Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-09-17
Describes Society on the Other
Side of the Track.
RATHER COSTLY EXPERIENCE
Does Not Always Pay to Appeal Case.
Three Corner.d Match. The Will
llams @ .se. Jumped on the
Cars. A Strange Girl.

yesterday with mistlemeanor business
exclusively. but the session was not uli-
interesting; for at one stag" Of it
CURED Incident that WAS in itself
:, whole show +
II was during the trial Of the case OF
Mrs. Godsey, fined 81 and costs in the
justice court for using language toward
4 man calculated to cause a breach Of
the peace. The star witness was Il typ
zeal old time negro who. by some
strange dispensntion Of providence, has
drifted TO Rockets. She is a neighbour
Of the accused and testified as TO the
conduct of beth the defendant and the
complainant and also of the population
over ION the other side" generally, in
terms which for picturesque colorirs
and graphic emphasis surpassed any
thing ever heard in the court. The VIII
ness took care TO inform the jury that
she Wa: "a spectacle married oonlaE."
and did not trot in the same class with
the rest Of the population OF that sec
ton. She rather more than animated
that they We're too fast for her. ana
the lives of eats and dogs popularity
supposed TO be perturbeu and stormy,
are as peaceful Gains compared With
the social conditions which she describ
ed as existing there.
The jury found the woman guilty,
thus sustaining The decision Of the low
er court.
II. l2idder was placed on trial chars
ed With interfering With an officer He
had been fined $3.50 in the Police Court
and appealed. This appeal business is
sometimes costly una tier. as Ieidder
found out, for the jury gave him just
SIS.
Ann iWoolfenden was charged Win
selling liquor on Sunday and had been
|y,. ,,11 ,ff.. NO Or.
lice CuurtA She appeared in the CO.
poration Court yesterday and said one
of her main witnesses was absent.
SHE however paid the fine, Which was
so and costs
THE afternoon was taken up With a
civil case in which Mr.. A. c. PeachE
was the only witness heard. The *,
torneys in uhe case Mere Mr.. {. (.
Berkeley and MIR. T. J. Christian, II
MIR. Peachy is also connected with the
case in one OF its phases as an attorney.
ana While he was on the stand there
was pretty ee-cornered spayl'ins
match between the three.
TIT. OTHER WOMAN.
The DAILY Press was in error in stat
ing That sM:lbe! Sinclair was sending
meals TO Ten Bates, in the jail. 1t is
thu. woman Who Mabel testified wanted
to kill Hsen-t>nnie West. Ben. writ
ing asking that the correction be made,
states that he would not eat anything
Gabel We're to send him.
THE. WILLIAMS CASE.
Counsel for Richard Williams, the
doomed murderer. have not decided Yet
whether they will make and appeal
for a he wtral to the Court OF
Appeals ,sr invoke the aid of Governor
Tyler in saving the prisoners ne2k.
Speaking of the case yesterday
Attorney W. L. Hi!yer, who is associa-
led with Attorney r. Is. Semlnes in
Williams behalf, stated that he would
look up tho law ii: the case and deci le
whether or not an appeal would be tax
en-. a decision will probably be reach
ed on Monday.
u is believed that the chances arc
against :in appeal although it is posi-
Bile that an attempt Will be made TO
stay the execution.
The scafrod on which Williams Will
go to his end. in the event nothing m
tcric,es. Will probably be c-nmplecafl
this week 1t Will be tested as soon
as finished and again on the day Of the
execution, before the hour set for the
hanging.
There will be large demand for
tickets of admission To the Jail grounds;
on the dav of the execution but the
majority Of those making application
for them will be disappointed. An even
100 passes will be printed and is
sued and only that number CT persons
will be permitted to view the execution.
MUST GET OFF 2STH STREET..
The police are determined to keep
Twenty-eighth street, between the rall-
read ard Warwick avenue, clear of
women Of i'll repute. FOR several Years
fallen women have managed from time
10 time to engage rooms over saloons
on that thoroughfare. The police have
laidcd the places frequently and for q
time it was believed that the women
had been driven away. but Ida Crutch-
field was arrested on the charge CT
maintaining a house of i'll fame and har
case vast tried in the Police Court yes
terday The evidence against her was
strong; and she will probably be reuui:-
ed to get off Twenty eighth street.
which is the nl9st extensively traversed
thoroughfare leading from the heart Of
the city through to East End.
The police have obtained the womans
history. She was convicted in Roa-
ncke of keeping a house of i'll fame,
according to the police advices from
that city, and when she first came here
the police learned enough of her con-
duct to require her to leave the reSpec-
table neighborhood in East END, where
she took house. Later she went to
Rockets and one day it became known
that she tried the laudanum nNuta TO
the other world. Recently she moved
to Twentv-eighth street and there the
police found her With two other women
Salle Sprdrlse and Stella Harris. The
former testified that she came he"n
at dfreputable house and the latter
at disrepptabie house, and the latter