Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-24
EIGHTY Peace-DisturberS Like.
Iy to Keep Quiet.
SOME OF EN- PUT AWAY
Others Forfeited So Each for Making
a Little Noise.
STREET L0ITERERS ARRESTED
No Whisper Will BE Breathed o
Saturday Nights, as the Police
Will Do It Again.

AS result of wholesale arrests made by
the police between & o'clock Saturday
night and o'clock Sunday morning OF
loiterers and disorderly characters along
NJ street. Georgetown, justice was fully
occupied in the District branch of the
Police Court, presided over by Judge
Mullowny, this morning. Batches of
twenty-five and thirty prisoners were put
in the court pen at a time, and filled
again as the cases were disposed Of. The
pen was filled and emptied In this man
ner four times.
The session of the court was so ex-
tended that recess was taken. At a
late hour this afternoon the court was
still doing business. disposing of an al
most record-breaking number Of drunk
and disOrderly conduct cases.
With eighty-two cases from the seventh
precinct. where the greatest number of
arrests were made, added to offenders
brought before the court from the other
nine precincts Of the city, 1873 cases were
disposed Of.
Complaints Are Many.
Numerous and repeated complaints to
the authorities from merchants and other
business men along NJ street told of street
loafers and boisterous men and women of
both colors, disturbers OF the peace of
the entire early part Of the night, and not
only disagreeable to pedestrians, but in
terfering with business.
Repeated warnings to street corner as
semblies and loiterers along the pave
ments on Saturday nights in the past
several weeks seemed to have little or no
effect. Accordingly orders were issued
to the patrolmen of the precinct to
break up the trouble by placing under
arrest every one caught lettering or act
ing with disorder.
women on NJ street alone had been ar
rested. The balance of the crop OF mis-
demeanants We're gathered in between
that hour and o'clock in the morning.
1t was determined beforehand to re-
quire 81 collateral Of such prisoners who
Of the cases this amount was put up. Not
more than eighteen defendants appeared
before the court for trial.
In these cases, with but one exception.
days in the workhouse in default. There
was no money forthcoming.
One Woman Vagrant.
In the excepted case in which the charge
was vagrancy, the defendant, a woman.
was committed to the workhouse for
ninety days in default Of $50 fine. Martha
Barnes was this offender.
Prisoners committed in default Of the
SO fine were William Bunday. Henry
Snowden. Walter Register. Andrew Clay,
ter, Elias Green. Jennie Mason, Bertha
Riley. Alex Smith. Joseph Murray and
Rachel Henderson. Several other cases
are to come before the court this after
noon.
According to the court records the fol-
ma n those
to appear and who forfeited So collateral:
Fred Brown and Albert Jordan, Fort
Myer. Va: John Woner. 1919 35th street:
John Carney: l71e 3sd street: Joseph
Dranesville. Va: Henry Protein, Great
F'rammell. Great Falls; Charles
Reed. Great Falls; William Pyles.
ST.: William PyIes. jr. and Frank
smae of sta% snts0mfeg fo~nty dSa
Hinkle. "7OS Prospect avenue: Rachel
Webster. Halls Hill. Va; Daniel Gray,
1927 9th street: Ella Neal. el6 New
Hampshire avenue northwest: John
370s Prospect avenue: John Carter. Glen
Echo: Lawrence Gray. Glen Echo: Irene
Briscoe. 32l3 Cherry hill: Jonas Melcker.
= Keady's court: James Stewart. Airing
ton. Va: William Hughes. 1920 s6th
Lena Moore, 271s Poplar street: Frank
CLANCY. Rockville Md; James Jack
SON. Rockville. Md; Arthur Virgins.
1923 K street: Jennie Douglass, 1923 X
street; Lily Straightener. 1853 Potomac
James Brent. Rosslyn, Va: William Yes
sells. Bethesda, Md: Lizzie Lane, 1O17
sd street; John Neal, Tenleytown; Mary
jackson. 1922 33d street: Sarah Johnson,
1868 3oth street: Henry Magruder. Dean
wood: George Coates. 1921 18th street:
Johnson. 1903 9th street: Rosetta Of
futt. 1917 SD street: James Mickey, X
street and Wisconsin avenue: Henry p
Brown. Falls Church. Va: Theron Bell.
Falls Church. Va; Al Honesty. Halls Hill.
Va: Albert Lee. Halls Hill. Va: Arm
stead Gravett. Falls Church, Va: Whit
ney Lawson. Falls Church, Va; Eliza
Bowman. 2414. 4th street: Eliza Johnson
2414 II street; Joseph Robinson. 1870 seth
street; Joseph Ware. 1915 Bells court;
liam Herring, Seaton street: Oliver James,
1888 Potomac street: John Moore. 80 K
street: George Thompson. no address;
Robert Burgess Cissell's alley; Jane Gill
more. Lewis Henderson. Mary Mayhem,
Joseph Briggs. Lester Donnelley, James
Mack. Henry Davis Joseph Murdoch and
Bessie Mayors.
Most Of Them Negroes.
The police state that about four-fifths
of the prisoners arrested were colored.
The white men under arrest were from
the neighboring country. including sew
eral soldiers from Fort Myer.
Wholesale arrests will follow right
along. and especially Saturday nights.
until the congregating Of bOisterous
crowds and the blockading OF the side
walks cease.
The principal reason, the police say,
for so much lettering on NJ street Is that
1t has gradually become the rendezvous
for a great number of colored women.
who meet their male associates there
and then spend the late hours of the