The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-06
]. Den e OF GRIM
in HEART OF CITY
Accused and The Witnesses All 60 10
GREAT: DISPENSER VERY BUSY.
a Pitched Battle in Which the Lead
crs OH Both Sides arc Captured.
A Savage Zulu Makes
Attack on II Woman.

a thrce-page docket in the Police Court
told OF the sns OF Richmond.s population
from Saturday night to Monday morning.
end the crop Of rubber-necks did credit
10 the show
The GIeat Dispenser started the week
IN 4 very progressive spirit. determined
: TO hew TO the line, let the chips fall
| where they may, and to carry out the
! rules of his court Of it bust the bi.er"
under the sidewalk Of the City Hail.
l5e hustled around Before court as
!. busy as hen with one chicken and
Strengthened UP his desk so nicely that
:le won't be able to lind u thing for
Week
He came rushing on the bench three
minutes ahead Of time like the ambulance
on hurried call, and created as much
CONSERVATION as the country visitor who
insists on early rising practices in town
house.
A PICKED CHICKEN.
Eddie Nash and Fannie Brown were
charged with stealing coat. pants and
shoes from w. r. Morrissette in the
locality which, appears on the police books
as Louise LEVEL
In the rear of the Sixth-Street Market,
Us al number of buildings, whose ground
floor space is so closely utilized foi
stores, that access is secured to the up
per stories only by narrow, crooked al
aeys and dark stairways, and one Of them
as reached-for want of space-bv a lad
der tackled Perpendcularly to the wall,
projecting through a trap door above.
And this is Louise Level" and here is
a Gen of crime. which the Great Dis
renser pracuced his progressive spirit.
Morrissette was senSeless from intoXi-
cation and was found by an officer sitting
on a window-sill on Sixth Street. his hat,
alis shoes, his coat and his trousers gone,
und of course his money, amounting to
Len dollars. was missing too.
a STARTER
AS start, the Great Dispenser enter
I'D up the charge of suspicious clarac-
aders against the precious pair, and put
them under security for u months.
The evidence showed that Mash had
!s,awned Morrissette's clothes and Fannie
HSrown had on his shoes, and they were
sent on to the grand jury for highway
robbery.
Fannie Davis, Anne Wilson and Fan
!, sic Wilson were called as witnesses for
@i'aanie Brown. and detailed story 50
plainly perjured that the Great Dispenser
entered charges against the trio as sus-
picious characters and put them under
% s,ond for SO days, and the entire gang
r. went to the pen toSetner-a set whose
T>7ooks were worthy OF the habitation Of
( the uneasy name.
3. A DRUNKEN ZULU
E2a Isaac brOHn tcoloTed}, a savage Lulu,
E only partly civilized. clad in Beard, heavy
= boots and coat of rags of many colors.
{ twas charged with beating Sally Kelly.
s.sfThe woman was found by Officer john
ee.Nson lying senselesS from his blows and
consciousness only after treat
II anent by the ambulance surgeon.
= isaac plead drunkenness as his eXtenu-
p: p atton- Twenty dollars and months was
Il this portion.
rTay1nr (coloraT1 did no iotrani6
tEHilng of fighting in the Second Market
I @and escaped with the loss of IS and 4 few
costs.
/. John jefferson (colored) threatened to
!S~3zill Mr.. Norman Jordan and otherwise
do him bodily harm.
This was Mr.. Jordans story. He was
driving in the neighborhood in a buggy
with his wife. when a negro riding a
horse in a reckless manner rode into
Eis buggy. breaking the vehicle and
nearly throwing his wife out
He demonstrated with the negro, who
had added insult TO injury by cucsing
him. Mr.. Jordan grappled with the man
and while they were clinched John JEFF
1erson ran up with knife and was
about to carve Mr.. Jordan in the back.
when a passing citizen diverted his at
tention by blow with iland-saw.
The other negro escaped and jefferson
was arrested. He was fined SO and put
under bond for 70 months.
BATTLE ROYAL.
Dan Butler, who Is the youthful Agu-
naldo of his ncighborhood organized a
band of his faithful followers from the
south side Of Broad street and started
out to capture his ancient enemies. the
Maccabees. on the north side OF Broad,
but Ernest INnolle. the willy leader of
The Maccabees' scouts was on the alert
und hurriedly gathered brave company
OF ten for defence. Though small! IL
number. the MaccabeeS We're strengthened
by the knowledge that their homes and
alleys were about TO be invaded. and put
up the hottest rock-battla i'll the history
OF the West END for many moons.
When the Butterflies marched UP Pine
street they found the fierce knolles en-
trcnched behind the llopjes on the OPP
posite side of Broad Street. the Trac-
/ lion Company lines being veritable Tu-
1 gela river for a line of battle
The battle waged hot and fercelv} and
y,rojecties thrown with snolleless powder
! broke windows on both sides of the
: street. and even shutters failed to stand
che lydditc shells OF the terrible Butler
ties.
Though the ten Knolles withstool the
terrible assaults Of the Butterflies nobly,
they would. perhaps. have succumbed to
superior numbers had not Officer Hatton
Aulos. shielded by telegraph poles. tree
boxes and other street jungle. crcpt up on
the combatants and secured, the iwo ring
leaders and Elmo Starlie
The officer could not testify that he
cav Starke throw. and. according TO his
rule, the Great Dispenser let him go. but
the leaders o. The two fierce tribes he
fined So each
STOLE CONDENSED MILK
Junius Oliver. colored. sixteen years
old. stole a can Of condensed milk from
Z delivery wagon Could give no reason
for stealing it. lie said the can was there
and he was guilty, but didn't know why
he took it. he went down for ninety
Gays
Egglcston Lee is black and seven years
cid and small for his age. He has no
parents or other responsibilities and
made his living like a stray dog. accept
,ng what people gave him and stealing
the balance.
He stole 3, silver watch from ". H.
Tyler, and broke into a grocery store
at the corner OF Cherry and Cary, and
after eating HIS NIL went TO sleep and
was found there by the proprietor next
1pornipfy 10 To- ar roll.