Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-06
must PAY BIG fine.
SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR 2. q.
/. se,ALIrsrEn, NORFOLK GAMBLER.
ANOTHER NEGRO BRINGS SUIT
a.v. j. ". Briekhou.e want. Dams.
age. for Being Di.frsnchi.sd-
william Taylor Coo. to Prison for
life.

NORFOLK, VA, January 5.5Speclai3
Five hundred dollars and costs was the
sentence imposed by Police Justice Taylor
to-day In the case OF 4. c., McAllister.
charged with selling liquor without a IL
cense and running poker rooms over his
news stand on Queen street. McAllister
appealed and a jury In the Corporation
Court Will now pass upon the case. Nc
AIlister admitted having a poker room.
which seems to be no violation OF the law
Dropdded not more than so IS won or lost
Ct any one time. but the defendant
denied that he sold liquor to his pat
Tons.
It developed that McAllister, in serv-
ing intoxicating refreshments to poker
patrons. had accepted poker chips in pay
ment for the same. and the court regard
ed this as equivalent to selling liquor
without license
ANOTHER NEGRO SUES.
Tho five hundred colored voters in Nor
folk, entitled to the franchise under the
new Constitution, have been organized by
William Thoroughbred to protect their
Interests. It Is believed that the orgsni-
cation will be assisted by the National
Republican COMMITTEES to wage war on
the new Virginia Constitution. Rev. J.
w. Brickhouse. pastor OF st. Luke's AZ
rican Methodist Episcopal church, to-day
entered suit through James Hayes, the
colored Richmond attorney. against eiec-
ton judges Gallup. Brooks, and Jessnp,
Of Norfolk county. for s., 900 damages The
plaintiff claims that he was Illegally de-
Jr1ved OF the right Of suffrage in Nor
folk county by the operation OF laws
made under the new Constitution, all of
which. he claims, are Illegal. He also
alleges that he Is one Of the eighty~one
negroes whose names were stricken from
the registration books by Norfolk county
tudges.
GOES TO PRISON FOR LIFE
William Taylor has been to the peni-
Tertiary twice for repeated offences of
petit larceny He was again convicted Of
.: third offence last night. and under the
new law, there Is no other penalty for
him than Imprisonment for life
Early Sunday morning. in Berkeley. Hen
1ey's grocery store was robbed by three
negroes. The proprietor was bound and
gagged and the till stolen. The thieves
threatened to kill Henley. but instead,
suddenly turned out the lights and ran.
Branch and his bloodhounds from suf-
folk have been trying to find trail all
day. but thus far have not succeeded
Henley was unin5ured.
Park-Avenue Baptist church has sent
its greetings to tho President, the Gov
ernor, and the members OF the Legisla-
ture, as well as to the Mayor. The mes
sages to Roosevelt and Montague were
congratulatory. but the one to the Leg
islature urges the members to legislate
Cor the entire people, to foster education,
and to protect the people from great cor
poratons.
Sam Wasserman. Jesse Weinfield, VIII
were given six months In jail each. and
required to furnish $1,000 for twelve
months. upon the charge Of stealing two
barrels of fish from Richard Jones, who
alleges to have had his keys stolen while
'iooped." They appealed, but all went to
Jail y-in> DEFAULT Of bond, except Wasser-
man.
MRS. HARDWOOD ALLEGES DESER-
TON.
Claiming that she had been compelled
TO make her way back home, penni-
less and alone after one month of welded
life, Mrs. Mary Wallace Wall HARDWOOD
has entered suit in the Court OF Law and
f.hanccry for an absolute divorce from
her husband, George Washington Har-
wood. who. she says, is now a. resident
of Norfolk. Tho bill in the case sets out
that the couple were married in Raleigh,
N. c., November 7. 1901.
They went from there TO Jacksonville.
Fla. where the splaintiff says she was
deserted 4 month later. She says that she
IS now earning her own living In Nor.
DIX as a. stenographer. and asks that
The court, in granting her prayer for a
divorce. allow her to resume her maiden
name. Jennie Deik. of Newport News. is
named as correspondent.
The announcement that Hugh Gordon
Miller has been offered the position as
collector at Norfolk has created much
,rneasiness, here among the Bowden Re
publ!cans. Major r. G. Banks, the en-
.chn,bcnt, accompanied by r. T. Thorpe
and Republican State Committeeman
,,a,neson. of MecklenDurg county, left for
Washington last night, and a big bunch
Of Republicans. with George e. Bowden
at their head, will leave tonight.
THEY WEI COME CASSELI