Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-09-29
And the Unsubstantiated Evil
dence OF GREASY" Neal.
sWEARs TO MANY THINGS
Declares That He Was OF, red $40 and ;,
Suit of Clothe to Beat a Constable and
Justice of che Peace. His
Vitlo,s Il Indignation.
ma sistra'te's life in

The lines of a magistrates life in
b1oodfield are not east in pleasant
places, IS those Who have tried It,
kHCw.
The colored justice of the peace Over
there. Charlie Robinson, is gradually
discovering the fact.
The latest Ivy Avenue sensation in
fact is the development of a scheme on
the part Of some of the magistrates
enemies 70 wipe the earth UP With him
10 such an extent that he will never
be any more good as a justice of the
peace
The plot. i, is alleged also includes
the doing up Of Constable c. B. Ed
wards
IN fact, Charlie claims to have IN
earthed a regular conspiracy for the I'M
doing of his court.
tWlnS to the peculiar nature of the
proof (so-called). the details of this al
legged conspiracy have not been made
public, as it involves a number of
well-known people and the only state
ment of evidence in support Of the
charge is made by 4 negro Of question
able character and doubtful veracity.
Nevertheless, the magistrate does not
hesitate to believe what he says
The negro in question is James Neal,
alias Greasy an individual who has
spent most of his life IN bar rooms ana
jai!s. and whom no one ever before sus-
pected of telling the truth.
Greasy came to Constable Edwards
with a tale so startling that that Off
Ger believed it. Knowing Greasy" so
We'll. he was certain a specimen of his
low order of mentality could not have
invented it,
The Information was forthwith i'm
parted 70 Magistrate Robinson, who
also believed il and had Greasy" ar
rested nstanter. Greasy doubtless
considered it hard luck that he should
have been arrested for being virtuous,
nut the magistrate. believing that he
had discovered Greasy in possession
OF the truth, did not propose to permit
him to escape With such a valuable ar
ticle concealed about his person
1ncarcerated in the car-famed Lucy
Coleman, and feeling very much at
nome there. Greasy" put his statement
into the form of an affidavit which he
signed With a His Mark and let i
go at that.
In this affidavit he said that he had
peen offered 80 and a suit of clothes
- So y DIS StlSh, : cut some DARK
night. and beat Robinson and Edwards
SO badly that they wouldn't be able 70
50 on duty again for months Having
completed r;lis little jon, Greasy vas
10 skip the town and return no more,
or not until the clouds had rolled by.
Greasy says he refused the JOS
WITH virtuous indigna lion, (and, he
might have added. With a wholesome
fear of Constable Ed wards revolver),
and said he wouldn't do it for twenty
suits OF clothes
The proposition. Greasy swore. was
made 10 him several times, and eacn
time refused
But. swcars Greasy" While on his
way 10 klondike on September II 10 al
tend swell function in that frisil Vi
cinity. and being in company Of a bcy
named Toaeh. Long" Lizzie Byrl and
one April Robinson, of unsavory re-
pute and fame exceedingly ill., he to d
of the offers that had been made him.
Then spoke up April and said said
he. Take me to the man what made
You the proposition. TIL do this job
says he. for the $50 and I wont ask
for the suit OF clothes,'' he said
And Greasy" virtucusly refused to
DO the bad mans bidding
Virtuous Greasy
With visions OF mutila;ed ma gistratos
and consta'bles squelchsd beneath huge
biudgeons. Justice Charlie instructed
Police officer Williams 10 find April
Robinson and fetch him within the nur-
iieus of his court
April was found in one of his accus-
toned haunts and generally charged
with being a nuisance. was bound over
TO keep the peace for 4 space
When last heard from. GREASY" was
still in martyred DURANGO.
And here. the case Tor the present
rests X"