The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-20
BROKE FURNITURE
WITH PICK AXE
Norman Saunders Makes the Ac-.
quaintance Of the Law.
TREATS WARRANT. WITH DIs0AIN
Norman Saunders Makes the Ac-.
TREATS WARRANT WITH DIs9AlN
Justice John Tries a Turbulent Lotto
His Fellow Citizens aud Then En-
tertains tho Current Events
Club III the Boudoii.

Justice Johns current events ci.o vs.
very large yesterday morning AFTER CO :,
and standiEg-room only was coiio
that prevailed from the time the vi
Dispenser sounded the first cidFioii no.
in the matitudinai seance in the Douuoii
yesterday until he recolected he had tor.
gotten something they told him at NONE h7
to gel, and rushed out, Shaping p.s I'd !. Oh
his head like a man driving a wooden
plug into leaky water pipe.
AMIABLE LAW GIVER.
The Great Dispenser had plain sailing on
the bench Everybody rubbed his mar . the
right way. He cooed like a paog Jus
from his bath, and humor, without lions'
dubbed from his smiling lips as pure
as water from the Fonticello Lithia
Spring.
His constituents had engaged in nothing
worse than lighting, and this ne resal'i I
as necessary to the regulation OF htiiila imam
rights, a practice to be abridged, put liot
prohibited.
Ernest MINIS (colored). alias happy
Jack was charged with cursins, abusing
and threatening to shoot Mercer Hill.
They were playing the game called SKIN
in d Joint in Pink Alley. 10: ways that
are dark ana tricks that are vain HAPPY
Jack is peculiar and Mercer was
informed by a friend that Happy was
cheating him out of his money HAPPY
was charged with the trick, ana Mercer
found it safe to grab an iron poker.
Happy went outside and bought PTS
tot, and followed Mercer 10 tbs street
DOG EAT DOG.
The Great Dispenser regarded it as a
case Of dog eat dog, and dismissed the
case.
George White and Zeph Gathrisht, the
latter coored, were charged with assault
ing Matthew Fleming lcolorede, but the
- Y.T- T.
showed that Matthew was simply "spislnS
for a fight >
He was unloading some empty barrels
at the First Market and attacked MI
George White with a barrel.
Zeph Gathrieht. who is built on the
lines of a steam Street-rolier, took George
away from Mr.. White and set HIM down
on the other side of the street, while
Zeph was in between the wagon shafts
in IA circumscribed position. Matthew de-
clared if he couldn't beat white man he
could whip 81 niger and had hit leph sew
eral blows without apparently disturbing
the current of Zeph's thoughts when OH
Ger Holtzcraft collared Matthews.
The Great Dispenser thought whipping
a niger was worth two and a half, and
Matthew went to the pen in default OF
that amount
NORMAN THE CONoUEROR.
Norman B. Saunders (colored was charg-
ed with beating his wife. He swore he never
touched her. She swore equally as hard
that he broke a chair to pieces over her
head, but she could show no marks, and
the case was dismissed. Norman was sail
ing out OF court with fair wind and flowing
tide when he was suddenly brought to
anchor by a more serious charge.
Norman had bought some furniture on
the installment plan and failed to pay for
it or to give it up. IA deputy constable,
~, fkapf q
niture and Norman took his pick axe and
broke the furniture up and treated the
warrant as if it was a patent medicine
advertising circular, and "cussed OUT the
Deputy Constable.
Norman looked positively shocked when
informed that the Constable was an officer
of the law. and was genuinely dazed when
the Great Dispenser fined him S25 and sent
him to Jail for six months.
Emmett White (colored) was charged
with cutting Joe Norris with knife. They
are boys not over fifteen years of age.
The wound was made in the shoulder with
a pen knife and was sewed UP at the
First Station by DR.. T. w. Murrell. EN-
met White was sent to Jail for sixty days.
f. f. Bradley was charged with beating
J. E. Stone, and the case was continued
to the sd.
COULD NOT WINK.
Mary Day (colored) had the distinction
of being carried to the Police Station in
the ambulance The surgeon said she
was so drunk she couldn't wink. Mary
went down for thirty days.
Moses Boiler. whose thirst is harder to
subdue than the Philippine. instruction.
was back again Moses was too dilapidat-
ed to work the CHEEKY smile that has so
often won him out, and he went to the
chain-gang for thirty days with a meek
ness that would do credit to the reputa-
ton of his namesake.
Charles Rosser. another old-timer, was
back again with a promsie of twelve
months in Jail hanging over his head, but
the Great Dispenser made it sixty days,
and Charles was happy.
Geo Fox, alias T. Haines, alias Clark
alias Kyle, crook with a simple smile
was held under the charge OF being a fugi-
tive from justice from Washington, D. c.
and was held for the officers of that city