The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-16
UDGESAM GAYLOR.
NABBED BY POLICE.
Famous Character Will Hardly
Put These Press Notices
in His Scrap Book.
CHARGED NOW WITH THEFT
Detectives Had to Handle Him
Roughly Before He Went
to Cell.

.Judge" Sam Gaylor. newsboy. poll
tician and dilettante. is in sad straits,
for yesterday he was arrested by De-
tectiye Sergeant Bailey on q charge of
waking UP too soon some nights ago
and carelessly walking off with $50
belonging to ]. D. Nunnally, farmer.
The Judge and his friend of an hour
spent the night together. at 1441 East
Main street. and Nunnally slept on
Gaylor SO it is alleged. carelessly in
quired II there were anything in the
trouser pockets, and the farmer said
he had the results of his days sales of
lambs In the pockets. When Nunnally
awoke In the morning Gaylor had
gone. Incidentally. the money also
was gone Yesterday the Judge re-
turned from a long trip. wearing a
light suit OF good pattern, brand new
patent leather shoes, purple socks, a
clean collar and shirt. brass watch
and fob, and scarf pin scintillating
with paste diamonds
Told of big Legacy.
The Judge looked gorgeous. proud
and happy. Life presented to him
roseate hues. and his candidacy for
the Common Council from Jefferson
Ward looked promising. Then he met
ILS uclSCllNeS, anu HIS dlT CdSlleS lell
with crash.
The Judge naively informed the Off
Ger that he had Just returned from the
obsequies OF his sister In New York.
who had remembered him in her will
to the extent of $4,000. He said she
lived at 514 Broadway. He forgot
that, and then said she had lived at
100 Broadway, Brooklyn. He told so
many stories in rapid succession that
he couldn't remember them all, and
was much fiabbergasted by the sharp
cross-questioning of Captain Mcmahon.
Then he wept softly, cursed a few. full,
round oaths, and told the assembled
detectives what he thought OF them.
and what not. ana couldn't have been
police officers unless they were
crooked. and then tore his new hat
and threw 1t at Captain Mcmahon. He
said he would put Captain Mcmahon,
Chief Werner and Serseants Bailey
and Wiltshire where the dogs couldn't
bite them, and that 1t would afford
him deal of pleasure to hang them.
Got Rather Violent.
He became SO violent that they had
to hold him by main force while he
was being searched. He had picked up
few choice epithets recently. and he
wept bitterly when they took the brass
ticker from him, saying that it had
been given him by his own dear sis
ter who had so recently passed away.
She lies buried, he said, in Greenbrier
Cemetery. New York City. He knew
it was Greenbrier Cemetery, because
he saw the hriers there, and they were
all green.
His new suit had cost him the fabu-
lous sum of $3.50. Tho shoes cost
$3.50. with the purple-colored socks
thrown in. He had roll of SIS on him.
The rest of the legacy, he said, was
stored away in bank in New York.
But the detectives believe that Sam
got no further than Norfolk, where
he purchased his outfit in a pawnshop,
and dreamed the legacy.
His Honor was locked up as a sus-
picious character. He tried to run,
and laughed. as If 1T were a joke.
when the officer caught him.
Never mnd,' he said in parting.
'I'll get you yet, even If have to go
to the electric chair for It."