The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-29
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ON OBSTRUC Tons
Contractors Have TO Pay Even It
Lights Are Stolen.
GREAT DISPENSER NO LAWYER
Ella Watkins Takes Possession OF
Another Woman's Husband ana
Beats Her In the Barsain-ihe
New Doctor All Right.
GREAT DISPENSER NO LAWYER ).

The question of lights on street ooscTuc-
| tons at night engaged much OF me az.
tent1on of Justice john yesterday p''e
it did not worry him so much = as Tue
contractors VINO had to Pay two doildEs
fer net having lights up tiouSii tieS
claimed they went out or were stolen.
The Great Law Giver of the neop.e was
brisk of action and In as cheetiul d
frame of mind yesterday as d MAJ,
with all the business he ccuto 40 anu
not disposed to faggle ever the price OF
his goods.
He dug into the citizens pccSeit-b7oeas
with a vivaoity beautiful to benold. anu
paid as little attention to dissatisfied VIC
Tins as the box-oftlce clerk TO "a la1e
conner when the house Is all SOLO.
There were license cases galore, ana the
lublicating material for the city nlachan-
cry poured in a steady stream from IN
side pockets into the yawning drawer OF
the courts collector.
PUT ON STEAM.
They tackled the Great Dispenser on
all sorts of technical objections, put ne
only put on little more steam in the
| manner of the engineer OF as fast TRAM
when he strikes a burning bridge.
The Auditor. the City Collector ana
various learned citizens opposed Nun on
grounds of lnon-payrnent of license, where
he had imposed a fine Tie Great D.Spen-
ser proudly declares daily that he is no
lawyer, but he makes many snrefEFd CUES
lses, and when the battle OF the cay
was over the enemies fleet had been des-
troyed, and he lost not single man.
There were also some cases that snow
that human passions are not an asleep
in Richmond and that there are those VINO
have aspirations far off and beyond the
corroding love of money.
a
rant for Lucy Gilamore for cutting her
with a knife, and Lucy Gilamore secured
q. cross warrant, charging Ella Watkins
with felonously cursing, abusing and
| beating her.
BY some miscarriage of warrants, Lucy
GaEanlore was arrested, and when her
| name vas called. she came from the pen
in a much broken up and dilapidated con-
| dition-one eye closed and her left ear
crumpled like fallen rose leaf.
QUDENIIY PROSECUTOR.
On the other hand, Ella Watkins wrig-
gled her black anatomy up in front OF
the Great Dispenser with All the airy
| movements and hauteur of a lordly pro-
SecEtor
The incident that hal its development
in the court of regulation occurred in
penitentiaary bottom, wnere lived VIII
liam GiIannore and Lucy Gilacnore and
! tfleie', too, progeny William making
good money and hetE1llS support Lucy
and the children.
Then cams ELLA watkins. She wanted
William, and the fact that William had
few. natural membranes had no de-
terrent effect on ELLA. She mot only made
dead set at William, but cursed and
abused the mother of the children every
time she met her in the alle--.
Lucy stood all this until William took
to cursing his own children, in the pres
ence of her rival. and then. according to
Morris Booker. a merchant prince of THAI
locality dc wiraen hung and while fight
ing tooth and nail, William knocked his
wife down and Ella Watkins kicked her
in the face.
The Great Dispenser made anxious in
quiries concerning William. but was an
swered with the one word. skipped.
HES ALI, RIGHT
DR.. Fisher, the new ambulance surgeon,
stated that Ella Watkins had q. stab
wound in the shoulder, in which he took
two stitches. He testified like a veteran
Sergeant Thomas watched him narrowly
over his specks, and nodded an "he'l do
as the young surgeon retired from has
maiden expert appearance.
AS the Doctor told about her wound,
and she herself expatiated on her injury,
the black and airy Ella grew in AFRO
gance, and with fiery men and swelling
nostril waited the decree OF punishment
q S3lIlSL uilS nlI1fDie Lucy 1LGdNioIS.
Then the Great Dispenser told Lucy to
go home TO her .childun,'' and to the
proud and naughty Ella he gave twelve
months in Jail and fined her $50 Then
there was a buzz on the colored bleach
cries of the White Chamber, like a first
night at Confederate fair, while the
naughty Ella, With Unsurpassed fury,
was escorted to the pen in the iron grip
of a mighty cop.
Turner bright-skinned dudes of Jackson
Ward were charged with treSpasS at
the colored hall, IA North Third Street,
with being disorderly, and creating a
disturbance.
WOULD BE EASY.
DR.. R. E. Jones was the complainant.
Turner tried to enter the hail without the
requisite ticket, and was put out. In
the scuffle DR.. Jones knocked Turner
down. The Doctor asked that the
offender be not punished, but the Great
Dispenser declared that law and order
was especially needed in that part of the
city, and fined Turner S.. The other two
were discharged, not having been in the
row.
William H. Chapman (cooreO was
charged with assaulting w. n. Scott.
Chapman has a remarkable head-the
rear half yellow, while the balance is
black, and little maps stand on it at
intervals, giving his scalp the appearance
of a burned-over broomsedge field. There
were no eye-witnesses to the row, and
at every statement made by Scott, Chap
man shook his bullet head, in negative
disapproval, like q baby-rattle on a rub
Der stem.
Scott could show no wound, and the
Great Dispenser declared TO Chapman
that you've got to make a mark on a
niggeris head before I'll punish you,
and so Chapman went free.
MANY ALIASES.
L. H Ivey alias H. Coleman alias II.
Harris alias II. Home alias Ii. Cohen was
charged with unlawfully, feloniously and
burglariously breaking and entering in
the nighttime the clearinghouse Of
B. H. Ellington, and stealing an open.
face watch, of the value of S25
Mr.. Harry c. Glenn represented the
prisoner, and secured continuance to