The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-18
cinema OF Crime
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Police BLOtter

/ Police BIotter
Where is Stella?
"a one Is the nifty negress who rot ,bo
sMSannjiy washing from the home off II ' ~ |
Trvs lsS south ldlewild street,
rue 10 the old game, Stella has faiIod
70 %reappear with the wash . iaLleu
slYe Stella. "o"'e 'he elu-
WI Taamble, ~, auto mechanic. ono
Green 90 amble brothers, and G. II
IiaLSSen' q, farmer, Oakville, Tenn uare
Ja'ied at 2:45 o'clock Tuesday ,norn,nn
~ charges OF assault TO murder nnI
CARRYING pistols. Their victim is ,oaand
~ the police blotter by the Mans ~
SeMaru AVels' It Is understood that /
rnSn' ofsr q bottle OF whisky caused the
hobinson and Smith arrested NJ MI !,
and Green. teu lahlDle
because a quantity of narcotics is
nseeu among the loot of a THIEF who
second 'ne Inelsea Drug company store,
Seron1 street and Mill avenue before
GAVIN Monday, police are inclined ~ ~
heVe the thief Is a drug addict. They
nave round no trace of him bowavor
Ednuy' cigars and a rifle also were
NahVis
There Is a 17-ieyel y W p
watch at detective headquartars nonu
oai ponce station, for the owner who
a iuehtliy 1t by stating the ronn1
cram on its back. PatroImsn TaoL
ynsr rescued the timepiece from a 10
me end youtn monday at Poplar ave-
nuJ aug fourth street, where he was
trying to sell 1t for what he Could 90
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~, '. Douglas WAS treated Monday
~ the General hospital for cuts which
ne sald ne received in an auto accident
IN front OF 400 Madison ayenne liz
was only slightly injured. Police ba,e
no record of the accident, ~
numerous complaints from woman
passengers that men were In the habIt
~ sinokng on Hollywood street cars led
70 the arrest late Monday afternoon ~
~. j. Cousins, Al, carpenter, 1o3O Park
sI1eet, and J. ,. Morley, 2s, machinist,
lod North Bellevue boulevard Roth
nlen were docketed at police headuuar-
teTs on charges of misdemeanors,
determined to break up the practice
o. smoking on cars-partlcularIy which
carried women passengers-the Mem
pms street Railway ompany had
charles Berry, their special officer ~
get Patrolman Linson detailed To work
WIN MN, Linson arrested the two men,
ously. 'eNt
faIlure to heed the warning of a hold
UP man, who commanded that he nut nm
ms hands, may cost the life of John ID,
Moore, negro laborer, S12 East Heiskell
avenue. But John will have s2s which
ne saved by running, in case he lives.
Moore was going home, walking on
Lduuerdale street, hear Iowa avenue,
about O'Clock Monday night. when n
e-toot, black negro hailed him, and
commanded that he put his hands up.
Moore lied, h .highwayman fired two
shots. One struck Moore under the left
shoulder blade. But he fled on. He
reached a grocery store, from which he
was conveyed TO the Negro Baptist hos
pltal for treatment. Policemen Pryde
and Drummer. Jr., could find no trace of
the stickup man.
When j. r. Burton. 204s Cowden ave!
nue., got on a Vance avenue street car
about $50 o'clock Monday, he had a.
pocketbook containing $25, When he
got off the car a few minutes later, he
did not have the po%cketbook, nor the
money. He t~elephoned police he thought
a negro had picked his pocket, as he
fought through a crowd of them to get
to The front of the street car.
After six negroes had testified against
N' bidllCHl, UuttilGT, "a BuIleT avenue.
in city court Monday, Bianchi was form
ally bound over to the state on charges
OF receiving stolen property. Then the
negroes were taken to the desk SER
geant, and charges Of housebreaking and
larceny were placed against them.
This was the action Monday in the
case OF the seven men charged with
having committed wholesale robberles
on grocery stores, tailoring establish
ments and other merchandise houses in
the past four months. They we're known
as the motor truck burglars, owing to
their custom of using a truck to cart off
a great portion of their victims stock.
Police place the loot at a valuation of
SIC. 1000. The sextet was arrested by
Detectives Taylor, Clark, Bishop and
Joyce. Emergency Policemen Drummer
and Pryde participated in some Of the
arrests.
The employer who needs six husky
men as laborers will do well to commu
nicate with Judge l.. T. Fftzhugh, of
the city court. He assessed a fine of
$40 each against a half dozen men in
q, city court Monday, on charges that they
were lettering around the depot. Then
he instructed Joe Cole, court sergeant,
to communicate with the Memphis Ter
minal corporation. to see If they could
use the men as laborers, as each man
] expressed his willingness to work. But
~ VIZ tONipH " MI dAiOh hp
, them. Now the men will have to go to
the w%orkhouse unless some other en-
y ployer needs laborers.
Theodore Scott. negro, pabbed by De-
= tective Jack Klinck Sunday night. afr
g somebody" had telephoned a drug store
z to send rs cents worth of medicine AMI
change for $40 to a certain corner.
! learned Monday in city court that 1t II
T bad practice to be sitting around such
y n corner, particularly when two other
: negroes are lurking in the background.
: Theodore may not have been mixed up
in the change deal. but he drew fines OF
g s25 each on vagrancy and disorderly
conduct charges from Judge l.. T. Fitz-
hugh. Later the disorderly fine was
dismissed, but Theodore's folks are out
8 the s25 which 'vag'' cost. Maybe more,
4 for Theodore's lawyer was seen after
: court with a nifty roll OF bills in his
: pocket.
. Great Weather.