The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
HOLIDAY DRINKS
AvIATE TO BENCH.
Who's Who in Jagdom Tells OF
Some Wonderful Christ
mas Flights.
THROWN BY BAD GASOLINE
But Out OF III Prisoners Liber-
ated Sunday Only One
Staggered Back Again.

Staggered Back Again.
Flying in a middling breeze, sixty
three occupiers of the allotted space
prescribed for the poor mortals who
must sojourn on the planet named
Earth, arrived before the man who
doles out justice in the Police Court
of tho city of Richmond. They had
flown high, but for the most part had
suffered from an excess of fuel, failing
to find the proper exhaust except
when piloted by one of the minions
who conducts a haven for wayfaring
aviators.
All of which is to say that sixty
three highlers, most of whom had
slept fast in the embrace of Mr..
Bacchus found their way albeit. I'M
willingly. to the Police Court yester-
day. 1t was the aftermath of holiday
festivities A student of things human
might have found a repast to his lik
ing A philosopher might have written
brilliant tones upon the frailties of
humanity. while student of econo-
mics would have spouted wordy moth
structible commodities.
The fellows who had to face the
charge, however, knew only that the
field of clover was quickly being dis
PEELED for the irksome solitude of a
place provided by a too fatherly NUM-
cipality.
Ran Gninut of Human Fo1Iies.
1t was a picture pregnant with the
fallibility of man and his eager ac-
ceptance of chance to fall. The
whole gamut of human foibies and
follies was run for the benefit of those
present so that all might learn. The
first timer with quaking knees and
| anxious to whisper pleadinSs into the
ear of the austere person who spoke
the final word, W; . there: the weakling
who realized that this was but repe-
tition of former delinquencies was also
in attendance: the tried and trusty who
merely awaited favorable opportunity
to drop into the realm of the neither
world stood stqically TO one side the
exponent of principle as old as the
world-'I will live anyhow until
die"-placidly waited to hear the
length of his sentence; the time
tried sinner whose every excuse had
been previously peddled. listened,
muchly bored, by what was happen
| ing, thinking only of the warmth and
| food which would be his for an in
discriminate time-all of these were
present and marched with more or
less bravery before the man who tried.
| Unfortunately for many. the Police
| Court works every day in the year.
And what is probably more unfortu-
| nate 1t is no respecter of persons Only
| evidence is considered. And the pretty
| tales which have been conjured up over
! turbulent couch fall with little force
| before the man who must decide.
Few Serious Infractions.
Truth to tell. there were few serious
| infractions of the law. Many who left
| in a light breeze, early produced
! tornado, and were unable to return in
peace to the paternal hangar. Others
| who travelled, flooded their carbureters
! with an excess of fuel, and We're I'M
! able to find the exhaust. Still others,
| in an ambitious frame of mind tried
to establish a new altitude record, but
! found the air too rare In at least
| three cases 1t was reported that the.
aviator suffered from buckled wings and
| could not make a landing as quietly
and peacefully as might have been
! desired The rara avises suffered much
last night.
! Usually the fault was discovered in
| the quality of fuel supplied. Some
times 1t proved too powerful, and what
was begun as only trial flight car
| ried the amateur to a height which got
| him beyond his bearings and he lost
| sight or the flelu. SOile were actually
| cast adrift, and it was only due to
| the ever watchful eye of the life
saving crew that they reached port at
/ all.
Some. aerial friends sought to estab-
llish their presence or to ascertain
! their whereabouts by explosions. Not
all of the explosions came from sky
4 rockets. Fearing lest they might be
overtaken by some equally enthusiastic
| traveller in the air they fired pistols.
i Now ii is absolutely against the rules
/ of the local association that such tao
7 tics he pursued, and so the bluecoated
\ guardians of the rights of more peace
fully inclined aviators gathered In the
violators of both. the spoken and I'M
4 spoken rules.
i small Comeback Percentage.
I Under the conditions aforementioned
i the penalty is rather heavy. A fine
of 500 is imposed and Incarceration
II In a place where flying is an impossi-
L billty is administered AT least four
teen of this ilk We're captured.
ii Justice Crutchheld liberated III
prisoners on Christmas Eve lie did
this for obvious reasons, 1T speaks
, well for his judgment, as Well as Tor
the caIibre of the men released, that
Of this Number but one returned to the
bar Of justice yesterday. James Jones,
sometimes known as Jimmie, but more
Familiarity known as Chicken, abso-
lutely collapsed. He tried hard, but he
!, lcll. Ills DlpeS. were lreeZlH5,. ne Sdiu,
, and he needed something to create a
thaw.. He got it. Then somebody else
!, got him and the final result is that he
i VIII live on the city for thirty days.
" G. Foster, James Kay, Otto
II Wills John Robinson, Roosevelt Jack
son, Edward Warren j, H. Davis,
/, Clarence Allen. Charles Perkins. John
Drew, sidney Bailey. James Price and
Nelson Henry all colored, carried CON
cealcd weapons and We're fined the
usual sum sl0o-and placed under Sc
, curity for the term of one year,
Others Bite the Dust.
Emanuel Jones needed Christmas
. money and stole a bicycle from his
employers. The Capitol Loan COMPANY,
and was given four months on the
! roads Willie would hit George Dunn
: with beer bottle and was fined $40.
I Bunch Robinson bought whisley for
, white boys under age and was fined
/ as. Eugene Carson a man who7-has
lost both legs, was discharged after a
complaint that ne had becn disorder
~.
John W, Johnson, a young white
man with wife, was placed under