The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-12
1lfIEST SATURDAY
hight ON 2tcss3
$1,000 R1nnctton Of Cr%me and Dds
~egaer One of ea>e Happiest Features
& - Abolition OF whassSey TrAfio

os1eang q new record for q Safur-
ny utghA end improving on Last
0AkurNAU night tho hrst of pronioi-
4 Con, only one drunk was arrsstod tn
ne CITY OF Rschnlcnd yesterday. This
oone drunk 6td not Ynaterialtne ur*'t
ntdnight. AID was one OF the I'VE ar
rests made In the entire city yest~s-
day.
A condition. unparalleled In ths
nenaory OF any police o1Hoer IN the
city prevailed last night at Il o'clock,
when there was only one arrest Tor
the day. and that was '-'via' AFFAIR
on the Souths;de. No Satu day 49, ?
has ever been known to la. II pro
Auce a large number OF d~un1s &C.
sAults. disorderlies. cuttine sap s..
and what-not but yesterday ard = y
night the effects OF proht 3ition VS. g
emphasized by the axt-er4e ordsr int
was being maintained IN very % 4
OF the city.
Never saw the Liza
Captains. sergeRnts and pa'rolIr en-
OF long service declared that they hed
never seen ths equal Unusually Fat
arday nights have Kept the officers in
q state q constant expectancy, the
patrol answering Call after cal. and
the desk sergeant busy entering the
name OF prisoners on mis- Alotter. In
I'll shortly before Midnight. tho First
Police station known as The bloody
first did no. have q single arrest
entered or is books a. the Sec nd
Station there was likewise clean
shee;. the only arrest being MINOR
charee al 2he Third Station IN Sugth
Richmond.
However. around midnight one
drunk was brought into the First To-
lice Station, and three other arrests
were made. none OF whlch wa the
result OF a1ient spirits About /
o'clock a blind tiger Was discovered
by officers Of he Second District and
quantity Of l4Hor was confiscatej
by the police This will help AL tho
CUTTERS tomorrow.
Total Of SIX
At about 80 O'Clock this morning
there were total Of six arrests n
The CITY one - which vas tie tsfnt.
Last Saturday night there were
about thirty arreats IN the entire city,
three Of Which were ror drunk ess-
Eaturfav two weeks ago. the last one
before the ali euI Of prohibition, there
were about seventy FIVE arrests in the
city. th!rtg-Ave q which were
s'drunks'
The rerna-kahle change IN condI-
lions, as ths comparison ahows, IL
attributed by the police entirely to
tire good effects Of the prohibition
law One Off Ger stated that had he
been told that such wonderful
ell ara IN conditions would follow the
eTfo~et o1ent of the Mapp law, he
-~~sa fa@s eatd e was impossible.
And the condition last night is not
4Aa4 cH "a continue as good.
dot 10 GROW butter,
Police Court Quiet.
a.. Police Court business IL falling OF
very noticeably these days aA evi-
deneed by records from tho police
FtatIons. and by the deserted aspect
presented by Justice Crutohfeid's
court The crowds that have been
accustomed to visit the now famous
court OF the One John and pack the
room to its ca pacity have begun to
decrease gre is in size. because ncw
there is little &c interest them. John
Barieycorn, on his departure from the
State evidently took a great many
of his friends with him, for a large
majority of arrests made sincA No
vember ! have been on very trivial
charges.