The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-11
JOHN
WORK ING HARD
/ IN For Revenue Only Is HIS
Motto.
ANY flGHIlNG CONsIlTU ENIs
sr.F,ayrssc 1ewailcr Recently Iars'. n
4 a III the Governor Gets ntoIr,ubic
AEasn.-Ton Rood ana a
Base BaII-Bat.
4 large audience flled the Big White

A large audience filed the Big White
Ehambsr yesterday.
s The Great Dispenser worked like a steam
Gredge, asid disposed OF a trp.e-sheeJec
docket inside the first hour.
The coio1ed population had ripped,
reared, c.lssed and sweafed through the
en;ire Saabath dgy. and the pen was more
thickly Inhabited than The densest purtsons
OF China Tar1I Tor revenue only was
the motto. and 1t was a great day Ter
Zines.
George Fsuntieroy 5colored) hit Thomas
Talyor, and oidnt deny it. 1t cost him
S2a59
Wise Banks and Virginia Miller we're
rearing and cutting hisn didos IN the
Rtxat. They were also as:sessed S2oo each
Lulu Pollard coiored, MT LUCINDA
Green with q brick. and Lucinda pus
They were ansa sa.5e and made friends
In the pen.
Charles Jones lcoioredb and Rosa Walker
were charged with lighting. Were lined
IMPROBABLE CHANGE
Tucker Coleman tcolorea) was charged
with beating Major Gaines (co.orea1
Tucker IS a man OF force, and lowered
over Maisr like a Newfoulsd- and over d
Eat-terrier. The Great Dispenser said be
xnew Tucker, and that IL he had hit Major
mot have been there 10 tell the tale. and
{ he dismissed The case
L,Ilu Clark lcolored) was charged with
disturbance and fighting in the street, and
paid S.
Tom winston, for being drunk and dis
orderly on the street, was fined S..
Thomas Chancellor was charged With
c1arsing and abusing George Childress, and
the evidence showed that it was an
exchange of compliments and both men
were fined s2.5O. Mr.. Chancellor declared
he was on his own porch, and had right
10 deIenu his family The Great Dis.
penser declared that cussln was not a
Z legal method of defense.
Julia johnson tcolored5 with Amazonian
terocity assaulted Powhatan Nicholas. and
was given ten days In jan. She was SUI.
in an ugly MOOD and had ten days added
10 the first sentence for disorder in the
TOO QUICK TO STRIKE
Frank Walters hired a runabout from
r. f. HundIey, and when he went for II
the condition of the horse did not suit hlin'
and Mr. Hurrdley offered him his money
BACK Mr.. Walters cursed him ana
knocked him down, and was fined So He
declared that if he was fined the Great
dispenser would have to send hin 10 jail
The Great Regulator of Human Affairs
declared he had Just as soon send 3 man
TO JAN as TO cat, and called the next case
while Mr.. Walters was being escorted 10
the pen
Lafayette Trewalier was charged with
baking from the person of Estelle VIII
aiams SIS in currency of the United
States. Estelle snoozed psacfui4S on
4l,e lounge, feeling that. her funds We're
In secure place, but when she awolle
theTa was a slit in her stocking, her
purse was on the floor and empty, and
s.,rewaller. a visitor. was gone.
~ Trewaller was convicted in the Police
g.
mandolin. and through the influence Of
friends secured a pardon from the Gov
arnor. He was placed under security
and sent to jail for twelve months.
Milton yenable (coloredD was charged
with stealing watermelon from ]. NJ
Hulcher. He rolled watermelon away
Z from the pile with his feet and some one
else carried it off. He claimed that he
struck it accidentally. was given the ben
A eft of the doubt and fined s. for d;sor-
derry conduct.
TOM REED.
Tom Reed (colored) was charged with
hitting William Page with a baseball
Is bat on the head. William turned IN
gTi9ning and more the worse for wear
The Great Dispenser delivered a lecture
on the Subject of ringers with whiskers
playing baseball instead of being at
work. and then heard the case.
Tom said he was sitting upstairs
reading a hymn-hools when William came
along with a bucket OF beer and used
very inflamed language. His mo;her-in-
& law asked him to make William go away
and he drove him of. Then when he
left for the baseball field William Page
attacked him and he hit him with the
baseball bat.
The Great Dispenser advised him
against the folly of hitting a Niger on
the head even with a baseball! bat and
Z dismissed the case.
Il Lee jackson fcolored,, an es-convict,
was sent to jail for six months for steal
Il ing a pair OF pants.