Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-06-16
MONEY MADE HIN HOWL.

There has been an unceremonious
howl upon the part of some of the
white Negro-haters in this state about
the mixing OF the races.
They want separate .street-cars, sep.
arate steamboats,, separate railroads,
separate places of amusement and it
has been mildly hin, ed that they would
be pleased to have q separate hell.
But the hypocrisy Of these uttersn-
ces is show up occasionally in 9 most
ludicrous and humilisting light.
The latest phase of this situation was
disclosed in the Hustings Court OF this
city Tuesday June 18th, Judge s. B.
Writ presiding.
w. e. TIssLEY (white) of Peters
burg, Va, came to Richmond and land
ed in house of prostitution, finding
himself there Sunday morning, May
20th, 1900
Now all Of this would have been q
closed chauter and the white and col
lored folks OF the town would have
been no wiser had not the aforesaid
TINsLEy lost fifteen hundred dollars.
As he had slept IN the same bed with
MARY ETA BRITTLE, Negro woman
or Negroes or anything you choose
to call her, he came to the conclusion
that she had relieved him of this
amount of money.
We need not refer TO the character
OF the BRITTLE woman. Suffice it to
say that no colored man of respecta.
bility would have wanted her although
this white man seemed to have been
just ciazY" over her embraces.
He lost his money somewhere for he
admitted that he had experienced "a
high cid time" during the carnival
week.
Despite his solemn declarations, a
jury of white men.--gentlemen were
disgusted enough not to believe him
and they acquitted MARY Eta Barr
TILE Of the charge of Stealing his
money.
1t was a pity that the miscegenation
laws Of Virginia cannot be made to ap-
ply to q case of this description.
In fact, although it was shown that
TINsLEY had been guilty of adultery or
fornication, he was not punished. Had
he married the BRITTLE woman, both
would have been given q term in the
Virginia penitentiary.
We do not know what kind OF man
TINsLRY can be anyway. Few persons
OF his standing would have been will.
ing to be advertised as sleeping with q
Negro woman for twice fifteen hun.
dred dollars.
For our part, we are opposed to this
mixing: let the white folks STAY ON
their side of the line and there will be
fewer cases Of the hanging of colored
men for going on the white side of the
melon patch.
This is an object lesson and all of the
Negotiating cit zsns would do wsll N
take up this part of the race question
and deal with it as radically az thew
nave done with the other portion of If
F~OfNoA"AOh white men for
white women and colored men for col.
ored women, and punish either nv
naHging or imprisonment who crossss
on either side of the line.
From the outlook down here ow as
soon as this proposition is accepted. we
are confident that ten penitentisries
VIII have to be built to hold all of the
white folks guilty of this kind Of diver.
sion while the present one in existence
VIII be amply sufficient to hold all O,
the colored men found guilty of the
same kind ofimmorality.
TISsLaY may not be any wiser, but he
Knows great deal more, and a fitting
Climax to this case would be the TAX |
ing OF the BRITTLE woman ito live with
nim IN she city of Petersburg,
ne has injured her business. 81 mot
ner char se:er and. could with rssso n
pend TIE remaining $3.50 upon her AZ