Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-17
AN ELONGATED D. DOCKET
Number of Misdemeanor Cases Dis
posed of By The Police Court
This Morning

breakers of Saturday night oelng
MANY, besides violators Of the law
active on the Sabbath. This morn
ing, the cases tried before Justice
Thompson were unusually numerous
there being over a dozen disposed Oh.
Besides the case of Jumbo" Bry-
ant, colored, convicted on three dill
ferent counts, there were an even
twelve others, who faced the oar
charged with misdemeanors' the
!irst of these being Matthew, bolaeh'
who had escaped from the Occoquan
work house, and who was held 1or
The authorities. Ella Shirley, cnarg-
ed with disorderly conduct and fight
ing, forfeited S., collateral by failing
to appear, as did also Pauline Brent
colored. A negro named Cornelius
| Curtis, was dismissed on the charge
of disorderly conduct and hghtlng'
the Brent woman, with whom ne
was alleged to have been scrapplng,
not being present, and there beng
no evidence to show that he had pro-
voked a fight.
Jesse Poole, colored, was fined S2o
for carrying concealed weapons, ana
a white man, bearing the cognomcn
of Robert Rainey arraigned on the
charge of vagrancy, was sent to jail
for five days. Rainey claimed ne
could find work, but was no
physical condition to work, saying
he galway would see things when
walking up the street, and had Jug
eled too frequently with the cup that
cheers.
! Another case of alleged violation
Of the Sunday "blue law" was slat-
cd to be heard in court this morning
Harvey Daniels being summoned on
that charge by the police. When
Daniels case was called, however,
he was not to be found, and it was
ordered that warrant be served on
the man to compel him to appear to-
morrow.
Albert Harrison forfeited s. left
as collateral to appear to answer a
, charge of violating the traffic law.
and the case of John Hutchinson,
. charged by Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Pullman, with running dGfwn Sheir
five year old daughter Freda, last
Friday. was dismissed, it being
shown that the little girl ran in front
If the car, that Hutchinson stopped
The machine as soon as possible. and
had not been running ovr II miles
per hour. The little child was not
seriously hurt, although bruised sew
crely about the shoulders.
Two residents of this city faced
the bar on a charge of reckless driv-
ing, but were dismissed, it being
nroven that the horse they were driv-
! ing had gotten unmanagcable for the
] time being, but that they soon had
the animal under control.
The case of a resident of King
street charged with maintaining "a
/ nuisance. insomuch as he allowed
! water to run off his premises into
those of neighbor continued from
Saturday, came up this morning. An
agreement was reached between the
| accused and his neighbor for the re-
medying of the trouble.
The case of white woman, charg-
ed with using abusive language to-
wards another woman, was dismissed
upon the ground that it was case
of defamation of character and
could only be heard in a civil court.
"Jumbo" Bryant, colored, was ar
ranged on three separate charges,
and was convicted and fined five dol
lars on each count Not having the
wherewithal to make payment, he
was sentenced to ninety days on the
roads of the commonwealth.
"Jumbo's" defense of himself was
ludicrous, and smiles and filters were
in evidence around the courtroom.
On being convicted of the third
charge, he demanded from the court
if there was anything else of which
he was guilty, but was hustled by
the officers back in,o his cell.
The three charges against the ne
gro were assault and battery on Car
re Williams, colored. theft, and sell
ing fish without making the proper
returns.