The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-06
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Steadfastness Of Justice Johns lem.
perance Class.
FOUND A MAN UNDER THE. BED.
Miss Brown Screamed and the aIan
Jumped Out Of the Second Story
Window-He Went to the
Grand Jury,

New Year resolutions are being kept
with amazing fidelity by Justice Johns
temperance class There are fewer
DRINKS on the January docket than for
the same number OF days for months and
yesterday not a case OF lntoxlcatlon
darkened the page of the Great DIS
penscr's daily records of his recalcltrant
fellow citizens short cominss
At ATTENTION.
A large and appreciatiye audience
greeted Tie Great Dispenser as he grace
fully tripped into the Temple of Justice
Yesterday, and hung with bated breath,
on the new gags in Justice John joke
book for the year nineteen hundred and
at the same time pulled up their trousers
legs TO preserve the crease
The great law-Siver, after hearing the
remarks Of a noted divine who took lline
by the forelack in his sermon last Sunday,
marked them as My Twentieth Century
Humor," but after reading the elucidation
of the March of the Centuries in the Great
Evening Leader, marked it Continued
on account of neWly-diSC overed evidence.
CAME OUT OF THE WEST.
Fred Jasper, colored, one of the west
Cary street Christmas rioters whose case
was before continued on the plea OF the
counsel for the accused, was again con-
tinUed at the request OF the officers VINO
made the arrest, in order to secure other
witnesses.
Mrs. c. W. Brown is one of the few
ladies in the world who has found man
under the bed. Many ladies have looked
for one every night through a long life
and died without having discovered so
much as a pair of boots
But Mrs Brown was more fortunate.
She found a man under the bed without
having suffered any previous Anxiety
about it and without looking Tor nm or
expecting TO find him.
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
1t happened this way: Mrs. Brown, who
lives with her husband over his grocery
and bar at the corner of Jackson and
Second streets went up stairs between 9
ard o'clock III the evening TO put her
little boy to bed, and set a lamp, which she
carried, on the washstand near the bed
She took a notion 10 raise the bed up IN
the way careful housewives do 1t, and
pulled the tick back from the stats and
the rays of. the lamp fell full in the face
OF a young negro man lying on ms sac
on the floor under the bed.
Mrs Brown made known her discovery
to the neighborhood by a prolonged
scream and Mr. Brown rushed up stairs,
thinking Mrs. Brown had dropped the
lamp and was burning UP.
RECOGNITION.
The morlentary glance that Mrs. Brown
had of the negro was sufficient to ldentl-
fy him as James Moon. who conducted a
lunch counter in Mr.. Browns esta blish-
ment.
THE MOON WAS UNDER A CLOUD.
When Mrs. Brown screamed, the Moon
rose and went through the window to the
ground below.
Mrs. Browns little boy stated that he
was coming along the street and saw
Moon jump from the window and set be-
hind the fence.
Mr. Brown stated that he had recently
lost sums of money large and small, i'll
a mysterious way and had discharged
several employees on suspicion.
or forty dollars he had placed in the
washstand drawer that evening, five was
gone. when search was made alter
Moon was discovered under the bed.
The accused was sent on to the grand
jury and placed under bonds of $500 for
70 months. The moon was in eclipse
READY TO GO.
V S. Wolf the man who Claims to be
n drummer and is wanted in several
States as a fugitive FROM justice, agreed
to 90 when wanted without reauisition,
and his case was continued for 10 days
to allow officers from other States to
reach here.
John Lee (colored) was charged with
beating his wife. He said he was whip
ping their child and his wife struck him
and he slapped her. The woman said
he was a good husband and paid the
rent and she wasn't afraid of him. John
promised never to whip the child again
as long as he lived and they went home 4
reunited family.
Leroy Taylor. a colored boy htteen
years old, climbed over the transom OF
the bake-room of Wnl. Re!nheimer "
Sons. on Broad street, and stole lot OF
eggs and butter and other goods.
Leroy confessed to the theft and went
to the grand jury.