The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-10
GRE DIS Pen SER
sIRIC IL ON TINE \ :.
Crap Players Build a Fire on Floor Of.
Vacant House.
PLENTY OF MAGISTRATES Now.
a Friend OF Justice john Fined for
Raising Cain A Runaway Lad
kindly Trcatcd-NNomanI Fined
for Striking Man.

\ Tho days OF suspicious character
charges are nearly over. remarked the
Sreat dispenser yesterday TO an officer
who arrested a cuipr't without q, war
rant OH the charge Of being suspicious
character and said be could have gotten
,,,s comnanions. bu, could not get a
warrant
The bi!i cniarging the powers OF the
magistrates Of Richmond so that they
can issue warrants OF arrest has passed
both houses of the Legislature and only
needed the Governors signature 10 MAKO
n a law and as soon as it is in force
R,chmond will have eighteen magistrates
who may Issue warrants IN place OF SIX.
DRAMATIC SCENE.
The o,,cninS scene IN the Police court
drama. yesterday morning was 81 counter
part 10 the closing scene in jules Nernes
Eighty Days Around the World, which,
by the way, would at this modern 1sH,e
present not half the hazard OF d rue oset
the Clay-strcet line.
The hands on the electric clock. on the
w,ell-rubted wall behind the chair OF
S,ase where sets the Ruler of All the
Peeple pointed to 9:2s o'clock.
The boudoir was empty and there were
no sounds from The voice that has struck
.
ing through the corridors. Clerk Whi'c
got fisety, people craned their 11ccks Ike
turkeys viewing a strange rooSlhE-pace'
and a general air of uneasy expectancy
set on the crowd like an oVeraaaSlns
snow-drIft on steep roo1-
snynebody remarked that Justice John
10 late The clock then stood at 9:oS l..
Sergeant Thomas cast an eye Ut 1he
4i,ne-rcducer and smiled comment
sn1iic. Somebody said In bet 4 dollar he
ain', on time
80 - CAN'T LOSE HIM
Sergeant Thomas simply said. Hell be
here
8. A man with "a combination purse, that
81 takes tl,ree minutes to open. accepted
rfhe bet
II was then s:29 The excitement grew.
One man offered a wager OF ten doiIars,
His opponeTt looked at Sergeant Ihomas
confident smile and raised the bet nun
dred. In fifteen seconds there was money
enough staked on the issue TO purchase
1he entire State interest IN the H., r
and p r. r.. and Wall,streeti panic
was only averted when al 9;29 Il sharp.
fhe Great Dispenser. like Phineas FoSG,
stood framed in the doorway, a benign
smile on his classic 1ace' anu tiie eouii'
was saved.
No bets could be Carried out in the
presence OF the court. and the thousands
that were about TO change hands on the
movement CT ore man, and a couple OF
ciockShands were saved TO the owners,
their heirs and assigns forever.
PRETTY TABLEAU.
The Great Dispenser stood for mo-
noent with the-boy-on-the- burning-deck
kind of an air. and without losing ms
nerve for a second kissed his hand TO the
admirinE crowd. and at nine o'clock, Plus
twenty-nine minutes and fifty-nine sec
onds. brought his gavel down with
thump. At $3.50 o'clock every thing was
drumming like the eight hundred horse
mower dynamo or Browns island, ana
Sergeant Thomas never lost his conlldent
smile.
striking Alta O'Dell, postponed from the
day before to allow The accused to sum-
mon witnesses. was called. A cross-war-
rant had In the meantime been issued
and Alta O'Dell was charged with being
drunk, cursing, abusing and STRIKING
" WITH ONE ACCORD.
1.-THE ladies Of the house" all testified
with one accord that Alta O'Dell was the
aEEressor In the battle with the Hon. MI
Stoner. and although Alta ODell vehe-
nently declared the man slapped her and
struck her. too, not one of the ladies'
could be found who saw the blows.
The evidence was that Mr.. John Stoner.
x. C. b. was playing the piano TO 1.-THE
ladies'" On the parlor, and Alta ODell
cursed and abused him: that he showed
her away, and she followed him into the
hall.
And Justice John pondered long and
teeply and then with a sigh of regret
fined the woman $3.50 for hitting the
man. \
IL stoner's LADY" friends had not
stood so r.manfully'' by him. what the
Great Dispenser would have done for
Stoner would have materially added TO
the days receipts.
POUND A FRIEND.
Albert Parsons. handsome, intelligent
lad. twelve years old, whoran away from
home at Bridgeton, n. j.. was taken in
charge by Officer Sweeney. at the Byrd.
Street Station. The boy had romanced to
the officer about himself, but under the
infinite tenderness Of the Great Dispenser
he told straight story. and said he had
run away from home because his two
aunts. who lived with his mother, We're
unkind TO him. =
He said his father was dead. He IS
nicely dressed. He heaved deep signs OF
distress while sitting In the boudoir
waiting to be- taken in charge by the
officer, hut cheered up smartly under the
{ kindly. words of the Great Dispenser.
A letter was addressed to his mother
and the boy will be cared for until she is
heard from.
RAISING CAIN.
Bette White. colored. was saturating
the atmosphere at First and Cary streets
with profanity at IL o'clock. p. NJ. and
ennsding the trenches OF the neighbor-
hood with noise for three blocks around
when a policeman took. her in tow and
sieered for the station. During the
march she turned her guns on the cop
and fired lyddite sheeis of abuse at
him until she was placed in 6urance vile
She declared she was a friend of JUS
tice John. but for fear of being accused
of partially the Great Dispenser fined
her IS. and she went 10 the pen in de-
falI.
William Morris, white man charged
with being suspicious character. was
held one day for Investigation. He was
recently under arrest under charge of
car robbery IN Petersburg and is under
suspicion for the same offence here.
FRoM FRYING Pan. INTO FIRE.
Alex Brooks. a small white boy. was
:. arrested charged with stealing an old
copper pan. the sale of which he was
prepared to negotiate. He said he took
s. the pan from home He was turned
over 10 his maternal parent for punt: h
,nent in the old-tashioned way.
Lee Anderson. coiored. was charged
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