The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-23

Accommodations for Three Hundred
the Proper Size.
The DISPENSER RACKS HIS BRAIN
Pays the Days Expenses With Back
scores-WiiIiam Saunders Goes 10
Grand Jury FOR Attempting
Kill officer Tate.

tsTday and paid as little attention TO Gus
toners as clerk in q five and ten cents
store.
After court The Great Law Gtyer held
long conference with Commonwealth
Attorney Richardson in regard TO the
size and arrangements of a new city ian.
The largest number of prisoners ever IN
jail at one time was 246, and they declded
that accumm odatlons for $50 would iiot
be too much in view Of the future growth
Of the city.
Justice John thinks a free lunch coun-
ter would prove a great attraction, 3ut
be will not insist on this.
a GREAT MEMORY.
Back scores went far towards paying
The days expenses In the Police Court
this morning, and the Great dispenser
racked his brain to recall the past Oh
lenses of the sinners before him until the
gray matter was loosened from the ce-
pfalic ganglion like two freight cars with
oid-fasliioned link couplings, ana every
nut had TO be tightened again before ne
could think in his usual automatic coup
ling and all veshbuied style.
The Golf family alone worked the Great
Lawgfver's thinker several minutes over
time and gave him i spell OF mental
Eeariness.
Ballard Golf was charged with being
urlink ON the street. The Great Dispen-
Ser viewed him over his pure gold eye
glasses with d 1neditative air like man
when his wife asks him If he can Temem-
her the date of their wedding-day, and
then. IN an insinuatiVe way, remarked
10 Mr. Goff:. You have been here be-
fore" Then another second thought
land more than once"
Sure enough the record showed that
MIR. Golf on November %, 1899. was
charged with the same offense and cut
the lecture and again on July u, 1860,
celebrated the national holiday twenty
days late, ana didn't come to 1neetin'."
a LUMP SUM.
All these sins came 10 a nice little
lump sum. and Mr.. Golf concluded he
would have to ride and in default
went 10 the pen.
Albert Golf was also charged with go
ing to bed on the sidewalk, and also
with not answering summons for Sim
liar offense q year ago, and also went
10 The pen.
T William Saunders alias Henry Brown,
alias William Henry. has gotten deep
in the tolls of the law, and records of the
Great Dispenser Court proved to be
a gold-mine of offenses against the pris-
oner. isa
Saturday Mr.. j. I. Kay recognized a
set OF harness on William Saunders
horse ilitched to a wagon on Broad Street,
that was stolen from his stable Septem-
Der 18th. Officer Z. G. Tate put Saun-
dcrs under arrest and when near the
station-house the negro broke from him
and ran
The officer fired, and the prisoner return
ed the fire Sergeant Epps took up the
chase. and Saunders was arrested III a
tfcyrrssp pistol
found up chimney, where he had hid it,
with one chamber empty.
A BAD RECORD.
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years old, nearly white, and known TO
the police as a desperate man. He has
been under arrest for stealing chickens
and committing other rObberies Il number
of times before, and for long time eYad-
ed the police.
He 1t was the police believe who muir
tlered Mrs Drinard and Mrs. Henley, in
Goochland county twenty-three years ago,
when they were killed and their houses
robbed.
Now he was fined $50 and given thirty
days for carrying concealed weapons; Civ
en- ninety days for the theft of the har-
ness, and sent to the grand jury for at
tempting 10 murder Policeman e Z
Tate. while in the discharge Of his duty
Jake johnson, a Young nulatto. has made
2. good start towards establishing a repH-
,ation as a bad man.
While loa6ed with mean whiskey Satur-
day night, he insulted a number of ciii-
zens. including some ladies', and was chas-
tiscd by two young white men, G. G
Merrinan ana Frank Stand.
READY FOR BLOOD.
Jake had already declared he would XIII
any white man VINO laid his hand upon
him.
Later he followed Merri1nan around The
corner. and fred at him five tines.
Jake johnson saore velle1nendy that not
he bat another negro fired the shots and
that he could produce the man. lie was
allowed TWO days TO secure MS witnesses
Ia make his defence but was sent 10 jail
and the additional charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons was made against him
IKE Smith and Alice Seaphon tcolored)
were having a high old tine SATURDAY
night off the proceeds OF lkeS week
wages when arrested for being drunk ana
6.so,de,.ly. Il7e's mother bought him for
ss.-ca. i,lt1 Alice, who IS pcrhaps an orphan,
pines in Jail
A CORY SHIRT WAIST.
Annie johnson tcosoreG4 threw out a iot
of threats al Mildred Scott tco2ered) dowt!
nm Eighteenth Street and Mildred iE,'lw
a two-pronged s;eel fork ana stick al
Annie Then AnHie got her taVorite
v,zapor,--a h-ooras; ick-and what she die
for Mildred was suck all over her S1!&
shirt waist, and The Great Law Sever
fi..ta each 50. Annie raised the cash. but
Mildred with her CORY garments, Went 10
the temporary home o. Topeka joe
James jackson {coiorec) charged with
being a fugitive from justice and wanted
at Newpo.. News. was HEX; for the otliceI'5
Lewis lsol;.. CHARGED with beating Al
bert Cafes with bottle and Alber5 Gat les
tl.tr-ee v;th creating 9 disturbance y
pitnain's Theatre curing the performance
of grand opera there se;taed up win ii2s
Great Dispenser by paying Sosts 2l;ti
thSn they smiled agatn.
Several citizens who were unexpected
i. aye-talke1t with q f3sist paid it.e rev
tsx-s2 s5-for their fun.
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