The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-01
W|GCS' VICIOUS JAG
Station House Cell a
Wreck Where He
Got Through.

John Wiggs, blacksmith for the
city at the city farm near Raleigh,
was yesterday fined SO and costs and
taxed with the payment Of 500 dam
age which he had wrought N the sta
ton house during his confinement
there Tuesday. Also. Mr.. VICES was
relieved of his connection with the
city government.
Wigs jag is said to have been
planted Monday and by Tuesday at
ternoon il was luxurious specimen.
Wigs paraded il on Wilmington
street to the great edifcation OF all
the people. to whom, personally, he
spoke with the frank utterance OF one
full of descriptive power and prodl-
gal of adjectiyes. The damnation OF
Mr. Wigs included the poDulace, it is
said. and. when it was directed now
and again upon an individual, it glow
ed like an old time sermon OF the
wrath TO come.
When the police arrived Mr.. Wigs
adopted that last dodge of the very
drunk. the policy of entire passlvlty.
He LAY down." literally and in fact.
Two policemen tried to raise his limp
and recumbent form but the dead
weight was too much for their
strength 1t was not until two other
policemen arrived that the segregation
of Mr. Wigs became practicable.
With two of the big ''cOpDerS' at his
head and two at his heels. the pro-
cession however, was enabled to pro-
coed AS it came down Exchange
street like q red-cross detail from
scene of battle and sudden death. it
was realism done to a turn.
wow Wow! Vow" yelled Wigs
as he spied the station house door.
ooh! Oh! oh! On! HI!
-. Haven't been in the guard house
for forty years. Cough! Eough..
Fought! Turn me loose! You
blank, BANKED, bankety Blanks.
Aw,''-the last in a long drawn wall
as the big policemen stumbled heavily
down the steep stairs of the station
house.
Later when I went into the prison
to look at the junk shop captured
along with Duncan Matthews. the
stiffness was shaken into quiVering
sound by a sudden smash of splinter
ing wood. Everybody jumped 1t
was like the rending sound of a
striking shell.
"BIang, Blangl BLANC, Jing-a-ling,
smash!" and then. again the voice of
Wigs from the darkness.
Wow! Wow! Wow! -. --!
."
The racket was something fearful
through the iron grating in the pave
ment. Against the light one could
catch the glitter of their curious eyes.
A policeman opened the iron door
between the cells and the office and
stepped UP to the slit in Wigs cud
dy to demonstrate.
John! john be quiet" said the
policeman soothingly.
In the cell it was black as night
No Wigs was apparent. strain ones
eyes as one might. Only the voice
that came from the darkness:
Bring YOUR pistol d-n your
blankety BANKED hide! Shoot me
kill me. kill me! / want 20 be killed.
Ow. WOW, WOW! And again the rend-
ing smash Of the bunch on the leaden
fixtures Of the sink within the cell
Finally Wigs was overpoWered
and handcuffed, but the cell was
wrecked Yesterday he was quiet and
presumably repentant. But the dam
age had been done and he bad to pay,
as we'll as lose his job.
Wigs is the man who some weeks
ago was charged with jumping from
one of the city wagons and striking
small boy who was playing in the
road. The city authorities were in
vestigating the matter and the mayor
had sent for Wigs to come in from
the farm. Wigs came, but at once
procured a warrant 10 DC SWoiH oul
against himself before a magistrate.
was tried for assault and acquitted on
the ground that the blow was stricken
bv the driver Of tho wagon. who had
fled, although several witnesses posi-
the country and from many OF the TO
lively identified him as the man who
used the whip.
The memory OF that escapadc and
the development of Tuesday VIII not
cause the public which he was sup
posed to serve to undulY regret the
passing Of M. Wigs.
OtheI Cases Heard.
Dick Blackwell and Jessie Taylor
were charged with diSOrderly conduct
in cursin" and throwing rocks on
tho streets. Blacknall was dismissed
and TaVlOr fined $6.25.
Ada Williams. who was drunk on
the streets, was sent to the roads for
twenty days.
Veterans Again Honor