The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-29
JUSTICE JOHNS
AT SEASH0RE
Squire Lonnie Graves Does the Honors
in the Police Court,
HAS TO DEAL WITH THE JONESES
A Case Comes Up from Black BYRD
Island Illustrating Certain Social
KtlcS in That Locality - n
Pitchfork aud Knife.

1us,ice John took q rest yesterday
from his oncrous iabors and squire
1oorie Graves occupied the bench While
III. Great Dispenser was sporting Ia '"'
br.ny along With sunday school PIC
mic I'd Ruckroo Bcach.
Everything passed off just as nice a.
81 De was there and mo result OK inc
,oreinrs showed that there was an o'o
hand 40 the bellows. .,.
,rNsre was "A marked difference IN inc
crowd however There are lots Oh f.'
nie who think there IS only one
H. Insfiec on earth. and many of them
f,If,uef him as church members "'
80, thair pastor goes TO hll uiolheI
,.oloff and the aud. cncc looked as sum
Methodist congregation on the sun
dav the Presiding Elder comes Z"
mo Jones' arc the bette noir OF the
Great Dispenser. and hearing that an
other OF the Jones boys were uhoeI al
rest be fed The city.
ANOTHER JONES.
r. r Jones was the representative OF
,h,s .roat family namo yesterday and
ga company with Charles kosser answer
ed 20 three charges.
Drunk and oegein. on the street
Heiug disorderly in the Second Ponce
station and curs.ng and abusing the OIL
lcers
the Second station.
Policeman Walton found them annoy
inz every passor-by and arrested the pre-
cious pair lie was quite a hero I'm me
ewes of tho force for having so sue
cessfuly landed two such touehs ana
mad 10 tell over and over again 10 ms
feliow-oficcrs how he accomplished the
feat
AZ the station house the men amused
themselves hy calling for water ana
when 90 was brought 10 them iho"ihs
81 in the officers faces.
Sergeant Cosby said they did the most
scientific cussing of anybody in his eN-
pericncc. and De IS not an amateur.
They broke up everything in the cell
including some Of the pastering ana
appeared Yesterday morning with lapse
OF memory
squire Lonnie heard the evidence
without comment. fined them $40 cacn
and added "a sentence of six months in
ian The thing worked so easy that a
child could run Sc ana Jones was on the
way 90 Join the rest of the family be-
fore DE knew what had happened, ana
Rosser looked Ike man who had
stepped on "a banana peel
DOWN OF THE RIVER.
A case came up from Black Byrd Is
land that was fruitful in charges ana
barren IN evidence
Thomas Farmer was charged with
beating Mary Conway. with assaulting
andt making proposals 10 Daisy Conway.
j. years old. and with beating Joseph
Conway.
There was also a charge against
Mrs. Mary Conway for assaulting Ihos'
Farmer with rock.
Mr.. Farmer told AN about it first he
said Mary C0nways father died ana
she started out To- sell the two quits
the old man died on. and hy mistake
she sold him another Quilt that had no
post norton reputation and DE gave her
fifteen cents for g.
Mrs. Conway found out her mistake IN
a sober moment and wanted 10 back.
Mr. Conway told Farmer no gentleman
would buy bed clothes from a lady
when she was drunk intimaung there
by that Mrs Convey sold the things
with a studied purpose I'm Wow.
Mr. Farmer would not surrender his
bargain. though Mrs. Conway abused him
over tAr HaNA A"ilNN anu M.t"A 't
caught him outside The yard Sine chased
him with a big rock
Mr. Farmer had fine array Of Wit
nesses TO testify 20 the standing of the
Conways in Black Byrd Island society
and the charges made against him boy
the CQnways dissolved In thin air.
Mr.. Farmer and Mrs. Conway paid
$3.50 each for lighting.
Thomas Light appeared in court with
bis head iu Aseptic dressing according
20 the most approved style of modern
surgery and on the stand told how Thos.
Grant Walker most aegrcssivcly picked
a row with him while they were pacing
stems in "a car at 18th and Cary Streets
Thomas Light did not put them on the
pie 20 suit Thomas Grant Walker ana
after jawiug each other for the space
of some hours they got into "a miX-up
on The floor OF the car and Ihos. Llgnt
was cat over the Torch ad
PITCHFORk AND KNIFE.
The testimony was that there was
ritchfork Boz the Car and the en- . n
q col0red lawyer was ga make 30 appear
that the wound was made by the p.tcn-
fork
Dr. Goode said it was a knife or some
other sharp cutting instrument and
the wound could not have been made
with "A pitchfork.
Squire Lonnie played trumps and sent
the case 90 The grand jury.
lie disposed of several other trining
cases and cleared the docket without
having persplre1 "a bit.