+Justice Dealt Out to Folk Who Talked Too Much+

All the Negroes and whites who were arrested in the vicinity of Tuesday’s tragedy had a hard time before Recorder Hughes yesterday.  Lee Jackson was the first prisoner, and the evidence established that he made his way to the vicinity of the crime and told his Negro friends that he thought a good many more policemen ought to be killed.  Jackson said he was drunk when he made the remark.  He was fined $25 or thirty days.

  John Kennedy was found wandering about the street Tuesday night with an
  open razor in his hand, and he was given $25 or thirty days.

Edward McCarthy, a white man, who arrived only four days since from New York, went to the scene of the excitement at the corner of Third and Rampart Streets, and told the Negroes that they were as good as any white man.  This remark was made by McCarthy, as another white man said the Negroes should be lynched.  McCarthy told the recorder that he considered a Negro as good as a white in body and soul.  He was fined $25 or thirty days.

James Martin, Simon Montegut, Eddie McCall, Alex Washington and Henry Turner were up for failing to move on.  Martin proved that he was at the scene to assist the police and was discharged.  Montegut, being a cripple, was also released, but the others were fined $25 or thirty days each.

  Eddie Williams for refusing to move on was given $25 or thirty days.

  Matilda Gamble was arrested by the police for saying that two officers
  were killed and it was a pity more were not shot.  She was given $25 or
  thirty days.

+INSOLENT BLACKS+

“Recorder Hughes received Negroes in the first recorder’s office yesterday morning in a way that they will remember for a long time, and all of them were before the magistrate for having caused trouble through incendiary remarks concerning the death of Captain Day and Patrolman Lamb.”

“Lee Jackson was before the recorder and was fined $25 or thirty days.  He was lippy around where the trouble happened Tuesday morning, and some white men punched him good and hard and the police took him.  Then the recorder gave him a dose, and now he is in the parish prison.”

“John Kennedy was another black who got into trouble.  He said that the shooting of the police by Charles was a good thing, and for this he was pounded.  Patrolman Lorenzo got him and saved him from being lynched, for the black had an open razor.  He was fined $25 or thirty days.”

“Edward McCarthy, a white man, mixed up with the crowd, and an expression of sympathy nearly cost him his head, for some whites about started for him, administering licks and blows with fists and umbrellas.  The recorder fined him $25 or thirty days.  He is from New York.”

“Then James Martin, a white man, and Simon Montegut, Eddie Call, Henry Turner and Alex Washington were before the magistrate for having failed to move on when the police ordered them from the square where the bluecoats were Tuesday, waiting in the hope of catching Charles.  All save Martin and Montegut were fined.”