The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-12
BUSIEST Man
IN RICHMOND.
Justice John Passed the Carnival
Arch Without fitting His Head.
A WOMAN AND A RATCHET
10 Say Nothing OF the Dog, Made a
Deep Impress!on-Mike .Gai,aSan
WAS oDst-eperous, But Would
Not Hurt Il Cat.

Justice John was the only man in Rich
snond VINO came TO the City Hall yester-
day and didn't turn around at the corner
and throw, his chin up like a connoisseur
about 10, sample a drink of wine and take
lingering look at The beautiful Carnival
arch.
No, sir, he had other fish, TO fry, and he
stuck his two feet out in front Of him as
straight as a pair of ski and slid along TO
the tribunal OF the people. no. sir, no
toafing over Carnivals for him; he's the
handspring of the machine. and if he stops
time ceases 20 roll.
cNBz POOR. SINNER.
One poor sinner tenanted the cold spaces
of the prisoners pen yesterday morning,
looking as lonesome as single pill in
box. When Sergeant Thomas, in his
robusto baritone demanded. Silence.
gentlemen, none of the reserved seats
We're sold, but the Great Dispenser can
make Roman holiday out of one case,
and went 20 work as cheerfuliy as If
he playing TO full house, with all
season tickets.
J. %. Thompson answered to the charge
of assaulting, cursing and threateing
10 strike With a chair Leila +. Anderson.
The complainant failed to appear, and
Thompson was bailed on his own
secosnizance.
assaulting, cGrsinE and threatening To
cut with knife A Pohlig. PHASE yer
oner, j wouldn't hurt a cat" said Mike.
shaking for the lack of d drink TO steady
alis 1ons-weakened nerves. ..and l don t
behave you would replied the Great
Dispenser. naturally dropping into the
Trench accent of the dilapidated Mike
The short Of il was that Mr.. Gahagan
was drunk-very drunk-and wanted to
get drunken, and he negotiated for a
loan with some strangers, and. not
getting ii. grew obstreperous.
He went down for twenty days.
WOMAN AND A HATCHET
Maud Silvia. a gypsy-loolSing denizen
of Mayo Street. was charged with
striking with a Ratchet one a. Pollen, of
Seventeenth Street. Pollen came with
stage property enough to set a scene in
THE Streets of New York, even bring
ing big bottle of Iiniment, carefully
wrapped. to make an impression, on the
Great Dispenser.
Siivia charged that Pollen had been very
persistent in unwelcome attentions, and
Pollen swore he never went on Mayo
Street. except to so to church
Silvia did not deny having hit Pollen,
and the knots and blood on Polen's head
were strong enough circumstantial evil
dence that he had been hit.
Silvia said she hit him with a wooden
bar Pollen said the 7atchet. but there
was no doubt about Pollen having been
hit all right enough.
Silvia had skye-terrier along, with
a yard of sleigh-bels around its neck,
chat jingled like a hokey-pokey cart as
she hauled the long-haired canine by one
foot into the presence of the Great
E-awgiver and showed that one eye had
been knocked out, and charged Pollen
with doing it
She also said that Pollen wanted to
any one else.
The Great Dispenser sized up the case
just right and drove it out of court.
Arthur Leroy Lewis alias Arthur Ed
wards, colored. was charged with beat
ing Ewell Hubbard. a much smaller
white boy. He was fined S2.5N.
RAN CATS
Leila Lewis, colored, was charged with
assaulung. cursing and striking with
brick Gertrude johnson. The incident
occurred in Ram Cat Alley. where the
soft word that turneth away wrath is
never spoken, and where brick bats are
kept in stock as standard goods and
ingenuity in coming epithets was
dong ago exhausted.
The Great Dispenser gave each virago
an inning and then fined each $3.50, and
while the principals marched TO the pen
the witnesses SUNK away, feeling that
they Were on dangerous grounds.
John Harlow and G. ". Gaskins, color
ed, charged with creating disturbance
and fighting in the barroom of Charles
Brown the night before made friends
and walked up to the Captains office and
paid $50 each.
Emma Kenny. charged with being
drunk, and bailed. did not put in an
appearance. and an attachment was is
sued for her.
Marduas Darhanan came from far
away Syria, where sanitation is lost
art. and made his first acquaintance with
the garbage ordinance. He filled a bar
rel with banana. stalks and refuse and
a policeman ordered him to have it re-
moved. He thought the Syrian way the
best and covered. the offending banana
refuse with a pile of decayed oranges.
The lesson cost NJ. D. Two dollars.
The Great Dispenser. after court. re-
tired TO the quietude of the houdor to
mediate and prepare himself to dish up
q civil cases in II minutes, at the noon