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Show oo NEGRO MUST PAY THIRTY DOLLARS Miles Leadbetter, the strenuous colored runner for a hotel was fined $"0 or thirty days in pollco court this morning for disturbing the peace by calling a competitor names. Leadbetter is posted at the Union Dopot and is the only negro stationed there ns a runner by uny of tho local hotels When he testified In his own behalf he stated that the other runners run-ners were in the habit of playing prank3 on him because of his being a colored man Yesterday morning, he said, some of tho other runners, or expressmen had hidden a suit case which he had secured from a guest and had caused him to miss a street car Next a cab driver," engaged by another hotel, had taken one of his prospective patrons. This last act so provoked him that ho threatened to thrash the cab driver and showered him with abusive names. The Judge told the colored man that If ho could not control his temper better than that, he ought to get a Job as hodcarrier and quit acting as runner. With this admonition, sentence sen-tence was Imposed upon the colored man. The negro's offer to leave the citv if the fine was suspended, and also his statement that his wife and family would suffer while ho was imprisoned, wore unheard by tho court. |