The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-13
s1Wenty-four Liquor Dealers
are in the Police Court.
APPEAL FOR JURY TRIAL
Mayor Riddick is Non-committal in Re-
gard TO Changes in the Police Force.
Commissioners Have Requested
Capt. Princes Resignation.

several months OF frulness effort the
Il liquor sellers of Importance were brought
Into the Police Court this morning on
warrants charging them with opening
their saloons on Sunday during the
] month OF January for the sale OF liquor.
4 There were twenty-four warrants in all,
q few OF which were assessed with fines
and the remainder were continued for
! trial, come on the 18th and others on
file 18th Of this month. Tho warrants
did not cause much stir, because, as
heretofore, the cases will be appealed to
the Corporation Court, where the jures
nave been In the habit OF RENTING the
fines Imposed by the police justice. The
devldence Is rarely ever sufficient to con-
Z Vince the juries that the liquor dealers
I have violated the laws. The average
Il Juror does not place great confidence in
n the evidence OF the detectives, and he Is
: frequently not in sympathy with the adj
administration in the rigid enforcement of
The laws. That Is why oil OF the cases
were appealed and why. perhaps, the
bases under the present warrants Will
] Be appealed to the Corporation Court
Ind tried before a Jury.
Mayor Riddick declined to say anything
this morning in regard to the proposed
shake-up of the police force, or about
the resignation of Captain Prince, for
which the commissioners OF police have
asked The statement that the gossip
on the street is that the cause of the re-
mova1 Of Captain Prince Is the rupture
between James e. Prince the saloon
owner and politician, who supported
Mayor 1uddick in this campaign, did not
1 induce the Mayor to make an answer TO
I the question OF what explanation he had
/ to offer. He said simply that he had
nothing to say. The impression is that
1 he Is waiting to hear first what Cap
y tlt.. Prince and his brother have TO say,
and then the Mayor proposes to accept
y the advantage of answering IT. with
i; charges OF favoritism or with statements
that Captain Prince was not in har-
mony with the administration and was
gprcveated or Handicapped in carrying out
the instructions OF the commissioners Of
police. There will be pretty quarrel
when the controversy starts. It Will
/ mean the defeat or the triumph Of this
administration. 1t will be hot fight.
s G.ARLANDS RESCUED.
The British steamer Garlands. which
4 went ashore at Kennikeet Life-Saving
a Station early Sunday morning, was pull
ffS ed off at 8 o'clock this morning by the
Il AID sof the three Luckcnbach wrecking
tugs. The wind and the tide were fa-
ss5vora BILE for the first time since the YES
Il sel went ashore. and the tugs took adj
of both. The Garlands Is esti-
4 mated to be worth $500. 900. and she will
1 be brought here for repairs, and to be
4 reftted to continue her trip to Will
F4nington. N. c. where she was bound
caught In the thick weather and forced
sssashore by the gale. 1t Is great tr-
lssumph to have saved n vessel lying in
| three feet of water when she needed
| Seleven to float her.
There were two burials by the city to-
III day In the strangers lot of the Elmwood
Cemetery. One was the body of the man
who was murdered in negro dive a
month ago, who Is known as Charles r.
Ri Hunter, or ]. II. Alien. No one has an
81 peared. rio identify the man, although the
/ police believe the brother of the dead
man came here and declined to inter-
4 fere after he learned the particulars of
sgS5 his death. The other was the body OF the
g. Italian shoemakerh Giacopno Cato. who
is supposed to.i,ate committed suicide
b by shooting himself. The latter has a
i Il brother living In Portsmouth, but he was
not able to undertake the expense of the
{ burial.
ss88 8. D. Saunders, OF Williams. va; mer-
4 chant, filed petition in bankruptcy this
Ealnorning in the United States District
Court. The debts are stated at SG36.35
ard the assets at $l60. There are but two
Z debts mentioned, one of j. S. Moore,
I Richmond Va, Judgment of February,
1891. for s5s635 and II. j. Anderson. Stnun-
ton. Va. $50 The property In the schedule
/ ls household goods, 500; horse, $50 and
/ carriage. $40
y. NJ. cahoon was on trial to-day for
& Shooting Captain w. S. Toolser in No
n yenber. The shooting occurred on ac-
fcount OF the quarrel between the two men
ii IN regard to the attentions of the young
II man Cahoon to the elder mans wife
a Captain Tooker testified tothe statements
II confessions and other evidences he had
Of the alleged intimacy, and put Other
witnesses forward to show the cause he
had for hating Cahoon. The defense at
attempted to prove that Captain Toolel
had made threats against the life Of Ca
shoon, SO that the latter acted In defense
3a Of his life when he shot Captain Tooke
i On meeting him In the station of the Al
ssElantic Terminal Company, on which ront
3a84 the defendant was motorman at tn
/ time OF the meeting when the shooting
occurred. One Of the defendants wit
& neses said he had heard Captain Tooke
XII say that he intended to meet Cahoon Il
3 the station, and that he would raise he
y by shooting. so that tho people woul
.hink It was the Fourth of July Anothe
4 witness for the defense said Captain
b Tooker had pulled cartridges from hi
pocket and said these are to be used O
3 Eahoon.'
y ed with spectators, among whom Their
ik were a number of women who were inter
ssted In the trial. After the speeches o
sSs The lawyers. which lasted nearly tw
hours, the jury came in with a verde
Of not guilty within five minutes. Cahoo
WAS discharged from custody.
saYf DIVORCE GRANTED,
Judge Martin decided the Harrison al
I yorce case this afternoon, Two year
IL ago George Il, Harrison, an architec,
III brought a suit for divorce against hi
y y5.S wife, Mary Nj. Harrison. Judge Martin
Sitting In chambers. to-day refused til
plaintiffs petition and signed deere
4 + granting Mrs. Harrison divorce upo
4 her cross bill. which alleged cruelty. iii
| plaintiff charged desertion. but the cour
49, aid that the acts OF the plaintiff toward
gH n o defendant Justified her descrtion Mrs
q VA frrisOn retains the custody of her tw
i hldren, who. with their mother, ar
~ at the home Of their grandfather 1
8ssSf orristown, N, ]. The decree OF tiyorc
~, AZ limited. and under It's provision
II neither party can remarry, but at III
MI end OF three years second decree, a
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