The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-26
NEWS GATHERED
FR0N| s0UT Inside
Bad Negro Will Have to racs
Very Many
Charges.
AGAINST SUNDAY PAPERS
Rev. ]. ]. Fix Says They Detract
from Reading OF PBible-Pcr-
sonals and Briefs.
Manchester Bureau. 1lmes.plspatch. !

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No. Il02 Hull Street. :
George Hicks. negro With reputation
for neanness that is unsurpassed by any
Mayor II. a. Maurice this morning and
attempt to explain why he got drunk:
why he became d!sorderly. why he re-
sisted Officer Moore. and why he tried
TO get away from Sergeant a. s. Wright.
There may be few other minor why's"
propounded to the Hicks. but these are
sufficient, 1t is believed. to ensure his
Incarceration in the city jail for several
days.
Late Saturday night Hicks. who was re-
Gently released from jail, filled himself
with rum and went on the wnrpath. Off
Ger Moore caught him on upper Hull
Street. and was about to place him
aboard car at Fifteenth Street when he
broke away The patrolman chased him
into a field adjoining coward!n Avenue
and there recaptured him. The negro
offered resistance, and the officer slipped
and lost his hold. The negro got away
for the time being.
Shortly afterwards he was spied in Tan
Yard Bottom by Sergeant A. S. Wright.
who took him in charge. The negro re-
sisted all the time. and X was necessary
to put the nippers on him. a, The corner
of Tenth and Hull Streets the prisoner
attempted to again break away, and wifi.
a terrible lunge he brought the game Ser
geant close TO him and started around
the corner. One good stiff blow from
tho officers club brought him to his
senses, and another whack across the
knuckles put his resistance out OF COM
mission.
The negro was landed in the lookup
and spent yesterday in Jail. He spent
| about eight months of last year in the
booked to do the most of 1906 In the same
place.
Against Sunday Papers.
In an earnest talk to the membera
OF the Westminster League of the Pres
byterian Church last night Rev j. J.
Fix. pastor of the church In Manchester,
declared that Sunday newspapers were
a great temptation to the people to
read and had the effect of distracting
their attention from the Bible which
| should be read on tho Sabbath.
| His talk to the League was along the
| lines OF constant and secret prayer and
the reading of Gods Word. The pres
encc of the SundayEpaper, he declared.
VERY often led one away from the Holy
| Writ and made him forget the duties
! he owed to himself and to his Maker.
| Rev. Mr.. Fix did not deal Mt length
| on the subject, simply referring to 1t
| In his remarks to the members OF the
League which has recently been started.
Paper Carrier Arrested.
Harvey a. Clark former carrier for
the Times Dispatch in Manchester, will
| appear in police court this morning to
| answer the charge Of embezzling 81 from
| his employers. He Is alleged to have
received money from the paper to pay
boy carriers who assisted him with the
route in Manchester and to have kept
| the money himself. Mr.. Clark was en-
poyed by the Times-Dispatch for some
| thing over a month. He is no longer
with the paper.
There will be several cases Of dis
| orderly conduct to be heard by Mayor
Maurice this morning. Saturday night
! was very fruitful and the officers sent
/ several OF the inebriates to the lookup.
Personals and Briefs.
The committee in charge of the plans
| for the sociable to be given by West
| minister League In the Presbyterian
Church on Friday night has prepared an
excellent programme. and every member
whose name is now on$the roll is Invited
to be, present. 49,
Mr.. Claude Hooker, a well known young
| man of the city, who has played base
ball In and around Richmond for several
years, will very likeyAplay In the Caro-
lilina League next year. { st
| The Olympia Club will hold its monthly
meeting In Its hall. No. l West Fifteenth
Street, Tomorrow night. All members
are urged to he present. 1T d
Colonel William Allen, superintendent
OF the cemetery. ia indlsposed with
severe cold.
There IRE several committee meetings
scheduled for this week In the Council
i.chamber.
Woman You Ought to Marry"
The Rev. George p. Booker OF Char
lottesville. will lecture at Lnurel-stgeet
Methodist Church Tomorrow night, his
subject being THE IIindso a Woman
| You Ought to Marry" Mr.. Booker Ia
ranked among the foremost orators of
! the Virginia Conference and has gained
quite reputation as n lecturer and en-
| ,tertaner From the interest now mani
| tested large audience will doubtless
greet Mr.. Booker
Returns from Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Osborne Nc
| Cabe, who have spent the past FIVE weeks
IN Nlordin and New York, returned Ito