The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-10
RECORDERS COURT
HEAVY DOCKET AND FINES AGGRE-
 GATED A BIG SUM.
Many Crap Shooters Were Arraigned And Got The Usual Sentence. Two Violations Of open
 Store Ordinance.

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 | Mobile, Sept. s.-(Special. )-The docket in the recorders court this
 morning was not only unusually
 heavy, but an unusual number of
 heavy fines were imposed for violations l of different city ordinances. There
 were twenty-five convictions and the
 aggregate amount of the fines im-
 posed was $2125O.
 | There were two cases of open store
 on Sunday. In each instance, the de- | fendants were accused of selling whis- i key. Paul Martin. a young man who
 acts as bar tender for Oliver Pistole, l an ex-policeman, who operates a bar at the corner of Elmira and St. Eman- uel streets, was the defendant in the first case.
 Officers Murphy and Lacey who ar
 rested Martin, stated that they had found the defendant selling intoxicants
 in 6 private residence just across the
 street from Pistoles place of business.
 From the amount of goods in the house,
 it appeared that Martin had simply
 transferred Pistole's stock across the
 street for the day and continued do-
 ing business as on any other day in
 the week. Both Martin and Pistole
 were arrested, but the latter was not
 placed on the docket He paid Mar
 tins fine, however. Martin pleaded
 guilty. There were almost a dozen men
 drinking in the place at the time the
 officers entered and all these were arr
 rested on the long charge, but the
 cases against them were dismissed. The
 fine against Martin was $25.
 T. Chipalich, who operates a saloon
 on the corner of Ann and Congress streets was the defendant in the other case of open store. The arresting of ficers stated that they had found Chipa- lich doing a land office business at 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning. The defen- dant admitted that he was selling liq- uor when the officers entered his place, but claimed that it was not after 12 o'clock He was fined $25 or fifty days and gave notice of an appeal, but later decided to pay the fine.
 Joe Malone, a negro, charged with burglarizing the dressing room of the actresses at the Mobile Theatre Satur- day night was fined $25 pr fifty days on this charge.
 The negro was arrested by Bernie Murphy, a son of Special Officer Mur- phy who is employed at the theatre. Young Murphy stated that he had sev- eral complaints from the actresses at the theatre Saturday night to the ef- feet that their dressing rooms had been entered and different articles stolen.
 Shortly afterwards. young Murphy and a companion saw the negro leav- ing one of the ladies' dressing room by a rear window, and immediately took him in charge. The negro stoutly de- nied his guilt, but as there was found on his person several articles belong ing to members of the "Rollickng Girl" Company, the evidence against the negro was conclusive.
 Wilson Phillips, another negro, was another who was fined $25 of fifty days. Phillips. according to the evI- dence, answered the description C. a negro who was seen coming out of thu house of William Barkman, at the corner of Texas and Conception streets, Saturday night. Shortly aft CT the negro was seen to leave the Barkman home. Phillips was found acting rather suspiciously in the vic inity of the house and was arrested by officers Dean and Galle. He deni- ed his guilt, claiming that he was not even in that section of the city Satur- day night.
 Thomas Simpson and Walter Jones, | two other negroes, were among those | to feel the heavy hand of the law. In | each of these cases, the complainant | was the defendants wife. The evil dence in each case showed that the defendant had taken 1t upon himself to beat his wife unmercifully. Neither of the defendants denied this fact. but both claimed that they were jus tihabIe. In this, Judge Hale differed with them and imposed the regula- ton wife beating fine of $l5 or thirty days
 That officers Botz and Burch spent a busy night Saturday night was proven this morning when nine "crap shooters" the participants in two diff ferent games, were fined 8 or ten days each. The officers raided a negro lodging house near the river front Saturday night and found a gambling game in full progress. All of the five negroes in the room admitted that they were guilty. Soon after this raid a telephone message was received at the station saying that another game had been discovered. this one in liv- cry stable, and the officers again up a bunch of dusky spirits. bent on beating each other out of their hard earned cash. Again the pleaded guilty and were given the minimum fine of $5 or ten days
 John williams. a negro who claims to live in Montgomery, was given Q sentence of 29 lays at hard labor on the charge of stealing a suit case be- longing to another negro. Both na- groes were at the Louisville and Nash vilIe depot saturday night waiting for the train to Montgomery. The com plainant in the case, who owned the grip left his suit case in Williams charge while he went across the street to get a drink, and when he came back Williams was gone The owner of the grip found Williams on the street yesterday, with the grip in his posses sion, and promptly had him arresaed. Williams could not explain why he had walked off with some one else's property.