The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-22

teen Days.
JUSTICE JOHN AN EXPANSIONlST
The Much Coveted Position OF Supe
on the Academy Stage the Result
or Hos,ilitics After the Show
Was over

The Police Court docket yesterday was
as short as "a freight train composed OF
an enjine and one caboose and but for
few continued cases the Great Dispenser
might as well have stayed at home. he
can spread Il few cases over the morning
hour as thin as a step-mother spreads
butter. and everybody left at the emu
OF his slight OF hand performance feeling
that they got their moneys worth.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
The great law of supply and demand
that runs through theoretical politics
like an iceberg swept along by a deep
and unseen current. was the cause OF
q WAY drama in the area OF the Academy
OF Music Tuesday night at the close OF
Viola Allen 5 superb rendluoh Oh HIoiS
QIayle in the religious tragedy, The
Christian.
Twenty supers We're wanted FOR the
play, and there were sixty applicants
assembled back OF the stage early III me
evening, from WHICH TO select the desired
number, and John Graves. the stage
door-kecpcr, made very happy one-hird
OF the number and mortal enemies OF the
two-thirds discarded. especially When he
carried out his instructions, to put of
the stage all not employed for the show
That the lot of Il stage door-keeper is
not happy one Will be shown.
Well. John Z. Enrght. Jr., and John
Graves were up for tghting. Graves said
he had heard that the discarded supers
We're laying for him and when he went
out three jumped on him and beat him
before he had time TO say scat.
WITNESSES GALORE.
EnrightS statement was entirely diff
1erent from Graves, and as their We're
no witnesses there seemed danger OF a
dead lock. and both sides wanted 4 post
ponemeni The Great Dispenser advised
III friendly way that they take their
medicine and not make it cost more by
adding costs and trouble.
Presently witness was found who was
an eye. Witness. and then when he unload
ed they commenced TO rise UP out OF
the ground like Boers in the trenches
al the beginning of a charge, until the
space before the bar was filled with door
Keepers. tiyinen, supers and hangers-on
OF the theatre, and stage terms and tech
nicalities fell around the Great Dispen-
ser's cars like hail on tin roof.
THE ENCOUNTER.
Nobody could tell just how EnIight
got into the act, but he did, and Graves
swore he kicked him in the face after
he was down.
~ a. Sss ipOtAtu Is IL iit lldU DeSil
rush in a varsity football game without
head piece or q nose guard.
Both sides asked Tor 4 continuance,
and then after consultation concluded
they would take their medicine" which
was worth three dollars dose.
TIME TO GET DRUNK.
Robert White, who is sick and suffering
from a broken leg, utilized his vacation
from srovelinS toll 10 get on q bowling
drunk. On account Of his peculiar tempta-
lions and good promises he was given
his freedom.
Rosa Minor. a mulatto Amazon, who
chased John Robinson through a bar
room and stabbed him in the head with
a knife, was arraigned, but the case was
continued because of the failure TO locate
her victim.
Leo Lee and Oscar Slavin were charged
with stealing so cents worth of coal from
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. De-
tective Enright testified that he saw
shen on the car filling their bags, and
they dropped them and ran when they
saw the detective.
1t was also shown that there was a
third party on the car, and the detective
at first declined 10 give his name, for
special reasons. The Court demanded
his name. and he gave it as Ed. Pears
man. whom he said had no bag. and
while he assisted one of the others to
put coal in a bag he did not see him
steal any coal.
SPOTTEIiS.
The Great Dispenser rasped the detec-
tive for making flesh Of one and fowl Of
the other, and made some inquiries about
spoilers, and at the same time declar-
ing he never saw i spotter that was not
worse than the thief.
Young Lee was represented by counsel,
who made an appeal in his behalf. de-
claring the boy TO be the only support Of
q widowed mother. and that his father
was killed in the defence of his country,
at Gettysburg. He also depicted the
snow and biting cold as creating unusual
temptation. The Great Dispenser, who
sometimes is OF an inquirinE turn o.
mind, consulted the record and found
that the day in question was warm and
clear. He also asked the age of the ac-
cused. which was given as twenty-five,
and then reminded the lawyer that the
battle Of Gettysburg was fought 81 years
ago.
IIe gaze the two young men Is days
each In Jail, the lightest sentence. and
issued bench-waIrant for Pearman.