Evening star., 1900-04-18
GIVEN CHANCETO SOBER UP
DEFENDANT SENT TO wORKHOUSE
FOR THIRTY fDAYs.
Ella Dorsey INDUCES In Profane Ian.
guaEe-SeYeral Alleged Migrants
Arraigned in Court.

might before last arrested this man fol
being drunk" said Policeman Dunn tc
Judge Scott this morning, when James NJ
Manuel appeared to answer a charge OF
habitual drunkenness. 1.-The next morn
ing added the officer, 'he was released
about o'clock, and an hour later he was
drunk again"
The prisoners face was badly SCARED and
his condition was extremely nervous.
i've been drinking he admitted, but
I'm certainly not a vagrant'
Were you ever in court before?" Mr..
Pugh inquired.
II was here few weeks ago. answered
the prisoner.
A medical friend of Manuers appeared in
court in his behalf.
Manuel" he said, worked for one firm
for seventeen years, and we lived in the
same house long time. Although we sat
at the dining table together, did not know
until short time ago that he even took a
drink If he is to be sent down 1 think he
should be given medical treatment
He will get proper treatment" the court
days"
Cursed a Chinaman.
Its evidently known that I wasn't
swearing, because 1 had no occasion to do
1t, Ella Dorsey, colored, said when asked
Are you guilty or not guilty?"
Ella was in Chinese laundry last
night cursing the Chinaman" said Police
man Robey. 'she was talking so loud that
people on the street could hear her.
Il had to talk loud said the woman, 'to
make the Chinaman understand me-
Two witnesses testified to having heard
the bad language, and Elias fine was So.
she was given two weeks in default.
Guilty Was the plea of John c. Mccoy,
VINO was arraigned as a vagrant. Il have
nothing to say
Hes been on a drunk" said Policeman
Russell, "and he asks that he be sent down
Tor three months, in order that he may get
the whisky out of him and straighten out. -
Thirty dollars ninety days. said the
judge.
Bessie Keys and Mamie Green colored,
We're tried as vagrants, because they live
in disreputabe house
Ihey were arrested explained a po-
iceman, because of their conduct about
the Division Instead of remaining in the
house where they live they have been in
the habit of standing in the doorway at
tired In their house costumes
Where l came from" said Bessie "any-
body can stand at their front doors with
out getting arrested"
Where are you from?'' the woman was
asked.
"Staunton, Va"
They were fined $40, with thirty days on
the farm as the equivalent.
Boys Sad Experience.
white boy named George Brown ap-
peared in the tolls with two colored girls
whose names were given as Dora Gaskins
and Mabel Smith. Brown is employed as
a waiter in lunch room. He related his
experience and pleaded for forgiveness.
In order to make you fully understand
the case, he said to the judge, III have
to admit that l had been drinking. These
girls took me to house and got my money
When they went out on the street l fol-
lowed them and called murder to attract
a policeman"
And he also used bad language" Po-
liceman Berman told the court
The girls claimed that the boy spoke to
them first. They denied that they took
him to house, and also denied that they
took his money.
The affair happened near the Police Court
late last night. The penalty imposed upon
each defendant was $40 thirty days
I'm from Dinwiddie county, Va" said
James Mcclure. but my home is in Ken.
lucky"
He said he had come here to spend the
Easter holiday, and last night he took a
few drinks.
Il warned him about a violation of law"
Policeman Nussbaum said, land he abused
me-"
i thought he was citizen who was onlv
foolng with me-" said the Kentuckian.
His excuse was not accepted, and he was
fined 50.