The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-31
A RAGING LION"
Constable Smith So I'm
pressed Store Keeper
Richardson.

Before Mayor Powell yesterday
came an officer of the law charged
with crime. He was Constable j. N
n. Smith, of ST. Marys, and. coming
to town to make an arrest, he had
been arrested. AS he sat quietly in
his chair waiting for the witnesses
to speak. he eyed the police with a
slightly puzzled air. 1t must have
been disturbing sensation.
Mr.. Smith had run amuck. That
is the story. Slightly drunk, said the
witness, was he but bloOd-thirsty. He
looked it. His hair was tawney yell
low streaked with gray and there was
a mattress of it in all-likewise his
beard was red and bristling and
waved like a flag of defiance from his
chin. His eyes We're the color of
cold. dull steel and the right one was
slightly cooked.
Saturday night Mr.. Smith went to
the store of r. w. Richardson. 32S
east Martin street. Said Mr.. Richard
son:
He came into my store and lurched
against the counter and wl>en he said
he didn't want to buy anything / ask
ed him to leave. He went as far as
the door and sat down on the step so
that he blocked the way. L asked
him to leave. He said he had a right
anywhere and wasn't going to move.
MIN out in the yard and then he pull
ed pistol and commenced to talk
about killing and l went back in the
store. No, L didn't turn him loose
because he had a pistol. but because
l mad to wait on my customers No,
l didn't hide: | just got behind the
counter. No, he didn't try to shoot
me, he just walked up and down
swinging his pistol around careless
like and talking about killing. He
looked like raging lion in a cage Ga
glance at the bunch of red hair on
Mr.. Smiths nose in connection with
his hirsute wealth did not weaken the
comparison). l sent u boy after an
officer"
Sam Bogasse. fJr.. stated that he
went after the policeman.
Said Clarence HILL He came up to
me\and said: Haven't 1 got a right
in that store?"
81 said. I don't know"
He poked a pistol in my nose and
said, Have l got right in that
store?'
81 said: Yes, sirv"
On this evidence Mayor Powell held
that Smith was not guilty of an as
Sault with u deadly weapon. He
changed the warrant to disord-
~ conduct, the constable sub
mitted and the Mayor fined him 1925.
Smith came to Raleigh to serve a
warrant issued by Squire Larry John
son. of Garner.
Il thought he was a detective or
something, said Richardson, looking
for me-
He was certainly Something" and
something is doing when Mr..
Smith is coming through the rye-or,
maVbe. corn.
Heels" Jones, colored, was charged
with disorderly conduct in cursing
and threatening to kill Burnie Jones.
He was considerably over-sworn by
witnesses, young and old. Heels
spoke for himself:
We wuz comm along de street by
Cid Smiths SNOWFALL saloon and dis
Burnie Jones he hits me in de eve
ana runs Off to his mudder'S / sits
down on de road and wipes de tears
outen me eye and den ] goes over to
dat boys mudder and asks her what
for and she didn't say nothing. I
never cussed no oath. All I done saw
Wuz CAT if | didn't kotcn dat Burnie
Jones, ] hope l might sink my NAM
ma corpse"
Albert johnson, a high headed ne
gro with scraggly tufts of hair pro-
trudlng from head and face, was fined
1913 for disorderly conduct-a reg
ular cussing match Saturday after
noon. Albert was weak and dsheart-
ened and still used UP by his jag
His landlord paid his fine and he de-
parted on wabbly legs.
Charley Wall, white. who was
charged with the larceny of money,
was discharged, the prosecutor falling
10 appear.
Logan Knuckly, who was caught
stealing ten pounds of beef from
Crawford's was sent on to court The
N nj ale,o
rant Saturday night another ten
pounds of beef and q pint of liquor
on ice, which belonged" to Knuckly.