The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-05
THE TINES THAT
TRY MEMS .||.! SOULS
When Justice John Does the Best He
Car.
THE OREGON HILL TERRoRs
They Break the Lilacs in the Con-
federate Section III Hollywood.
Ephraim Harris Goes to the
Grand Jury OH Two Charges.

Justice John held an aftermath conven-
tion in the Boudoir before court yesterday
and ad interin2-criminai and civil dockets-
private searce wherein kind-hearted
Mayor Dick Taylor was general counsel
for an earnest little woman with Two
children and husband in trouble.
These are the times that try men souls
and it is here and not on the bench mat
the judgment OF the Police justice mas mas
to stand the strongest assaults
Perhaps, dear reader, you Would turn a
deaf ear to all such entreaties. justice
John he-does the best he can.
GREAT GAMALIiaL.
The Police Court yesterday was
snug alarbor from the keen air on the
outside and a large and appreciauve au-
dence sat at the feet OF the Great CANA
liei of the Big White Chamber, and drank
,, in the precepts and proverbs of which the
; mimical Law-Giver is SO fruitful, as a
thirsty horse robs the fountain.
Daniel Butter, Fleming Pierce and
Henry Chittun, members of the Oregon Hill
Tsrrors, whose escapades around the
kopjes of Oregon HILL have furnished
much material for the records of the po-
lice court, were UP again, charged with
creating disturbance in the street and
breaking flowers in the Confederate sec
ton of Hollywood.
Fleming Pierce was only implicated in
the noise on the street. He declared he
had been a good boy of late, and had no
connection with the charge. The identiti-
cation was not conclusive and Fleming
went free.
Dan and Henry also made general de-
malls, but the witness identified them and
stated that he saw them break the lilacs
in Hollywood and then jump the fence.
TIRED OF EOOLIN'.
The Great Dispenser declared he was
tired OF foolin' with Dan Butler and
Henry Chittum, whom he had let off
| number of times with light purishments
and fined each $40, and placed them UNI
der security of 500 each for their good
behavior for six months, and, in default,
they went to Jail.
Maggie Gibson, an incorrigibe inebriate.
| who was sent to the almshouse some
weeks ago with tine understanding that
she would not leave the premises, secured
| Permission to attend the chapel exercises
Instead of going to chapel she walked
| out of the front door, and was drunk
! when arrested.
| She was sent to jail for three months,
| and while Ell route to the ZEN eased her
feelings by a diatribe against the aims
| house and its management.
| Hester Fowler, coiored, who was dis
| charged from Jail the day before, got
| term OF thirty days.
DPHRAIN1'S TROUBLES.
Willie Braxton, alias Ephraim Harris,
| against whom several charges were pend
F! ing, for several days had been the sub
| ject of investigation by the Sleuths for
| twenty-four hours past, and when ne came
! TO the bar he had no more chance than
| SNOWFALL in August.
The night of March 81 Mr.. ]. a. Thomas
SbaIl "a
| tween Tenth and Eleventh, and was
| knocked down by an unseen hand. When
| he regained consciousness his pocket
| book. with S11 in it. his fine silver watch
| and other possessions were gone.
! The detectives found the watch at a.
| Gilmans pawn shop and he identified Eph-
! ram as the man who pawned 1t, under
| another name. Ephraim claimed to have
gotten the watch from VIM. Robinson, but
| the record shows that at that time Willie
| was reposing in jail, and therefore the
| statement was a bad break for Ephraim.
! He went to the grand jury on the charge
! of felonious assault and highway robbery.
| The servants apartments in the residence
| of Mr.. Andrew Pizzini were robbed of
| clothing and the articles We're traced to
| Ephraim and Ephraim also went to the
| grand jury on this charge.
! TOO LATE.
Berkley Taylor, colored, was charged
with beating Mary cambridge in the Sec
| ond Market during market hours, but
! Mary oversight herself and did not arrive
| until court was over and the case was
| continued.
Albert Hume and James Nixon, small
negro boys, charged with being Migrants,
were committed to the colored reformatory
| for Is months.
| Eddie Jones was charged with being
drunk and disorderly in the barroom of
| Thomas Hannhan. was fined $3.50, and
then the court took recess until L
O'Clock, when the trial Of the long civil
| docket began