The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-28
KEEP OUT OF THE
POLICE COURT
There, Vice is a Monster of FrlghttuI
Mien, Indeed.
OFFENDERS COME IN SQUADS
The Great ID spenser Advises Against
Early Rising, fines Crap-Shooters Tor
Running aud Proposed TO Make
Liars Pay the City Debt.

As. TO be hated. needs but to be SEEM
Yet seen too oft. familiar with her face,
We first. endure, then pity, then embrace
The Police Court is a malestrom OF SIM
a good place to get justice when imposed
upon. and a good place to keep out Of.
II is a notable fact that some Of the
most frequent spectators in the Police
Court are often themselves behind the
bars.
The man who gets to meddllng about
other prisoners and making complaints
sooner or later is the subject of arrest
himself.
peopie who get in the habit Of making
charges against other folks will just as
surely be set in Judgment against heIh-
Many eyrate around the Police Court
as a moth flies around a gas light. once
their wings are singed, though lhey escape
maybe. with a warning and next a me
they return and come yet again, uhul inc
zen 10 the Jail are rheir habitat.
DOING ABOUT.
paoD'a came and went ln The Police
Court Yesterday like the audience at an
.i-l-flsh.oueI Methodist bush-meeiing. ani
Tine Offenders iu front OF the Sergeant 2
desk marched up and paid their nnes in
line ike citizens on the last day or grace
In the Gas Collectors office.
Justice John declared there was more
lying To- the square inch in the day s les
timony than DE had ever encountered in
his experience. and leaned back IN his
/ chair with the tired air of the clerk oi
. the Information bureau of a church COM
! venuon. .
Tile Great Dispenser declared he would
| inaugura,e a system of fines for lying
! and soon pay off the city debt.
The offenders against the peace ahd
di-nity of the Commonwealth came ln
! squads and answered 20 their names a.
| lhe roll was called like the night RELIEF al
The Second station.
George Booker. Emma Spurlock. WuIe
Wilson. julia and Matte Mason, LEILA
| Davis and Bette White were arraigned l0g
! creating q disturbance and fighting IN the
| street..
KNOCK Down AID DRAG OUT.
Tho officer said The incident occurred
| 40 4 o'clock I'm the morning. ana that IL
| uqs "a regular case OF kn0ck-dOwn and
| u.a--out.
Tile Great Dispenser advised The party
aca.nst carly rising. and fined them $50
! each. Some had money and some mad
| n8ue. Those without cash went TO the
! pen. dragging heavy feet behind them
: while those able TO pay sailed out TO
I freedom with a. swing Of the hips like a
| ship I'm n chcppy sea with the wind abeam.
Alice Triddy, colorcd, was cut IN the
! shoulder ana her dress was bloody from
the wound. She charged Rosa Minor with
! the attack. Rena Bailey swore that Alice
was fighting her and that Rosa want I'm
d.. The policeman testified that "an hands
were fighting. an hands billing drunk and
everybody was cut
Ten dollars each and six months In jail
was the verdict.
GOOD RUNNERS.
James Dickinson. Charles Folkes and
John Lawrence were charged with play.
ing craps. Sanitary officer Lumpkin dis
covered the gamblers, and. being a wary
bird himself and knowing the nimbieness
OF his game and the lightning transforma-
ton practice of turning a crap game into
a reading club. he made a dash into them
ike am unframed pointer into a flock Of
pdrtridgcs. The gamblers made a break
for liberty. The negroes each sw0re hat
be was not in the game, but Charles
Folkes ran into a house and jumped out
of q secOnd-story window. James Dick
enson jumped from a porch and John
Lawrence. not being quick enough, was
fast In the officers brawny clutches.
They were al fined $50 each FOR
running"
Another foot race was had by Odicer
Amos on Duval street. where q crowd Of
young negroes gather and make night
hideous. and dissolve into thin air when
Il policeman approaches. hurting sass at
h!m as they vanish.
A COUP.
officer Amos. who f. something OF a
Splinter. strOlled into the neighborhOod.
and the gang commenced their old tao
ties OF taUnting him. He cavelessly walk
ei as near as experience had or)yel he
could ever get. and then sprung into sud
den activity that placed him twenty yards
nearer the gang before they realized they
were in Tor a chase.
They quickly scattered. but Amos put
his eye on one of the largest Of the gang
ana stuck 10 him. through thick and thin.
twists and turns. lamp-light and shadow
and after a long and not chase. put his
outstretched hand in the back OF Richard
Smiths collar.
The negro paid a fine Of $3.50 for dis
turbance.
Wellington Gordon. coiored. struck J.
II. Eolnich with a rock. Wellington IS "a
small boy, ana Rolnich a white boy,
much smaller. Weilington's mother paid
a very hard-earned dollar, with costs.
for her bullet-headed son.
Sam jackson, cOlored, was q more ag-
gravated case. lie knocked Allen Thomp-
son. a very small white boy. of a fence
out OF pure cussedness. and went 10 the
pen IN default Of five dollars.
FAST IRVING.
Samuel Miller, colored. was driving a
delivery z through the street in John
Gilpln style. and paid ten dollars for
his experience.
\ cow, belonging TO Baby Fox, was
charged with being a street-walker. and
Baby came up smiling and bought her
for s..
Eddie Jones. colored. came from the
zen 20 answer the charge OF beating AMI
kicking Jennie johnson. The woman's
physician testified that she was In a
precarious condition. and Eddie went to
jail 10 avail results.
The crosFwarrants against Joseph Fer
nandes for cursing and abusing and
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