The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-29
COLLECTED $l7S.5O
RECORDERS COURT HAD GOOD
 DAYS BUSINESS.
Thirty-fve Cases Were Set for Triai Yesterday-Ten Negroes were
 Fined for Gaming.

The Police Department is making a
 lot of money now by catching the vio- lators of the city law and bringing
 them to the bar of justice in the Re- corder's Court, assessing fines on those found guilty and filling the coners or the Police Department with many gilt terins shekels derived from paid fines. | Yesterday from this source sl's.oo | was received by Day Sergeant Harrlson and turned over to the City treasurer as his daily revenue from the Pollce Department Then those who are found guilty and will not or cannot pay their fines work for the city in inn proving the streets at a rate of 50 cents a day until the amount of their nncs Is compensated in this way.
 Ten negroes arrested Saturday nlsht by. Bicycle Patrolmen Evans and Me- Dade in a rear room of ]. Lippman saloon on Ripley Street, were fined $l0 and costs each and six of the men paid their fines, s13 each, or SIS in all. The other four men will work for the city twenty-six days and are expected to do something more strenuous than play skin game" Lippman, the proprle- tor of the place in which the gamesters were arrested. was also lined S2o and costs for running a gaming table. He paid the fine and was released.
 Israel Belser d negro arrested Sat urday on South Court Street by Patrol man Oliver for disorderly conduct, and who resisted arrest was fined s In each case. Thirty-two days on the streets is the way he will pay his fines.
 Oscar Wellington. d negro arrested for the theft of plank from the prem ises of the International Oil Company on Bell Street. was discharged and the case dismissed.
 Mike Gilbert, a negro arrested Sun day morning for practicing fraud. and on whose person was found con- ccaled pistol when he was searched, was fined $50 and costs in the conceal ed pistol case and discharged in the case of practicing fraud. It will be about the 18th of March before he has worked sufficiently on the streets to pay the fine imposed for the pleasure of carrying a pistol in his pocket.
 A number of cases of the thirty five set for trial were for minor offenses, such as trunks and disorderly conduct but they helped materially to swell the total amount of revenue received on the days work
 Sergeant Harrison said that already over $1,2O0 had been turned over to the City Treasurer this month from the De- partment and that the outlook was bright for more.
 The case against Willie Hill, alias Blackman, charged with grand larceny, which was set for trial, was continued. It Is alleged that Hill entered the home of Capt. J. W. Powell, 34 Wilson Street. Saturday afternoon and helped himself to lot of clothing. He disap- peared with the goods without telling anyone he had them or offering to pay for them. He will explain his reasons for such action before the Recorder this afternoon.
 This departmcI, is helping the city so much financially and otherwise that they are engaged in materially improv- ing their police headquarters. Work men have finished painting all the woodwork interior of the city prison and wall paperers are now almost done with the job of putting pretty cov- ering of paper on the walls of the Ser geant's office. The improvement Is seen at a glance as the wall papering that is now being covered by the new paper has been sticking to those sturdy walls for about fifteen years and had about served it's time.