The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-06-25
POLICE
COURT
OPENED THURSDAY MORNING BY
MAYOR Grille WITH SIX PRIS-
oNERS SITTING IN THE
ROW.
All Were Charged With Being Either
Drunk OF DisOrderly and Were
Given Fin1s according to the
Seriousness of Their
0fense.

Like ants swarming from crushed
sand hill, the city prisoners scrambled
out Of the iron cages in the Green Room
at police headquarters this morning.
when two of the blue-coated attendants
unclaimed and unlocked the large swing
ing iron doors that stood between them
and liberty.
In the Green Room the prisoners were
formed in parade line and in step to the
imitation brass drum music rendered on
an old tin pan with the official broom
by Jauitor Higginbotham, they marched
in solemn and diniied mein from the
Blue Room to the engine house OF jus
tice.
City Clerk Cole shifted the belt on
the big ny wheel and turned on the gas.
The machinery in Municipal Hall began
slowly to grind. The prisoners turn.
ed ashy,. pale when they looked up TO-
wards the High.1Iucketie- SIauck Of the
Municipality and saw that stern ana IN
compromising glare fastened upon his
countcnance. One or two OF them shi ted
their feet nervously. The cops in at
tendance assorted the bcdrasgled deni-
zens Of the bar rooms along in the seats
OF Prisoners Row. There were six Of
them. One Of them was an old man.
lie looked ike he was about half in.
Another was a yOungster, Of the cigar
cite variety. He has creases in his trous-
ers and white vest around his belly
band On his feet we're CLASSY patent
leathers. and his hair was carefully rak-
ed from the center Of his cocoamt-shap-
ed top.not down towards each ear. Upon
his alabastcr forehead the foremost
strands of his soaped locLlets hung over
his eyes, lyre-shapcd. He wore look
OF sassiness on his upper lip and chin.
The other prisoners We're Just plain
..rummies."
The old Man was given precedence ac-
eording 10 the old adage of age before
beauty The Observation-Disclosures
turned his eyes upon the man and asked
him how he got there. The old man
didn't remember. Remember. He knew
he wasn't drunk. The High Mucketie-
AlaucEs compassionate emotions we're
aroused, and he discharged the old man,
and wiped a salty tear away from his
eye.
The next man was down and out in
hurry. He plead guilty and was fined
before City Clerk Cole could catch his
breath. The return card WAS attached
10 the prisoner and he was told to stand
aside. The card gave him permission 70
room at headquarters for three days
The next person was an old regular.
The mayor recognized him. He was
asked why he deliberately lied to the
mayor few days ago, when he prom
ised never to get drunk again Hf.
couldn't remember just exactly why he.
did His return check called for five
days.
The youngster Of the cigarette Va
riety and one of the rummies, whom ne
claimed as his chum, we're up next. They
had the charge Of disorderly conduct read
!, tbom Cigarettes said he had gone
into Inc old John Comma fruit stand
apd bought two packs Of coffin nails,
They wanted to make him pay for three
packs and he wouldn't stand for it. !
row started and before he realized the
seriousness Of his mistake he was clasp
inr the bars in the city jail. Cigarettes
claimed Central lis place Of abode and
his cbummie owed his living 70 Penns-
boro, The mayor told them to find their
respective dwelling places and never
show their faces in Clarksburs ogam.
They promised and disappeared through
the front door.
The last man said he was from Web
ster county. That one statement con-
tanned the plea Of guilty, a. well a, the
information. He was sent back ~ one
of the cops to spend three-day,' sen
tencc.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cast a
Sleeps eye at Barlow Cole. The latter
got up from his chair and turned of ths
gas. He slipped the belt from the slowly
revolving fIy wheel. The machinery came
to a stop. The cops fled out Of tho
room. the curtains we're drawn and The
place turned over to Uncle John Steele
and Hugh Callahan