The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-07
NORFOLK AS.R ( | /: ]
An EXTRA SESSION.
Petition President Roosevelt to
Call Congress together
TO SETTLE The. COAL STRIKE.
Suit Against Lawyer Morris by Client.
Two Men Fall from Windows and
One is kilIed-Prisoners DO
Not Like the New Jail.

fSneciaI Dispatch to The Times)
## NORFOLK, "a. Oct. Suit has been
entered against p. Morris for Tnisap-
propriating $1,000 of a woman client.
Morris was recently disbarred from
IRA ctice in the court here for having
given bogus decree of divorce to Wo-
man client. He says in explanation OF the
present suit that he borrowed the 1noney
and had paid interest and part Of tie
principal when his adlsbarmenlsc CAN 20
stop his business.
A. petition was circulated here to-day
for signers asking President Roosevelt
to convene Congress to settle the coal
strike.
George T.. Stevenson and his wife en-
tered suit to-day against the Bay Shore
Railway. They were in the accident e
August 24th, and ask for Sl0,Ooo eacn ca
account of personal injuries.
FELL FROM WINDOWS.
Two men fell from windows here yes
terday. one was killed, the other es-
capped almost unhurt- The latter, ". II:
Brown. q. white man, fell from the third
story window in East Market at 1:3o y.
NJ His head is cut and his back W.
bruised, but he is not seriously hurI ! ne
fall was broken by wire clotnss me.
Brown is a tailor who works Tor heennS
and Miller, and is supposed to have teen
asleep and intoxicated. He is Adult
twenty-five years old.
Henry Stevens fell from the se:oni
story window Of No. 331 Church Street,
suffered from a confusion OF the ora'h
and died Instantly. The accident haopen-
ed at O'Clock in the morning and
Stevens is supposed to have been drink
ing. He was fifty-two years old ana
grinder in a plow factory.
DON'T LIKE NEW JAIL
Contrary to expectations. the prisoners
don,t like the new jail It is too clean
and airy and light But the chief feature
of "reminiscences is that Of social exclu-
slveness In the old Jail it was lmpossl-
bic to keep the prisoners in separate ceils.
There were too many prisoners ana noe
enough cells In the new Jail there are
14I cells and they are sufficiently large
for two persons, despite the fact that one
may have to get outside to change ms
mind. But while those cells are desirable
in respect to cleanliness and light. the
prisoners VINO care for social intercourse,
feel the restraint of confinement keeniy.5
There is no singing and dancing anu
fighting in the free and informal ways or
the dirty old jail in which many Oh them
delighted to stay.
OLD TIMERS OBJECT.
These old timers have already declared
their objections to the new Jail because
Of the exclusiveness of its steel cells and
corridors, and they declare that they
viii not return to it hereafter.
The Sunday-schools classes of c. p Lew
is. and his sweet tenor voice, as he leads
the choir do not compensate for the lack
of fornality in the social intercourse of
the old Jail, where the prisoners were
herded like hogs-wfere a fight was di-E
version, and singing and laughter were
always provocative of dancing and hilar-s
ity and noise. The new jail is silent and
the prisoners are sad and solitary.
BISHOP SMITH TO LEAVE.
Bishop A. Coke Smith preached a fare
we'll sermon to the congregation of Ep-
worth NJ E. Church yesterday. He said
he had been in Norfolk longer than at
any other place, and that he will leave
here with the keenest regret.