The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
Personal and General.

Steve Johnson is very much colored, and what is more, is very much hardened to the ways of the world, but Capt H. D. Partridge of the police force, will vouch for the fact that he has no feathers on his legs, and also states that according to his way of thinking, that negro is one of them things
 Steve is known to every officer of the city, and it appears that he has always taken a special delight In making this city the scene of his crimes.
 Several months ago, while he was serv- ing out an eighty-five day sentence, to- gether with several other black Forget me-nots," he attempted to join the bird gang by grabbing an old broken down horse that was the property of William II. II. Judson and it is believed that had the horse not been so slow, the negroes would have made good their escape.
 They were working one of the streets anu while the guard was dreaming of the little girl he had left way down on the farm in Shelby county" the black things looped the loop, and became friends with the horse and wagon that was standing near. However Steve proved to be bad driver He attempted to duplicate some of the stunts pulled off by Joe Glasner, the driver of the patrol wagon, that is. he wanted to see if he could not go down the road on two wheels. The wheels needed oiling, and for that reason it took four to do the work of two. The trio finally wound up-at the Smith mines where Capt. John Hanby threw an old Gatnng gun on them, and asked them to remian over to luncheon, which they con scented to do.
 They were brought to the city and turn ed over to the grand jury and Johnson was liberated. He was not satisfied with getting that much of a run for his money but thought he had something else com ing to him. He strode into Roger Me- CaDes colored saloon a few nights after ward and after a pal of his had trimmed him in pool game, he made the remark that he--wanted to spread a little joy, and if he could finds no one to spread it with, he would make friends with the DO table.
 He proceeded to carve his monogram on the legs Not satisfied with this, he then went to work and carved the following words on the table itself Every race mas a flag but the coon" This proved as the coy little girl would say, "too much," and Mir McCabe stated in court next morning that while he had been up against a good many propositions in his wild and checkered career. that was tho first time he had ever seen a pool table taken for a butcher shop, and he felt that it was up to him to rebel. He did rebel in such good style that ex-Mayor Sullivan gave Steven $S7 50 and costs, and the docket read: For trying to make mnce met out of thing of cushion and legs
 When his Irish honor, MT. Sullivan. was declared non est by the present Mayor and Board of Aldermen, or at least just an hour before he was declared a dead one, he had a mighty streak of heart fail ure, and remarked that he believed/that his conscience hurt him regarding the amount of fines he had imposed upon Steven. Among the eleven prisoners that he liberated that evening was included the name of one Steven Johnson.
 All went well until last evening, when Steven evidently tiring of the monotony of every day hum-drum, decided that ne would get in Abe Rueff's class on a small scale.
 He walked up to the Alabama Great Southern depot, and after watching while and satisfying himself that the op- orator was busy, he proceeded to enter the white waiting room by means of window and his plan to grab a grip would no doubt have worked well had he not made a noise that aroused the sus- picions of the clerk. He had in the mean time slipped out the door and was In the act of cutting open large grip when the clerk ran slap up into him. That's the time he got in Dan Patch's class. and he beat it to Twenty-first street in less than 2:05b.
 Night Captain Partridge was phoned Nor. and he got there as fast as Is recent pair of Walkovers would carry him. We refrain from stating just how fast that was, because when it is known that the captain procured his first job on the force because he demonstrated that he could run a mile i- any old time, everything will be made right.
 He took along with him one Officer Bishop, and 1t is a we'll known fact that after MT. Bishop gets started there is no stopping for him. He ran until he land ed up in a box car. and then Kennedys