The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-19
JUISTIIIC JOIN
Has A BUSY DAY
.Disposes Of Ordinance vioIators at
the First.
BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE.
The Visiting odd-F'ellows Re.alcd
With a scvcntcenih-strcct Ne
gro Bar-room i;ow-Grand
Jury Cases.
Disposes of Ordinance VioIators at.
BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE.

The Great Law Givcr had a long bus
mess preamble to the fancy work of his
tribunal this morning with citizens who
booked an alley with boxes let their
mules run loose In Capital Square at night.
allowed a sidewalk to DE and remain in 3,
dangerous cort:iltion. Kept b eating calves
in their back YARDS to the annoyance of
the neighborhood, blocked the sidewalks
on Gary Street, run one-horse wagon
without license, and otherwise fractured
the backbone of the city ordinance
A GOOD CROWD.
The Temple Of Justice, where presdes
the Great Regulator OF human affairs
was packed like herrings in a box, and
all CLASSES of citizens stood cheek by jowl
for two hours listening to the common
sense distribution of the law.
The visiting Odd-Fellows of the day
before passed around the word accord
ing to their cabalistic signs in the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge, and a committee
of the whole was on hand to garner in
the wit and wisdom of Richmond's Non
pareil Lawgiver.
They We're RECALLED with a regular Sew
enteenth-Street negro bar-room row.
Salina Freeman (cslored a female
bar-keeper had some friends down from
Washington, and according to the I'M
other bar to do her drinking, and de-
string to make an impression of aris-
tGcracy ON her visitors. took them to
the saloon of Spottswood, commonly call
ed Buck" where no less a parsonage
than Isaac Newton serves the drinks.
NOT HANDSOME.
Salina declined to be waited on by
Buck who does not go for handsome but
rather by Sir Isaac Newton, "a more pre-
possessing man, and said SO.
Buck took exceptions. and struck Saina
in the face, broke a ballard cue over her
shoulder. and when Salina stuck her claw
in his cheek she stuck a finger in Bucks
mouth, Whereupon he commanded to
chew, and she let so.
According to Buck, all four people then
piled on him.
The police got the gang. Salina Free
man and Sallie Hill for creating a dis
turbance in Buck Spottswood's bar-room,
or as Buck put it, "they raised James
Henry
VIM. Brady was charged with ASSAULT
iEg Buck Spottswood with a salt-celar,
and VIM. Henderson with carrying con-
cealed weapons.
Policeman Werner created diversion
by saying that VIM. Henderson ran into
a blind alley or they never would have
caught him. He saw William pitch a
pistol away and secured a light and
found it. All four were fined $40 each
for disturbance and Wm. Henderson fined
$50 and sent to jail for carrying concealed
weapons.
ASSERTED HIS RIGHTS
Robert Anderson (colored) loaded him
self with tive-cent shorts and tried to
force his way into the main entrance Of
the Academy of Music, and Officer Brad
ley was called to put him out.
Robert 3. Gaines, his companion, also
in liquor, interfered and defed the Of
fcer to arrest them. Il is needless to
say that with the use of the police wagon
ne landed them at the station and after
paying IS and $40, respectively, and endur-
ing a bit of irony from the Great Dis
penser, they retired soberer, wiser and
poorer men.
Andrew Johnson and Irving Tucker, for
striking Gilbert Rogers in the street, were
fined s. each.
Alexander Taylor (colored) was ar
raigned for the felonious shooting of
Peter Austin in the formers bar-room.
DR.. Gils stated that Austin was probably
in dying condition at his home, No. S24
North First Street. The case was con-
t:nued and Justice Tyler instructed to
take iis ante-mortem statement.
A BAD PAIR
Florence Saunders and Johnnie Nor
gan were charged with being suspicious
characters. Their offence was trying to
rope in" strangers in town with a view
of robbing them. They We're locked up
until after the Odd-Fellows' convention
visitors are gone.
Florence is a parasite Of the lowest
stripe and Johnnie Morgan. once the hero
Of the Richmond baseball diamond has
fallen so low as TO be her companion in
infainy.
The case of Paul Jones, charged with
shooting James Tyler, a colored bow.
whose arm was amputated as a result.
was again continued, TO await the recovery
OF the wounded boy.
Alexander Griffin (colored), charged with
cutting his stepfather. William TAYLOR.
with knife, was sent on to the grand
jury. DR.. Bromley Foster testified that
he was cut in five places, the wounds
being stab-wounds. The fight occurred
because William Taylor was beating his
wife, the boys mother.
W.,B. Berry, charged with SHOOTING Alica
White, showed that at 2 o'clock in the
morning some one threw a rock through
the window Of his bar-room, in Peniten-
tiary Bottom. Berry ran out and fred
his pistol into an old dump to scart. the
marauder. and Alice White, passing across
the field, caught the ball in her thigh
Berry was discharged.
The smaller cases were disposed of with
the usual fines.