The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-19
SAY, WHERE ARE We
Have We Butted Into an
Eastside Nightmare?
Looks as it this Busy Burgs Seamy
Section Had Gone On a lag and
Begun Throwing Red
Spasms.

last Legislature changed the fall
term of Superior court of Guilford
for the trial Of criminal cases to Sep
TENDER DIST From present appear
ances, before that time arrives the jail
will have to be enlarged or new quar-
ters will have to be rented in some
other county. There are now thirty
prisoners in Jail awaiting the coming
OF court. and new ones are being
placed there every day. OF the cases
sent up to the clerk of the Superior
court, and those left over from last
court, now docketed there are 126, ana
of these nearly half are for violation
of the Greensboro prohibition law.
Besides the usual arrests and cap
lures on Sunday of blind tiger aiders
or abettors, reported in this cores,
pondence yesterday, the following
transactions occurring Sunday or yes
terday in the criminal and misde
meanor realm have either been or are
to be aired in the mayors court.
A Criminal Bouquet.
Near Five Points last night. Anna
Hollis, colored. was hit on the back
of the head with a heavy and a sharp
rock by a negro man who was fuss
ing with her" The wound is consid-
cred very serious, physicians fearing
ant has not been captured. Sunday
night a thief broke through a win
dow in the basement of G. 5. Watson
and stole all his garnered groceries
kept there for family use. The thief
has not been found, being among that
large class who also ran" Nor day
night Robt. Long and Bill Watson,
colored, had dispute in a restaurant
on East Market street and the music
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and drum was discorded by cries of
help, murder" a few rods away. Ii
was Watson, running and bleeding. He
had been SWiped across the nose ana
eyes with razor, which he said Long
used on him in the dark just after he
had come out the do" He said Long
cut for his throat" but he ducked
his head and got it across the eyes
and nose. AS Watson ran one way
and Long another. only the latter fell
nito the officers clutch, but they are
ipdustriously looking for the escaped
man. The mans wound looked
CHASTITY, but the physician who sewed
him up says he is not much hurt.
An ebon-hued soiled dove. who has
been under police surveillance fol
some time, was arrested last night and
locked up on a charge of keeping a
bawdy house. For some time officers
have been devoting much attention
towards getting strong enough evil
dence on which to convict the said
Mabel Stevens, and they say they now
have n clear case against her. if there
can anything except mud connected
with such cases
Sunday night j. f. May while
strolling or staggering about the side
walks of a colored suburb, Warmers
Vile, was set upon and badly beaten
by a crowd of negroes. He claims
that after beating him, he was taken
to nearby woods and left to die.
He said there were about twenty me-
groes in the crowd, and they accused
him of pushing a colored lady off
the sidewalk" w. G.. Edwards, said
| to have been one of the assailants, was
| located and arrested last night, and
gave bond for his appearance at the
mayors court.
A Symphony of Squalls
| On Sycamore street near the Ben
| bow and Guilford hotels about ten
| O'Clock last night, guests cooling off in
| chairs on the curbing in front of the
| hotels, were attracted by loud cries
| and squalls and oaths and ripping anu
| whirring near stones bindery. This
| row was between two colored wo-
men, Nora Battle and Ollie Saunders
| Both were intoxicated and very mad
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fight only it sounded like twenty in
stead of two were in the miX-up. One
| of the girls was pretty badly bunged
| up with a cut on her head, and the
! other had no eyes visible, when the
| policeman marched them to the Gala
boose under the hotel and drug stores
lime lights of South Elm street.
The fish hook and line pants thief
| has not been here in two years, but
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| stick between the iron bars of rear
| window of Sellers and WitherSpoon's
| grocery store and stole all the hams
| he could draw to him and squeeze
| through the aperture. Two big hams
| which wouldn't work through We're
| left, disclosing the method of theft.
Welcome With Lead.
Hearing some one at her window
| last night, Mrs. Nancy Pratt, who was
sitting up alone with her sick huS-
band, got her pistol and went to look.
| She saw a negro man, working at this
window, trying to prize it up. She
| fred and the man ran, while she sent
another bullet after him. Mrs. Pratt
saws she recognized the man as ona
who assisted in moving her household
goods from the station sometime ago,
and who then asked her if she was not
afraid to stay there by herself and
only her sick husband. Policemen
are searching for the man.
This morning Deputy Sheriff Crutch-
field arrested jim Reed colored, un-
der q warrant sworn out by Martha
Clapp, charging that he committed a
criminal assault at the point OF a
nistol upon her Seventeen-year-o
G.uehter. Daisey, Sunday afternoon
on the banks of South Buffalo creek.
Items That Are Less Lurid.
Mr.. r. A. Lyon. prominent prop
erty holder and shoe commercial evan
gelist was arrested yesterday on
charge of violating a city ordinance
requiring the payment of sewer rem
tai. The hearing of the case is sci
for Thursday Mr.. Lyon refuses to
pay the rent claiming it to be a dou>
BILE tax. inhibited by the constitution,
and will test it in the Supreme court
Mr.. George Hodgin, who. While un-
counlino some cars near the DaVie
street crossing Saturday was caught
between them and mashed, was not
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