The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-10

Bud Clements was q prisoner in the
dock in the lower branch of the Police
Court this morning, charged with profan-
| ity and disorderiy conduct. Policeman
Jackson declared that Clements was SO
disorderly on Water Street last night as
| TO attract a large crowd about him He
also declared that Clements had come UP
the river on steamer and had refused to
pay his fare.
The officers of the boat, rather than have
an argument with Clements, who appeared
TO be drunk, were willing that he should
depart without paying for his transporta-
ton. Clements. however, is was said, in
sisted on hanging about the steamboat
wharf, acting in a disorderly manner and
using considerable profanity.
When he Was arraigned Clements was
still drunk. and he evidently realized that
fact, as his Plea was guilty. In detaalt
Of payment of a fine of So Clements VII
sojourn with Intendant Stoutenturgh for a
period of fifteen days.
Isaac Turner. a colored boy, whose chin
barely reached the dock rail, was this
morning the defendant to a charge of dis
orderly conduct preferred by Policeman
Brown According to the policeman the
the boy assembled in Twenty eighth
Street and did crowd and obstruct and iu-
commode the free use of such street. and
| the foot pavement thereof and did prevent
the free and uninterrupted passage IN re-
Of
1t developed, however from the state
ment of the boy that he had simply been
engaged in an innocent game in the streets
and was arrested for practically nothing
That was evidently the opinion OF Judge
Mills as he dismissed the charge against
Turner and ordered him released.
Policeman DTageT appeared as the COM |
plainant against Mary Lewis, colored, who |
was charged as a vagrant. a person OF evil
life and fame, without visible means of
support. The Lewis woman was not guilty
according to her way of thinking, but
Judge Mills was not Of the same opinion. |
and the result was that the woman went !
down for fifteen day vacation a. the ex-
pense Of the District.
Just as Judge Mills disposed OF the case |
against the Lewis woman considerable !
commotion occurred in the hallway leading /
TO the court room. Attention was diverted |
from the court proceedings to the hall /
way. when Policeman Flynn was seen |
struggling with Birdie Brown. a muscular !
colored woman. She had been loud and /
boisterous and refused 10 leave the court j
building when ordered TO do SO. II finally !
became necessary for Policeman Flynn 10 /
take the woman in his arms and carry her |
bodily from the hallway.
The Brown woman kicked. fought, and |
struggled until Policeman Adams took a
hand and aided Policeman Flynn in getting J
the woman into the dock. 1t then required
the assistance of Bailif Kendig 10 keep the /
woman quiet
When she was arraigned the Brown wo- /
man in a rambling and incohereRt way /
talked OF numberless things entirely ir- /
relevant to the charge of disorderly con- |
dr1ar her Har ST TS n
unintelligible potpouTi ana convinced Judge |
Mills that she was not balanced mentally |
The result was that the woman was COM /
mitted to the workhouse pending an eXami- |
nation into her sanity
William Reasley, an intellectual but in |
digent looking man, answered not guilty
to charge OF vagrancy, and then eXpiaIa5 /
that he asked 10 be arrested as he wanted /
TO go TO the poorhouse hospital for treat
ment. He claimed TO be Consumptlye /
and in need of treatment, which he cou /
not afford tc pay for Policeman jacob
son. whom BeasIey asked to arrest him, in
formed Judge Mills that he knew nothing
of the defendant except that he appeared !
to be in very poor health. Judge NILS /
sent BeasIey 10 the workhouse for fifteen
days, with n recommendation that he re-
ceive medical treatment
William Wheeler colored, denied that
he was guilty OF dsorderly conduct in !
Georgetown on August l, but admitted that
he had been disorderly last night. Wheeler |
was charged with two separate offences
and Judge Mills thought him guilty OF i
both. He therefore imposed two fines of s.
each in default of payment Of which Wheel
er went down for an aggregate term OF
thirty days.
It was charged against Richard Payne,
a milkman. that he failed to have the num-
Der of his permit on his milk wagon Payne |
admitted that he was guilty, but claimed
that the permit number was On the wagon |
until the constant swishing of the horses
tall effaced it Judge Mills thought the |
excuse scarcely plausible and imposed
fine of s..
Albert F. Eichelberger. who murderoTsly
assaulted his father, George n. Eichel-
berger, with an ak at their home in Half
Street southwest Wednesday night, was |
today brought before Judge Taylor and
committed to jail without bond TO await
the result of the injuries inflicted upon
his father.
The injured man is still at Providence
Hospital, where 1t was reported that his
chances for recovery had increased.
Walter Bussious, a young man OF re
spectacle appearance, was the defendant |
in the Police Court this morning to
charge of larceny preferred by Peter J. |
Mantel 1t was charged that Bussious
stole SO from the complainant.
Judge Taylor ordered Bussious to pay
fine Of $40 or serve sixty days in jail Lat
er Judge Taylor reduced the fine to $40,
and it was paid.