The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-10
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COY CORNERS
IN POLICE COURT
Small Boys Loot Vacant Houses of
Gas Fittings.
ONE OF THEM SENTENCED.
The Ordinance i'll Regard to Jumping
on Cars Is Too Severe, and the
Great Dispenser RENTS
Onc-Halfthe Fine
ONE OF THEM SENTENCED.

The cozy corners of the Big White
Chamber were eagerly occupied yesterday
by citizens who had sighed for many
weeks for cool weather and We're the
first to shrink up like a last years buck
eye when it came.
Justice John had a terrible encounter
with the ordinance prohibiting boys from
jumping on and off electric cars.
CAR JUMPERS.
Mr. Jas L. Johnsons sons, Wallace and
Horace. were charged with jumping on
and off cars while in notion ~ friend
was present to represent him ana SAID
Mr. Johnson thought the boys were at
school But that didn't go and they were
fined So as prescribed by the ordinance
The friend was not ready to represent
him that way and a rule was issued for
Mr.. Johnson
Mr. John Bottoms was up on the same
charge against his boy. He knew moth
ing about it, but said his boy was too
small to jump on and off cars But the off'-
Ger said he saw the boy grab car going at
full speed and swing on with his feet fiy
ing outward like the tail of a kite.
Mr. Bottoms said he didn't have dollar to
his name; had whipped the boy and sent
him out of town The Great Dispenser
listened hard and scratched his head. II
was all right as long as he he hadn't read
| before. one dollar or two dollars, accord
| ing to his size, but there was the ordl-
nance making So the minimum fine He
| was sorry for Mr.. Bottoms, but he would
| have to pay.
DON'T KNOW EN-.
Mr. Walter Beasely said he was at
| work at the shop and didn't believe ms
| boy would do such Il thing.
| Then the Great Dispenser delivered
| lecture on what he knew about raising
| boys, and declared their parents knew
F.! less about them than anybody else on
| the block.
He fined Mr.. Beasely 50. too, and then
| he scratched his head some more and
| looked as worried as COW with her
calf on the other side of the fence
| He called Commonwealth's Attorney
| Richardson into the boudoir and also a
| Councilman or two.
| Then when he returned he declared
| that the fine was too heavy and that ne
should be allowed more discretion
He said he had been gwen to under
stand that the ordinance would be amend
ed and that he was going TO take big,
| responsibility and that he would re-
| nit one-hah the fire.
Then everybody smiled; friend came
TO Mr.. Bottoms rescue and all hands
paid $3.50 all around, including Bailey
Pond, Aubrey Golden and Robert Gaysie,
were tried
y BAD LOT.
w. 4. Brauder,17 years old, was charged
with being disorderly. iucOrr.gible, lazy
and beyond the control of his mother.
The Great Dispenser declared that the
bow was too large 10 send 10 the relor-
matorv, but he would have to work or
leave town.
He placed Brauder under bond of $50
for his good behavior for six months, ana,
in default he went to jail with d scoWl-
ing face and defiant air.
| me Great Dispenser declared he was
| delivering more lectures than Bryan; thai
Bryan made only fourteen speeches IN
one day, and that he made on an average
of thirty-fve, and Bryan amt in it with
me-
BRASS THIEVES
\ vacant ofice OF j. S. Moore was brok-
en- into by white boys and ''sutted' OF
gas and all other brass fixtures that were
salable as junk.
Willie Kloss. aged ten: Cliff Dozier an6
Balfour and Albert Lloyd, few years
older, We're charged with the theft
Two boys We're in a junk shop selling
the metal when an employe of Mr. Moore
entered He placed his hand on the klosS
boy. and his companion ran
The evidence was conclusive against him
but not against the others. He was re
| garded as too Young to place upon th
! stand and without his evidence, the OH
ers went free.
The parents of the other boys, weeping
at their narrow escape from a Ike rate
| added pathoS 10 the situation.
The little kloss boy was sentenced Il
the refOrmatory.
The police testified that these same boy
were committing other depredatons-
ROBERT TAYLOR'S SLAYER.
John Smith (coIoretU charged with tn
killing of Robert TAYLOR with pistol, va
arraigred and the case postponed t.
await the acton of the coroner's jury
which was summoned to meet at i32 Yves
IJuyal Street at $50 o'clock in the after
noon.
Lewis Dennis (colored), fifteen years old
was caught red-handcd coming from un
der a Richmond Fredericksburg and Pc
tonlac freight car with two head OF cab
bage, and was given thirty days in jail
fifteen for stealing and fifteen for lyinl
about it,
, George Fauntleroy and John Morton (col
, orejD were charged with fighting on tn
street. Morton had a white man for
witness, who proved to be Morton's bosom
friend while FauntIeroy had no witnes
except his own badiy-cut and swoliel
+ ! mouth.
The Great Dispenser roasted Morton an
his white companion. and declared he wa
tired of White folks and nissers niXin
| together.
He fined Morton $500 and discharge
! Fauntleroy.
: There were a number of other cases tina
paid good fines and brought the days col
lections to handsome sum
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