Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08
WANT AZ NEW BRIDGE
ALEXANDRIA COUNTY CITIZENS
APPEAE TO CONGRESS.
Ask That Aqusduet Structure Be Dis
placed by Better 0ne-County
Court Proceedings.

upon the proposition to request the coming
Congress Of the United States to make an
appropriation for building new bridge In
the place of the old Aqueduet bridge, SO
that electric cars can come into the city of
Washington from the Virginia side. instead
OF having to stop at the bridge, as they do
now. 1t Is thought by many that the pres
ent Aqueduct bridge Is too narrow to admit
OF the electric car tracks. On account Of so
many vehicles passing and repassing over
the bridge. they fear that the horses might
become frightened at the electric cars,
causing frequent runaways, with serious
results. and they believe If a wider bridge
was there this trouble would be obviated.
Inc United States government recently
purchased a strip of Hand, from the Aque-
duct bridge to Fort Myer and Arlington,
sixty feet wide, to be used as public road.
Inc government has never owned road or
right OF way from Washington by way of
the Aqueduct bridge to the military post at
Fort Myer and the National cemetery at
Arlington but has simply been using road
over lands to which it had no title, since the
commencement of the late civil war in 1861.
During the last twelve months the govern
ment purchased from the land owners the
military roadbed, and strip of land be-
side. which will make the road of good
width. The deed to this road and strip of
land has been recorded at the county court
house of Alexandria county. and 1t is I'M
derstood the government will grade and
macadamize the highway.
County Court Proceedings.
The county court of Alexandria county,
Judge James NJ Love presiding, adjourned
yesterday for the term. During this term of
court Judge Love disposed of nearly thirty
cases. During the last day of the court
Robert Jackson was tried for an assault,
and his fine and costs fixed at $50. with sem
tence Of four months in Jail.
commemorative Attorney James E.
Clements filed a written accusation of con-
ing to impede the administration of justice.
An attachment was issued by the judge,
and Grandson was arrested and brought
before the court. Evidence was produced
to the effect that early Thursday morning
last he came 10 the Jail and got permission
to speak to one of the prisoners: that he
gave to the prisoner a note to two witnesses
for the commonwealth who were held in
Jail for the purpose of testifying against
Walter Magruder, charged with selling in
toXicating liquors on the Sabbath day: that
Grandson in his note informed the two wit
nesses that If, when they were brought into
court, they would swear they never bought
any liquors in Nj Magruder's restaurant at
Rosslyh on the Sabbath day there was 500
apiece in 1t for them
After hearing the evidence Judge Love de-
cided that the acts of Grandson were gross
ly in contempt of,court, and after informing
Grandson that he was sorry the punish
ment was not greater he gave him the full
extent of tine law, sentencing him to pay a
fine of $50 and to be confined in the county
Jail ten days. and inbdefault of the payment
OF the $50 fine be further imprisoned for
the period of ninety days.
Appeal Refused.
The attorneys for Thomas Muntz who was
last week convicted in the county court of
being the promoter of a poker game and
sentenced to pay fine Of 500 and TO be
imprisoned in jail for two months, made ap-
plication to Judge Love to grant him an ap-
peal, but the judge refused to grant the ap-
peal upon the ground that before Muntz's
trial was ended he escaped from the court
house, forfeiting his bond and is now a
fugitive from justice. 1t is understood that
CONFERENCE.-The Attorney Clements will
apply to the governor of the state for a
requistion for the capture of Muntz if he
does not come back to the state and deliver
himself up to the authorities of the county
within the next twenty days.
Over a Poker Game.
D. Hannah of Washington city, who was
ago of being unlawfully engaged in playing
a poker game at Rossyn the 18th instant,
has noted an appeal from the county court
to the circuit court of the county presided
over by Judge c. E. Nicol His attorneys.
Machen & Moncure, claim that the playing
of poker Is not a violation of law, and that
the court of appeals of Virginia has so de-
cided in a case that went up to that court
fIom Richmond in 1878, but the common
wealths attorney claims that the game of
poker unlawfully played at the present
date, with it's unlawful surroundings, exhib-
itors and gambling environments and de-
vices, is very different from the old, harm
less sociable game of poker played a quar-
ter of century ago. The case before Judge
Nicol will be warmly contested and his de-
cision upon the question as to whether poker