The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-05
CLEARING DAY in
POLICE COURT.
Delinquent License People Will Have
to Pay Up.
NEW PHASE SERVANT PROBLEM.
Will Not Take Correction and Give
Blows for Words-Woman Bcaters
Swell the City Trcasury-Otto-
way the Pawnbroker'st Friend

Saturday is clearing day in the Police
Court. when all the odds and ends are
finished up for a fresh start for the new
week.
People came in on little business IN
too much of hurry to sit down minute,
stonped on the edge OF the crowd to hear
what the Great Dispenser had to say, got
caught with joke, like a fly with one
foot on hold-fast fly paper, gradually got
interested and stood drinking IN the WORDS
of wit and wisdom of the Great Law Glver
until their dinners were cold on the table
and their notes gone to protest IN the
bank.
CLEARS THE DECK.
The Great Dispenser cleared the DECK
| as RAPIDLY as possible this morning on ac-
| count of about one hundred delinquent
license cases that came before him after
the criminal docket was disposed OF.
About one-third of those reported to
the Great Dispenser a few days ago had
walked up to the Captains Office and set
tied the score, and the Great Dispenser
squared himself to collect the balance like
man with nothing left in the wood-pile
but few oak knots and only dull axe
to split EN-.
It was a bad day for the man who puts
off till tomorrow everything he IS not
forced to do to-day, and it's now case
of put up or shut up.
SHAN'T TOUCH EN-.
The festive woman-beater was on hand
as usual, and the Great Dispenser again
declared, You niggers had just as we'll
make up your minds you shan't touch
these women The Great Woman Pro-
tector had just fined Lewis Reid ten dol
lars for beating Sarah Brown on the street.
Sarah very meek, and perhaps
through fear did not tell the facts. when
the officer spoke up and said he knocked
that woman down in the gutter and then
stamped her.
Then it was the stern Lawslver gave
voice to the above remark, as he raised
Lewis to twenty ard added sixty days in
Jail
James NIckinsley (coloreD was charged
with beating Matilda Smith Matida's eye
was still the color OF a November maple
leaf after wearing 2 raw oyster on it all
night. But James knew the rule and paid
his ten and costs with as little fuss about
it as possible.
Henry Richmond was charged with
similar offense in regard 10 Lavinia Rlcn-
mond but this was a family affair IN
which they had kissed and made up and
the costs was all the Great Dispenser got.
Willie Crewe was also charged with beat
ing his wife George Crewe. According to
her confession, George is bad egg and
could show no marks of the alleged as
sault The case was dismissed.
A NEW PROBLEM.
Mary Starke (colored) for striking the
the lady that employed her, and throwing
at her with rock, was returned to the
pen to await the summoning OF witnesses
Mary is an example OF rapidly growing
complication in the servant problem. She
came from the country to go into service
in the town, but proudly declared TO her
friends that she want gwine to take
no words" and when her employer cor
rected her for sweeping dirt up under the
refrigerator and stuffing wet dish cloths
behind the kitchen press, Mary resented II
with all her native pride and independence
a new problem for the Great Dispenser
to wrestle with is growing UP under his
very nose.
PAWNBROKERs GAME.
Ottovay Howard had the pawning fever.
He pawned his hat, pawned his ring. pawn
ed his vest, pawned his pants, pa"ned
his shoes and pawned his coat.
Ottoway is young, but he is Il pawn
brokers' friend.
Ottoway had such a reputation for
pawning that other people borrowed his
name for pawning and stolen coat was
pawned by q woman in Ottoway's name.
When Ottoway was arrested he had nine
pawn tickets on his person and clothes
enough LETT TO make q PfeSetittbS appeal
ance before the Peoples Court.
nttawav's father promised to do the
right thin: by Getaway, and from the
onincus shakes Of the old mans head.
Ottoway will be sorry ne didn't pawn his
skin.
Alfred Green, alias Sport. a hatiess col
ored adventurer OF fourteen summers,
dressed in shirt-waist, Byronic style. and
his gran6ipas pants. az swcrcd the charge
Of t-espassing on the merry-so-round on
Seventeenth Street. and the following in
spring coloquy took place:
Great Dispenser with a froWn like a
stage VILLAIN. We'll, what about it?"
Sport with a grin as broad as a slice
out Of a wedding cake>. "Yaas, sar;
rid"
Great Dispenser.-"Dia you pay.
S-I-R:!"
Sport with another and broader GRIM
NO. sir, didn't pay: didn't had muffin to
pay Wild
Sport was fined five dollars and went to
| the pen grinning if the whole matter
was a fine joke the Great Dispenser
William Johns (colored. Mr.. P. Whit
locks coachman who was convicted the
| day before of rohbing his employers stab
| lie Of feed, was back again. charged with
stealing a horse-blanket and a rubber
coat, found in a pawn shop.
The case was continued for witness.