The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-04
CITY COURT MONDAY.
HELD LONG SESSION
FILLED WITH WOE ].

| 1t was a long tiresome session of
| the city court Monday. Three cases
called were YEARLY drawn out because
lawyers were there for the defense and
| it appeared that contending parties in
! cases We're both on the defense. Hence
there was a mass of legal lore exploited
| in this tribunal. If Blackstone had
| heard some of the legal views ex-
| plotted he would have revised his
authorities and gone broke paying the
publishers.
A new kind of diversion was dis
| covered when four negro women and
one negro man. were up for being
drunk and disorderly. 1t appears that
Ernest Scott is some kind of a porter
on Pullman sleepers and near the rail-
road station Sunday night he had
!, as agreeable company Ethel Chambers.
Sadie Adams, Emma Williams and
Annie Virgins.
They were in the drawing room of
the sleeper and liquid refreshment
were provided. They raised sand"
and white folks told the railroad au-
thorities. All five were arrested. 1t
took about an hour to get at the con-
dition of affairs on board that Pull
man. 1t appears that there was an
other negro man in the party but he
'lit rag and escaped. One OF the
women stated that she met this man
who told her he was the supervisor
of the Pullman sleepers and he would
be mplimented if she would join the
party, that he was in full authority.
Revelry reigned until the police
came and spilled the beans" and the
supervisor leaving hurriedly without
bidding his guests goodnight.
The court thought it about the right
time to check any such new diversions
in Pensacola and fined Ernest Scott
$50; Ethel Chambers $40: Annie Wig
gins $40; Sadie Adams IS and Annie
Williams SIS.
Henrietta Covington, a negro wo-
man was accused by Lizzie williams
with stealing s14 from her home. The
police arrested the Covington woman
and she had $40 and the change was
different from the denominations the
Williams woman said she possessed.
The Covington womans husband stat
ed that he was making So and had
given his wife the money. 1t was
testified by a prominent white man
that he knew the Covington man was
a hard worker That he had been
married seven years and got along well
with his wife. There was not any
evidence that the accused took the
money of the Williams woman and
she was discharged.
Rudolph stephen, a negro boy, was
turned over to the county, after the
court had heard a charge against him
of going through the trousers pockets
of a white man, who was working in
building and had changed his street
clothes for working apparel. The
how said he was guilty insofar as
putting his hands in the white mans |
of them
Stephen claimed he was looking for |
match but when searched it was |
found he had his own pockets filled
with matches. The court thought |
Stephen could repeat his story to the |
judge of the county court, that being |
the place for him.
Matte Wade used bad language. She |
is a negro woman who told the court |
that the police had right to arrest her. |
But they did and were justified when !
the court ordered that she pay So and
costs. This peeved Matte and she
took her seat, a much injured negro
lass.
White people also delayed proceed
ings with many witnesses to tell of
a family row where man beat his |
wife every morning he felt like il |
and who did not like another white |
man who had boarded in their house. |
w. Brown appeared in court with |
scars on his face and hands and said |
his body was a mass of bruises. That |
Charles Rister had kicked in his door. |
walloped him a couple with his fist. |
took his shotgun and broke the bar