The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-28
VOICE OF
GREAT DISPENSER
A Get on Move That Would Not
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A Young Telegraph Operator Threat
Row
A Get on Move That Would Not
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A Young Telegraph Operator Threat
ened by Tramps Barricades the
Door and Sounds His Key for
Help, Which Speedily Comes.

The voice of the Great Dispenser car
romed around in the boudoir before court
yesterday morning and percolated out into
the yauited spaces of the Big White Cham
Der like the titful notes OF a street piano
rising above the traffic OF the street
Having sifted the whole political situa-
ton and lambasted everybody VINO mad
the temerity to differ with his views ne
was ready as the clock hands pointed TO
the hour of $50 to straiShten out all the
kinks in the skein of life Of his one-hun-
dred- thousand fellow citizens with neat
ness and dispatch.
The usual short Friday docket con-
fronted the Great Manipulation OF the Law
as he hurried on the bench with the air OF
a man who had little to do and was glad
of it.
"A LITTLE HITCH.
Lets get on. Cali the docket" snap
ped the Great Ruler of the people as he
brought the gavel down on the bench with
a shock that made the ice tintinabulate
against the side of the water pitcher,
like the trembling of glass chandelier on
a fast river steamer.
John w. WASH" shouted the stento-
rian voice of the court crier.
John w. WASH repeated the ringing
tones of the Court bailitf, and then there
was a full minute of suspended anima-
ton.
Bailiff Gibbons, with an idea born of
experience and quick gumption, broke
the silence by yelling: John W. Wash
ington! y
The get on movement continued to
hang fire and then like a man who tries
his last match, Bailiff Gibbons poised his
voice and shouted: John w. Walters.
Still no criminal came forward to feed
the mill of justice and the get on move
ment declined to get.
Then the official eyes turned on the
policeman responsible for the arrest with
q devouring look that only has lis aW-
full parallel when a reporter on daily
paper gets a brides name wrong III d
wedding notice.
PULLED HIS MAN.
The confused cop dived into the pen
and hauled OUT sleepy eyed negro ahd
dug him in the ribs as ne abused him
for giving the wrong name and then
not answering to it when 1t was, calieo,
to the annoyance of the Court, the dis
comfiture of the ofhcer ana the uA ose-
ment of the crowd.
Then he answered to the name Of John
w. Nash and the charge of jumping on
and off a Chesa pealle and Ohio train Whaie
in motion and was fined s..
Gertrude Saunders, on warrant did IN
lawfully take, steal and carry away one
blue silk dress, one white dress, one piach
WOrSted dreSS anu one quii', <'ii y.
value of SIS, the property OF Mary Saun-
ders," her mother.
Gertrude is an incorrigible and drunk
ord. She took the clothes which her MOTH
er had made for other people ana .odhsu
them to dissolute companions, VINO spoi'-
ed in the borrowed plumage, ana tnen
forgot to return them
The case was continued to MAY oth' anu
Gertrude went to jail.
*
Harry Gilpin and George Gilpln, two
tramns, were charged with being suspic-
ions characters. They were turned over
nv Special Officer NcLelland, OF the
C,hesap,ake and Ohio Railroad, to Ponce
man Tate lin Fulton, at night ana taken
by him to the First Station.
2. INlerning, the operator of the thesa-
neol5e and Ohio Railroad at the lower emu
of the long ward, below Fulton, occupies
q little frame office in remote ioca-
t;on. and was threatened by these Two
men and three others, who flrSt lalu
down under the house and then ueiilaho:u
admission. and threatened him If he did
not open the door.
The operator ltelegraphed the situa-
tion no the upper yard, and I'm feW
minutes a locomotive with help was at
the scene, and the two Gilpins were as
rested.
The men claimed to be from Newport
News, and on their way 10 Fasie d VI o'ii-
re in Manchester
They vent to Jail with the understand
inc that. if the brother did not materia-
lie, they would spend sixty days on The
rock pile.
The brother came to their assistance
later on. The other three men, who were
probably the real offenders, escaped,
PLANT MELONS.
Vim lewis (colored), arrested the day
before as :: suspicious character, PROVED
that he lived in Hanover, and was re-
leased with the Injunction to go home
and plant a good patch of watermelons
John Rye, who, while in a wealthy state
of mind the day before, wanted TO buy
the Court, and insisted on the Great Dis
penser taking pay for his release, showed
up with "a missing recollection and some
money left, and was allowed his freedom,
on the payment of the usual fee OF Sl.lO.