The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-01
DAILY SESSION OF
.RECORDER'S COURT

More family troubles were thrust
upon the police court officials yeSter-
day morning Mrs. Gentry, with TWO
Intelligent little ones walking beside ner
and a bright looking little baby IN hef
arms, munching upon a banana, was
before his honor, charged with slap
ming the seven or eight year old son
of Mrs. Gardner.
The statements of Mrs. Gentry and
two of her children were to the effect
that she did slap the Gardner boy as
he was trying to ride away the Wneel
of the Gentry boy and would not turn
loose when told to do so. 30 MIS-.
Gentry slapped him loose.
The Gardner boy had made nlckel
scrubbing the floors of Mrs. Gentrys
domicile she having recently moved into
the neighborhood, and this did not SUIT
Mrs. Gardner, who said her boy came
home all wet. Later the little fellow
told her Mrs. Gentry had threatened to
throw hot water on the Gardner fam
lily.
The family kettles went to boiling
and the steam waited about the neigh
borhood and Mrs. Gentry getting up
about so pounds, jolted the Gardner
kid"
IJnon her own admission that she
had taken the law into her own hands.
the court fined Mrs. Gentry 81 and
costs and told her the law.
Mrs. Della Farley, a good natured
buxom white woman told the court
she could not leave a nickel laying
around the house loose but her sailor
husband gets his fingers tangled up
with it.
Mrs Farley was charged with mas
hnl
A bottle, on the head, and it was not
a shampoo or sham blow. She said
he hung around the house until he I'M
earthed sic of her money and that was
the last she saw of Farley or her.
monev for some time but Farley came
hack without the money. In order to-
prevent Farley from spending all of
her revenue the court assessed her SO
and costs for laying the bottle up
against the head of the alleged head OF
the house.
Willie Jones, a negro, was charged
with vagrancy He was caught hang
ing around pool rooms. He told the ar
resting officer he was sick.
The officer told him that pool room
was not an infirmary. Jones told thel
Judge he was sure enough sick and
the court suspended sentence for tent
u9NS lot MN W IbbupCiopC 90 SDAAAN
other place except the pool room.
George Lett. full grown negro was
fined 90 and costs for riding bicycle
on the sidewalk. He told the court bel
did not know it was against the lawi
to ride wheels on the place reserved fn-
pedestrians. To impress this muci
legal knowledge upon Lett, the cour
levied the fine.
w. G. Ward had a run in with a street,
car conductor over the matter of ac-t
cepting transfers 1t appears Ward
boarded the car at the wrong place for
transfers to be cashed in by the CON-
ductor. Words followed and one dare1I
the other until the conductor alighted
from the car and peeled Ward one with
what looked and felt to him like a |
switch bar.
Neither man looked very mad il
court and the weight of evidence in re. !
gard TO the transfer transaction wa |
against Ward. Outside of the switch
bar figuring in the 'arid atmospheric |
debate. there was not much to the cas- |
and fhe court discharged Ward.
Jim Mason a lettering negro lost his |
war Thursday night and was wan -
ing in re outskirts Of the city. Tina i
was what he said. He has lived in
Pensacola for The past six months anil
testified that he worked. But he did
not know how to get home last Pght |
although he could see The lights Of the
city very plainly He said he was
from Alabama. L
Here YOU rest So and costs" said
the court.
G.. C.. Fletcher and Nettie Grove,
with a social crime, were be-
fore the court with witnesses against
them The man was fined 50 ana costs
ind the woman SO and costs