtesy to
turn them over.
Ed Beasley answered the charge OF be-
ing a common vagrant He was given
won, for thirty days on the rock pile.
Fd smith. on the same charge. went