The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-02
QUA
HAS BEEN ,A1IISED.
Great Dispenser DEGREES That Straw
Hats May be Worn.
NEMESIS ON. CHARLES TRACK
Officer Forster Makes a Timely Capture
a Woman Fined Double for Rcins
Drunk - MIR. Hall Loses II is
Head and Hunts Another.

There was a goodly gathering of tex.
payers and some who don pay SO many,
to. watch the Great Law Giver dispense
justice to the multitude according to the
ways of Soloman, with pneumatic tire ana
x ray improvements.
The first day of May was feralded in
by unmistakable signs of the season
around the Big White Chamber.
The springs were off the doors,
and the entrances wide open, while the
noises Of the street were waited Ill
through windows down from the
top-and the Great Dispenser appeared IN
a last-year's straw.
This is a thoughtful act on his az.
for many OF his constituents, whose teit
heddgear is fuil of Roles, and VINO nave
watched for many days with ANXIOUS
hearts for the Great Dispenser to break
the bonds Of w-nter fashion,
LAST YEARS BIRDS NEST.
The Mackina,r that shaded the sun
from his eyes during many hdid-ioi sllt
battle upon the diamond in the year OIL
our Lord 1889 now graced his noble brow,
and a murmur of satisfact on swept the
crowd as he stood silhouetted in the
doorway straw-capped harbinser OF the
heated term.
Straightway went the multitude home
to take the glad tidings that the quar-
aptine against straw hats had been
raised by the Great Dispenser.
He himself felt the hopefulness, the
revivification, of the spirit of spring, and
inquired with fervent interest in regard
to the opening ball game at the park.
The cases before him We're OF more
than usual interest.
FORSTER LAYS a TRAP.
Police officer w. 7. Forster was
Illuminating around the corner Of Seventh
and Franklin Streets at I O'Clock =. NJ.
listening fer day to break. when he was
brought To- attention by -swiftiy-fyins
feet, and Charlie Lee (coloreD came
down the street like a runaway horse.
Forster planted himself in Charles
pathway, at the same time spreading his
coat-tails, as ordinary people 90 when
they want TO stop runaWayS, ana Char-
lie was trapped.
No sooner was Charlie in the clutches
of the minion of the law than Ella Wat
son (colpred) came dashing down his
track, impelled by the knowledge that
Charlie had $3.50 Of her money and her
watch.
The money was found on Charlie, and
also the watch. an: the only 1hi:;g that
saved Charlie from the penitentiary was
the admission of the girl that She told
Charlie to take he watch to have it
fixed. and the watch was in the pocket
book with the money. The event might
not have been SO unluCky for Charlie
had he not entered among tee also ran
Charlie was given six months fiat in
Jail for stealing, and was put under
security for twelve months, making a
total sentence of eighteen months.
RATHER GAY.
Bertha Blair (colored> rather gay in
a spreading hat and soaring feather, was
charged with trespassing on and creating
a disturbance IN The premises CT a.
Johnson.
Bertha pleaded an unfortunate condition
as extenuation, and claimet1 a lapse of
recollection.
The Great Dispenser, with hard-hearted
severity, fined her double for being
drunk, and renewed his trade prohibiting
women from getting drunk in Richmond.
Bertha paid So.
Lulu Pollard made a grevous mis-
take. She attempted to practice her wiies
on an unassurning gentleman on the street
at night, and when he threa tened her
with arrest she resented the suggestion
in impressive language.
The aforesaid unassuminS gentleman
happened to be a ma gistrate clothed with
powers second only to the powerful po-
tentate on the throne before which hapless
Iulu stood, and he turned Lulu over TO a
Policeman stralghtway.
The maiden made a coy defence and said
eft l had er knewed he was a protective.
I wouldn't sed what I sed.
And Lulu got six months
Jeff Woodson, colored who tried the
grab. game on Frank Reid, refusing to re-
turn him change, was required to make
restitution to the last farthing and morrow
er. pay the cost of the court, and also
given a healthy warning for the future.
NEIGHBORS FALL OUT.
Mr.. j. E. Hall was charged with tres
passing on the premises OF his next door
neighbor, and with striking and beating
Mr.. W. Z. SIcGeorge, a poarder OIL TIC
said neighbor.
The two houses in question are twin
tenants and only a low railing divides the
front porch, and remarks made on one
porch are easily heard on the other, anu
cause qualification or annoyance accord
ing to the amount Of carbonc aclo Win
which they are charged.
Well. Mr.. Halls next-door. neighbor
Mr.. Bruce McLeland, has number OF
young men in his house and his council
referred iocuIarly to the fact that they
were from the country. They did not smut
the gate as they went to and fro ana Mt.
Halls dog jumped over the raining 20 ne
McLeland side and went into the Street
through Mr.. &Ieland's gate and MT. Halls
i,rotonr remarked on the fact, SAYING
that 1.-The gang did not know how TO smut
the gate. -
Mr.. McLeland, the new neighbor, over
heard the remark that. was not INTENDED
10 be heard and retorted that Mr. Han
had better come and show him how, ana
them the boarders were told that thes
had been called "a gang.
The matter went out Of Mr.. Hans neao
COULDN'T KEEP II.
II u;d llrom the Children.