Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-19
MORE CRAP PLAYERS
FINED IN CITY COURT
Ten Colored Bone ThroWers'
Lined Up and Fined
IS to SIS.

Determined to break up crap shooting
among the Negro population, the police
have started to clean up wherever they
find the dtIsky throwers of tho bones.
Yesterday Policemen Devenncy and Gold
had batch of eight before City Court
and today they produced no less then
ten, all rounded up at No q New street.
The batch included two women.
All the batch pleaded not guilty and
the hearing resolved itself into something
OF a vaudeville act as each argued with the
officers as TO whether they had actually
been caught with money In their hands.
seen playing or tho what not of general
excuse. One said he had been promised
freedom if he would say there had been
crapshooting at the place. Another
argued that he could not have been
shooting" because he had been drunk
and was asleep. But excuses failed and
all were fined. Those who hadn't been
in court before got off with a s. fine.
They were William kane, Sam Ricketts,,
Alonzo Guy Charles Priest, John Brew
ington Matilda Stone and Martha Kane.
Thomas Staats was fined $40 and John
johnson and William Travis SIS each.
In another case of the same ofTense
CJIstis 5. TAYLOR, white, and Harry l..
Benjamin Mcbride, colored, has
mighty hard head, else 1t would not have
stood the drive" made upon it by another
colored man, John Henry, who faced the
court on a charge Of assault and battery.
He pleaded guilty and Benjamin told
the court how it happened. They got
into an argument In pool room near
Front and Hing streets and John broke
a sturdy ash billiard cue over the others
head and then started to lombard him
with pool balls, one Of which took effect
in Benjamin s upper story. John was fin
ed s25 and costs.
CONTEMPT OF COURT COSTLY.
Douglass Griffith. colored, was ar
raigned on the charge of contempt of
court In not responding to subpoena as
the prosecuting witness In recent case of
selling liquor without a license. Griffith
said that on the morning of the hearing
be yielded to the seductions Of being
offered some drinks by friends and got
drunk He was fined $25 and costs
Philip Coravolo pleaded not guilty TO
charge of larceny OF q peculiar nature.
Lawrence Michaele said he had gone into
a grocery store at Second and Madison
streets and bought some provisions and
then inadvertently dropped his pocket
book containing $40 He did not miss
it until the next morning and then went
back TO the grocery store to see If 1T had
been found. lie learned that COravolo
had been seen with it. Later he saw
COravolo, who returned the empty purse,
declaring that there had been nothing In
it when he found 1T. But another witness
SAID he had seen paper money III 1t as
Coravolo handled it. He was held IN
$500 bail for General Sessions.
William H. Taylor pleaded guilty to a
charge of reckless driving on East Sixth
street State Detective Frank Mccoy
said that he had seen Taylor driving his
record-possessing horse and waving to
another man behind to come and have a
brush with him. He was fined $40 and
costs.
Thomas Walsh was fined $40 and costs
for disorderly conduct at Sixth and
streets yesterday afternoon.
The cases of Percy Check and Lewis
Leary, charged with larceny, were con-
tinued until Friday In the case of
Check the request was made by his mother
and in Leary's case by the State.
George Frye, accused Of driving a
past a street car dlsgorging |
passengers at Second and Market streets, |
vas fined $40 and costs.
The case of Russell Squres, charged |
With robbing q poor box at the Church of |
he Sacred Heart, was nolle pressed. The |
,hurch authorities did not wish to prose
ute
A nolIe pros was also entered IN the !
;ase of Harriet Jones, a middle-aged /
woman, accused of the theft of some small |
articles from a Market street 5-and-10- |
,ents store, owing TO her mental condition. !
The case was begun yesterday, but con-
inucd so that she might be examined
At her own request and for the purpose
If getting witnesses the case Of Dora A. |
Baldwin, accused of breach of the peace,
vas continued until Friday
A nolle pros. was entered In the case !
,f Abraham J. Mason, colored, accused
# assault and battery upon Samuel r.
white man The alleged
ssault happened outside the city limits j
DIR. Howell Iii.
DIR. Harrison w Howell is confined TO
lis bed at his home, S24 Washington