Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-28
WAR SPEEDERS
RESULT IN FINES
FOR 4 OFFENDERS
City Court Puts S25 Penalty Upon
Automobile Drivers For Too
Fast Gait.
CHASTENS GAMBLERS TOO

Coincident today with the resumption
of business on full schedule in City Court
came n sort of frst-fruitS OF the war the
pclice have declared upon the automobile
drivers who daily fracture, crack. violat
and otherwise set at naught the speed
laws. Recently there has been a very
gre deal of this sort of thing and the
authorities have set their faces firmly
against and intend to break IT up.
This morning no less than four lndlvid-
uals faced Judge Churchman charged
with driving machines at greater rate OF
speed than the law allows. Motorcycle
Policeman Pierce was the prosecutor rs
well as the arrestor In each case.
! The first case was that OF August
Seibert. caught running too fast on Fourth
street between French and Shiplcy. He
was fined s25 and costs. Joseph Ostrow,
caught going 81 miles an hour i'll the VI
cinitv of Ninth and Jackson, was assessed
a similar sum. Edward Dennis, en-
.plnyed bv the lynch Construction Co,
was also hncd S25 and costs for his hurry
up gait on Ninth street near Monroe,
although plea was made i'll his behalf
To the p,Irport that the company drivers
had orders to- speed up. James Myers
also wa, sentenced To pay S25 for fast
driving on Market street on Saturday
morning. although he denied he had bro
ken the law
sotler form of violation Of the auto
mobile laws TUNED up IN the case 81
Norman, Cantlcr who pleaded guilty 70
operating machine without the proper
lights 1c was fined $40 and costs
PIC rArcH or GAMBLERS.
i sccurj ID tune Of the session was the
alrusual number 81 cIarshooters and
csrlh}c,s 10 appear Nest o. them had been
&'caught with tie goods and pleaded
guilty therefore Gf tfe cra artists foss
Ctapu AZ MSS red $40 ara costs, having
been in court tcto,e upon the charge, while
Nilh2m Matthews. RAYMOND Paisley,
Cla,cIce II Nlhert Francisco. Frank
Taxlo. Tin othv alcy Frank Ncascv. Jr
4ld Maurice Illrn were fined S. and
ct,StS each Charged with playing cards ina
3ubhc p@cc Giuseppe De Crosta,
francisco OIivcrc and Francisco PeIsrne
aerc fined 81 and costs each
Two men accused of assault and battery
found the LAYING of violent hands upon
some one else to hc rather costly piece
OF business.
The Arst Of these vas William G Kelley,
q white man accused by AIcNandcr
Bacon c1lorcd, with having assaulted
hm with Il kctchup bottle at Fifth and
Poplar streets Saturday night Bacon sand
the ASSAULT was entirely without prov
ocation and was supported IN tins by the
testimony of a man who witnessed IT.
Kelley said he had been drinking a little
but did not remember having done as
Bacon said To this was added testimony
to the effect that Kelley had not been out
OF the house more than three minutes
''Well. said Judge Churchman. .lt
I IL .gzr- h1
head with i ketehup bottle, and the wit
ness who corroborates Bacon says he Is
quite sure Kelley did it, So Kelley was
fined So and costs.
WIFE HIS AccUsER.
NIillard Seeley. the second Of thes
tree-fsted folks. was accused by his wife
of STIR king her a number Of times on
Saturday night Mrs. Seeley said that when
she came home for q breathing spell from
her work her young son said daddy was
t4eating him something awful and was
drunk
Apparently she learned this was true, be-
cause. she said when she demonstrated with
Seeley he cursed and swore AT her and
struck her 1t was S25 and costs for him too
Another case Of recalcitrant husband
materialized in Harry Kronmeier. ac-
cused bv his wife OF dlsorderiy conduct.
a week ago, she said he was drunk
Saturday Sunday and Monday, struc'l
her and drove her out OF the house.
de works at Harlan 5, she said kronmeler
WAS held in $500 peace bond
AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
Joseph Welch. whose face was very
familiar to the court, who had seen it some
{ ing like a score of times before, also
figured on a disorderly conduct charge
Marshall Butler, colored who said he
worked at the d. B. Martin slaughter
house. said Welch came in there to take
shooze woudnt go out and started rough
house tactics
Where have YOU been, Joseph"
asked the court we haven't see n ,voI
around here lately
Joseph averred he d been down in the
oounrty. but this did not save him from
the imposition of a SO fine and costs.
Il Johd Wallen and William G
Beaumont. also accused of disorderIy
conduct in having caused disturbance and
the gathering of a crowd at Fourth and
Poplar streets on Saturday night after
thev had engaged in an argument over the
payment for some work, were given the
benefit of the doubt which arose in the case
and were set free.
LYDIA Brown, coi0red, who started
something at Third and Tatnall streets,
by calling another colored woman names
which particularized on the State of
Alabama and herself, didn't fare so we'll,
the said names resulting in fine of S.
and costs
FOUR NEW ARRIVALS.
Four newly arrived youths, said to
have con into town via sidedoor Pull
mans from Cleveland were arraigned
for the theft of quart and pint of
milk and loaf of bread, which apparent