The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-30
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THE SAM VALUE
Justice John Knows~How 10 Gauge
Their Worth.
llGnNIAYMEN ROB Mr.. scAERRER
Boys Charged With Fe1onious AS
snuit Oh Little Girl Bruce
Doushcrty Drunk With a Razor
Il in His Pocket.
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1.-THE oath of one man is as good as an
other declared a lawyer yesterday 10
Justice John, and the Great Dispenser put
MS hands on the arms of his chair i o keep
from getting excited and told him he was
just as much mistaken as if he had
burned tl:s shirt
The Great Law Giver has his own IDEAS
OF an oath. He Believes a man who Wal
lie without being sworn Will lie under oatn'
and he often takes testimony without so
Ing through The form.
He had already passed upon case IN
which three negroes. ali OF a kind, swore
one way and an officer the other, before
the lawyer sentused the remark, ana ne
took the officers word on which to oase
his Judgment.
The Great Dispenser declared that there
We're a hundred people he could name
whose word is not worth a cent with MIN
and there are many whom he Will beileNe
every word they utter that when Z cttt-
zen comes before him he comes very near
Esowing the value of his OATH
PREMoNIToRY SYMPTOMS.
an the premonitory symptoms pointed
: 10 "a big aay.' in the Ponce Court yester-5
day morning. The pen vas fun OF sinners
of variegated breed and much shutting
and scropging went on in the jim Crow
end of the car.
and forbidden precincts in the Temple
and had to be priced out of lawyers and
I,oIicemens seats. Good standing room
was "a a premium, and there was q buzz
everywhere
The Great Dispenser knew the signs.
and after clearing his desk of the Day S
complimentary gifts, ine!udlifg pe-
ture of President Mckinley, he set the
wheels in motion and never said word
ems, Sag. ms a
hanger, for obtaining S2I.15 from Chas..
L. Wingo under false pretences, Gre
atcd deep interest and developed inter
esting points. Under their contract Mr.
Wingo was to pay the c. O. d. express
charges on certain paper when 1t arrived
Boone told Mr.. Virgo that the charges
were S2I.15, and had a blank notice IN
his hand from Adams Express Company
Mr. WinSo declined to give him his
check until Boone returned to the FIX
press Office and got the Express Com
pany to I'll in@the amount.
The actual charges were only $1Q.e2.
The Express Company's clerk declined
to make the figures for the larger sum
and Boone filed them in himself and took
the paper back 10 Mr.. AVinso and got his
ctrecls for s21.Ta MADE QUITO the Express
Company.
AT the EXPRESS office they sent out
ana oashed the check and gave Boone the
difference.
A HEAVY DISCOUNT.
The latter held that the dealers give
paper-hangers from % to 60 per cent dis
count Oh regular prices and that S2'.'o
was the boois-list price for this amount OF
paper and he had a right to charge AIM
this under their contract Common
Wealth's Attorney Richardson was caiied
in the case and declared the figures IN
40, iSff ut
press Office was token Of fraud
Boone did not return TO do the work
and at the end of three days was arrest
cd He declared he came here from
Washington, but was citizen OF Maftils-
vile, Va, where he has wife ana chiio.
He was convicted and sentenced TO
thirty days in jail and noted an appea..
Tom White (colored) met MT r Al.
Scherrer between and > o'clock sunday
morning On Seventeenth Street while III
an easy rnood. and begged him for some
thing To eat and steered Mi. Scheffer
into Buck Johnson's place, where Tom got
his meal Mr. Scherrer paid for the same
with a 1en-dollar bin. The sight of such
,1llncoly sum in such a place was a dail-
eerous thing TO do. as was proven l ea,,.
Tom White and Eddie HiX followed
Mr. Scherrer from The eat-house, and
when he got into the shade OF Il tree ne
was Knocked insensible and robbed.
White and HiN were sent on TO the grand
Jury for this ofrense, the extreme penalty
being hanging and the evidence quite
conclusive.
FELoNIoUs ASSAULT.
Frank IGinnegan and John Carter. white
youths, were charged viii felonious
assault on Bessie Fund, celored girl
A delivery wagon was rocked on Randolph
Street at . O'Clock Saturday night In the
wagon were four negro boys and Bessie
Fund. twelve years old. The latters skuil
was fractured.
Two OF the colored boys swore that they
Identified one each, Finnegaa and Carter
respectively Several white boys swore that
Ffnnesan and Carter were eight blocks
away at s o'clock, the hour Of the occu-
renee.
The case was continued to the 2ist.
The case of S. It. Atkinson, charged
with ASSEMBLING Frank Snyder. was call
ed, hut Snyder. it was stated. was not
in the city and the case was continued.
j. d. Burford was charged with beat
Ing Emmett Fields (colored)- The beat
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