The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-06
QUEER PRACTICE OF
CITY MAGISTRATES
Make Sure of Their Fees and the
Prisoner Goes.
POLICE JUSTICE FINES THEM
POLICE JUSTICE FINES THEM
A Wife Arrested in Norfolk and Made
to Return to Her Husband in New.
port News-Rev. DR.. Rennie Ac-
cepts the Call to Norfolk.
tspecta, Dispatch to Tho Times.)

NORFOLK, VA, Sept 5.-Justice Tay-
lor dismissed lot Of warrants which
have been accommodating In Officer Roses
possession for some time. and uttered
some sharp criticisms on the practice OF
the magistrates. He said the magistrates
issue warrants for which they collect
fees. and when tina person Is arrested
they bail him, taking what money he has,
obtain their fee out, and give the bal
ance. If any to the State. The balance
is frequently less than the court assesses,
but as the man is gone the court has no
means OF enforcing Its fine without re-
arresting the culprit, whom the mag1s-
trate has practically released. In one case
of Justice Nash, Judge Taylor directed
Officer Rose to collect a $40 fine or bring
the magistrate before him to get the law.
He declared that the magistrates were
usurping the rights of the court simply
to be sure OF their fees.
ILLEGAL PRACTICE.
They had been practicing that Illegal
plan for several years. hence it was with
reluctance that he accepted number
Of the unique fines brought to him as,
what remained after the magistrates fee
was extracted and the culprit was re-
leased on what cash bail he happened to
have in his pocket.
Judge Taylor announced that he will
hold the magistrates strictly to their du-
ties hereafter and will not accept the
fines that they take but will compel them
to pay the balances that stand against
the culprits they shall have released.
Some of these balances were $3.50, So, $3.50,
and other amounts which Judge Taylor
described as unique.
WIFE SENT HOME.
Mrs. Mary Uzzel, of Newport News.
was before Judge Taylor in the Police
Court this morning on the charge of lar
ceny. The evidence was that she took
a satchel and child and fed with them
from her husband She went to Ports
mouth, or said she was going there.
When arrested here she agreed to re-
turn the child and satchel, and was
therefore discharged on the charge of
larceny. She was rearrested and held at
the Police Station. while her sister plead
ed with her to return to her husband
and home. When she was reluctant to
do SO, Chief Veilieres said that he would
have to send her and the child to the
Florence Crittenton Home or to her own
home in Newport News. She finally con-
scented TO so to Newport News. The
statement that she intended to elope
with man in Portsmouth was not sub
stantiated.
Mrs. Uzzels husband works in the ship
yard at Newport News Chief Vellieres
sent an officer with her to Newport News.
DIR. RENNIE ACCEPTS.
Dr. Joseph Rennie, OF Covington, Ky,
has accepted the call of the First Pres
hyterian Church here He will come here,
subject to the approval of the Presby-
terry to which he belongs there, on the
third Sunday in September. His salary
here will be $500 and a house as resi-
dence. He is about forty years of age
and has q. family DR.. C. z. Bishop of
William and Mary College, Williamsburg,
who has been preaching for the past sew
eral months. will deliver the last sermon
next Sunday. DR.. Rennie will come here
with fine reputation for eloQuence as
a preacher and efficiency as a pastor