The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-10
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{. Locker Robbed BY Devil
thinner and Johnnie Morgan.
GREAT DISPENSER KEPT 3. BUSY.
"A Chinese Laundryman Assaulted in
His own, House by Three Negroes.
a Candidate for tho Co:ored Re-
formatory-Minor Gases.
GREAT DISPENSER KEPT BUSY.

"A
Friday greeted the prince Of law-sivers
Yesterday, and with the large civil docket
to l,o tried at "a o'clock and a long string
Of personal friends who wanted TO get
copy of his guide to success In poiitfcs,
me had little time to give to the Current
Events Club that gather every day IN
the boudoir after the seance In the Bis
White Chamber.
AS A LECTURER.
Tho Great Dispenser was very in
;str1rctiye in his lectures from the
bench. and while in some cases he
forced his opinions on unwilling ears,
there were those present who enjoy
ed them as much as man who watches
a baseball game without cost from MS
window overlooking the park.
The Great Law Giver was exact IN
following the very letter of the law ana
quoted code and ordinance by the square
yard to officers, lawyers and witnesses.
Watson johnson. Illus Shelton ana Wine
Willis, all colored, We're charged with
disturbance on the premises OF Wan Lee
and aSSaultlnS the Chlhainan VIII ioS fH
In his own house.
Officer Amos saw the negroes come out
of Wah Lees laundry and conformation
from the Chinaman arrested them. Wan
Lee tried to tell the Great Dispenser all
about it, and the Great Dispenser being
a little rusty on his Chinese. could not
catch his meaning and tried TO make up
for what he could not understand by
holering questions at the Celestial SO
loud that he made him forget even the
Chinese that he knew.
STICK TO THE Law.
Officer Amos tried to tell what the
Chinaman told him before he. got excl
ted, but the Great Dispenser said that
wasn't law.
He said he proposed to keep an open
door in China, and was going to send
for Sam Yick.
Sam talks English not so pigeonstoed
as the balance of Richmond Celestial
throng, and promises to vote for the
Great Dispenser for Niadarin If he will
move to China. When Sam Yick comes
then he'll put Wah Lees grunts and
squecks into pigeon English and the
Great Dispenser will sustain all treaty
rights between the two nations.
The case was continued one day to
give Sam Yick time to get into his court
costume.
A PRECIOUS PAIR.
A case that created great interest was
the charge against tLonnie DeviD Zin-
mer and John Morgan for robbing T. T
Locker of $50.
Mr. Locker was on a visit to the
city and met up with thinner and Nor
gan in a bar-room at the corner of 18th
and Main Streets, and the Richmond
young men made themselves sociable
and drank at Lockers expense. They
stayed with Locker all the afternoon
and at 1880 at night piloted him tic
George Gray's cheap lodging house, No
1919 Main Street. and all went to bed
in the same room. At $50 a. NJ. Lock
CT awoke and found his trousers, which
he put under his pillow, gone. and also
his acknowledges. The garment was or
the floor and his empty pocket-book
thrown under the bed.
One incident OF the day related by Johr
! Rely, who keeps the bar at Nineteenth
and Main, was that. when Locker order
ed a glass of ginger ale, thinner spiked
the ale with a gill and a half of whisky
while Locker had his back turned.
HAD a GOOD NOSE.
Locker smelled the whisky, and refused
to drink the mixture. Another piece OF
evidence that caused the Great Dispenser
to put his elbows on the desk and lister
! with double interest was that. after the
hour the trio had gone to bed together
thinner and Morgan and George Gray
the clearinghouse keeper, returned tt
Reily's saloon and drank together.
Morgan and thinner visited other bar.
rooms, and exhibited two $50 gold pieces
denomination that agreed with the
money stolen from Locker, and wher
they were arrested in a low resort one
of them tried to drop a 81 note through
his trousers-leg to the ground.
One of the gold double-eagles was re
covered where thinner had placed it, witt
an Italian bar-keeper, for safe-keeping.
The Great Dispenser, with his want o.
confidence in the wisdom of Richmond
juries, decided to do 4 little business OF
his own account and placed thinner ana
Morgan under $500 bond. with penalty
| in default, of twelve months in jail, ant
then, as natter of formality of ths
law, sent them on to the grand jury.
The. young men accused are well known
in Richmond, John Morgan having made
considerable reputation as ball-playe
on the Richmond team. and thinner /!
r"B1ood tells" But we rarely recog.