The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-26
Gang OF RrzzARps.


Julia Holmes tcolored1 was charged "ith
nssault.ng and trying TO cut Janet Turner.
a man with money and n satchei haa
tstrayed Tito The T0ost of these piaSh VIZ
lures While one caioled him TO the lnsice
nj the house julia Holmes went through
Ais satchel on the porch, and another pro
Of the same soiied ;slumaee saw Jull3 II OH
d window and "squeaied'' en- her
The man escaped with his life and the
loss of his clothes, and Julia ana Janet
brought The balance of the inmates as
witnesses. After allowing a lying match
for i've minutes Squire Lonnie put an
Hands under security for thirty days, ana
turned the pen into a buzzards' roost
John Williams. alias Norfolk, was
charged with cutting Ben Johnson. a
t,nlored lawyer defended Williams. ana
sndowea him with certain high impulses
that were. mo doubt, a surprise 70 " iiilaliis
himself. Accused and complainant went
10 Jail in default of s. fine each
waverly Hutclett, for ASSUMING ana
beating Gertrude Kenny, was finea 80.
Ioicl, Powell (yvflite) for assaultinS, and
Striking Lucy Robinson, was fined 50
BARNES FAMILY AGAIN
re,a Barnes-slim. black and sleek
sswept up before the court, charged with
i.,ttarntiIr to cut Emma Simons with a
razor
II twas a bad day for Richmond when the
..Csoos tcolored) SamariIans' transplanted
The Barnes family from l-unenburS 10 TINS
city They are the terror OF the ne2Sh-
1 f,orhond and ever since they were charged
with numbering ..old Mrs. Pollard" fer
! her husbands money, their name has been
periodically before the public in some dis
graceful way
1t is a source of remark in the Police
Court that no mater how large the fines.
the Barnes always get the money rem
4 '.somewhere-''
Lena was fined $40 and her father shut
fed VI, in his oil dirty-bluc army uniform
and promptly paid the fine with costs
Alice Jasper, Rowen Wilkins and sgd
ney Jasper were charged with assaultins
and abusing Mary Johnson. This WAS an
other case of much nigge--talk and fines
all around
Mary johnson declared before the hour
Of punishment Tint she didn't have a
cent in the world, but was the first to
step forward and pull a fat poeket-booh
from her ample bosom and liquidated the
fine.
AMATEUR DETECTIVE
---' Guy A. Newiirk was under arrest as
a suspicious character. Mir. Newl1irk is
from the country Any town negro could
tell that square of, but Mr.. NewkiTk
mud in his pocket, a card appointing him
q member OF the American Detective AS
having answered an advertisement to that
effect.
The card announced that Mr.. Newllirk
xas member No SO of the American De-
5ective Association, and called on the
public to extend TO him al the courtes.es
OF the position.
Armed with this card, Mr. Newl1irk
came to town from adjoining county
To hunt for any criminal that might need
arrest. Having searched the bar-rooms
with diligence, he went to the office of the
Chief OF Police, to borrow a pair of hand
cuffs, in order 10 secure his mnn should
he meet him.
A charge OF being q suspicious character
was preferred against him and he was in
The Police Court this morning. looking as
much like detective as policeman does
q balet-Sirl.
He was discharged, a wiser and a So
berer man.
A BAD NEGRO.
Atkins Jeffress, the negro giant who was
before the court the day before. having
been arrested by Officer Wyatt for swind-
ding Ann Lacy, an old colored woman, out
of her hard-earned wages to play it at
policy, was back again, charged with
stealing a gun. Since the first arrest Of
sicer Wyatt has been looking up Jefrrcss'
record, and finds that his sins are numer-
Gus and of carinine hue
Jeffress is over six feet high, very ath-
aetc and carries a considerable scar on
his forehead. He seems 10 have made
himself very pleasant TO the colored fe-
nales with whom he came in contact,
and by this means worked his schemes.
He borrowed a breech-loading gun from
Matilda Smiths son last october and new
er returned it.
Ii was Maulda's dead sons gun and
She said she had walked the streets at
night looking for that man on account
of that braech-loader, when she ought to
have been at home cooking her husbands
silrf,er. thai The hrrcci1- lnaIlnr had ca1,s1,a