The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-26
Will Receive All That is Coming
to Him.
Very Much Doing in the Local
City Police Court To-
day.
INTERESTING EVIDENCE HEARD

~ ~ eNluent from Juukc Cuuutfs
preliminary remarks this morning that
Grant Howard. colored, will get all
that is coming to him on the charge
Of inhuman treatment to his 10 year
old child. The evidence was partly
beard yesterday and in some instan ces
was very amusing.
Howard himself did not deny the
allegations. He claimed, however,
that hanging children mp and smoking
them In that manner was Q common
custom among the colored people. es-
pecially in North and South Carolina,
and that he meant only TO punish the
child. The immediate cause Of the
corrections. he declared, was the fact
that the diminutive darkey who looks
something like q small ape, tied n dog
TO q cows tail. At last accounts Meth
or the dog nor the COW had been
found.
The child. when first placed In the
sack and hung mp in the barn. Kicked
out. and bis father then decided he
would have TO tie his hands and feet.
and did so. He went back TO take
him down and found him gone. lie
swors that there was nothing but
corn cobs and . piece Of pine in IN old
pot as = fire.
The boy said the fire did not burn
him, but that the smoke hurt his eyes
aud nose.
Milton Brooks, n well known local
colorcd man. testified that smoking
children was not IN uncommon prAc-
tice as q punishment among colored
people. lie said he had been smoked
when young. at one time being secured
In the FIRE place while the operation
was being performed. Il is under
stood others in the city may 90 up
Monday and make oath to the same
thing.
Howard however. is likely to have
. severe penalty imposed. Judge
Sanders said this morning that no
matter IL IL was custom among the
negroes years ago to smoke children
that 1t was barbarious and inhnman,
and that such punishment now was
on. of keeping with modern times.
The court said that all boys were
more or less bad. but that they didn't
deserve to be treated brutslly. He
said as to Brooks. that he may have
been smoked as he said, but that he
didn't look very much like ham or o
hog jowl yet. although the chances
are that the Howard boy would, had
he remained in the barn . little long.
er.
He said there was some other evil
dencc he desired to hear. and would
render his decision on Monday morn
ing.
Zach Crummel, q Trigg county me-
gro who was arrested in the railroad
yards with . pistol concealed on his
person. was fined $50 and costs anc
given 10 days in Jail.
Lizzie Ayers, colored, was fined
eb and costs for throwing stones at
Jesse Stovall, colcred. She claimed
the latter asked another girl why she
spoke to dat niggah." and alluded
to her as a "louse box"
Snake Wade was fined $50 and costs
for attempting to.cut Arthur salnick,
bartender at the Marcoffsti saloon
two weeks ago. The bartender claim
ed that "Snake" came in and refused
TO pay for three glasses Of beer he
bought, and when an argument arose
chased him until he got upstairs and
got his pistol from under the head of
his bed.
The case against Frank Arbuokle,
the white man charged with stealing
two umbrellas and a brass cannon
from Former officer Buck White
bursts was left open. He claimed he
was given tho cannon for mendinR
umbrellaa. This was denied,