The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-18
SHOWMEN SENT
TO GRAND JURY
White Chamber Packed With a Dense
Throng.
GIVES VISITORS FULL SWAY
wh,, ,y,c Ral;ay.d m 20 D;o,.
White Chamber Packed With Dense
GIVES VISITORS FULL SWAY
What Was Believed to BE !, Pick
pocket Turns Out TO BE Cap
per FOR Gambling Game
Ncishbors Fall Out.

Now won't you be good? cries the Great
Dispenser as he tries his best these days
to give people all the latitude possible
in following the dictates of Carnival
pleasures While at the same time ne de-
mands that they shall respect the law
and the rights of others.
The Police Court this morning was
packed with an intensely interested
crowd They were allowed to stand in
heretofore sacred precincts, and overran
the Big White Chamber as il it were a
Fashionable church during swell we'd
ding.
The ladies were there il force, and for
the first ilme in history the police officers
had 10 stand While visitors occupied
their bench.
They ti1ied the area between the bar
and bench, and crowded the Great Dis
penser to the very elbows on the throne
The Great Lawgiver surrendered ali of
his -honored exclusive privileges TO
the visitors. except the right 10 talk.
As usual, this honor he pre-empted before
the court was called, and made no diVi-
sion with anybody during the day.
SHCSNNliIN lN TROUBLE.
The piece de resistance for The day
was the charge against Bomba Carlo and
King Carlo, the Two leading Indians IN
the Bostock Mexican buLl-fsht show, OF
a feonious assault on Isaac Green
(colored}.
The evidence of the members of the
show was all favorable TO the prisoners.
The witnesses were Wild Mark; Al Bur
ton, a boy; Happy Jack. Mrs. Carlo,
White Cloud Nebraska Bin ana the two
accused prisoners, who are brothers, and
apparently half-breed Indians, bat intelli-
gent men, and entirely familiar with the
English language.
The row grew out OF the cutting of the
tent in the rear by some negroes, vino
We're struck with a bull-whip in the hands
OF Bomba Carlo, and they threatened TO
Kill the Indian
While on the "Ballahoo' stage, where
the free performance is given, in front
OF the tent the same negroes took their
stand, and abused the Indian. Bomba
jumped from the stage after the negro,
who threatened 10 assault him.
The evidence was that Bonlba struck
Isaac Green with a revolver, and that
King Carlo struck him with an Indian
war-club. The testimony was very con-
Trajectory, and 10 an unbiased mind it
negro who deserved punishment, and, by
mistake, selected Isaac Green, who was
an innocent victim.
Bota men were sent TO the grand jury.
WOMEN FINED.
Mr. j. \. Baker and Mrs. Mary Baker
We're charged with abusing and assaultins
Mrs. Lizzie Grey. Mrs. Baker hung her
+: esh-washed clothes III the yard in rear
of her mansion. at the corner Of Twenty
first and Main Streets, and Mrs. G,.ey
threw a carpet on top OF The fence and
the dirt went all over Mrs. Bakers fresh
washed clothes Mr.. and Mrs. Baker re-
monst"ated With Mrs. Grey and volume
of words and epithets passed. anu later on
Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Grey came to blows.
The Great Dispenser devoted himself to
cold facts in this case, and, as quick as
they were elected, he fined the women
$2.50 each and dismissed the man.
j. r. Clements and Matte Smith had a
rev about dog, and Winston c. Dabney
came up and took a hand.
The officer testified that when he '.came
up, all three We're scrapping, and you
couldn't tell who was who"
They were inpartially fined $3.50 each
Ward Hunt, white man arrested as a
suspicious character and believed by the
officers VINO made the arrest, to be q pick
pocket, was arraigned.
BY CONSENT.
The testimony was that he was seen to
put his hands in other mems pockets.
Though the evidence was not specific, it
developed that Hunt was a capper for
fakir game on Broad Street Other cap
pers would win large sums OF money be-
fore the eyes of the greedy throng and
then triunphantly back out into the crowd,
when Hunt. who was one of the same
party would relieve their pockets of the
money and return it 10 the stand to be
again won as a bait to the crowd
Hunt was, of course, dismissed.
Godfrey Davis. a small black AMI very
ragged negro, was charged with being a
suspicious character, and was arrested by
a special officer, who knew him, on Broad