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Show 1, L Mill. HELD i IB Bl OF SlBfWT H. L. Greenwell of 2428 Monroe Avenue Ave-nue stood with two charges against him this morning in police court-He- was arrested last night by Chief T. E. Browning and Captain Mohlmann ! for drunkenness, assault and distur- : bance of the peace. 1 According to the officers, Greenwell ; ' is a railroad baggage man and had gone to his home last night where a i row ensued between him and his wife vho, when the police arrived, they i found in a badly battered condition ' and bleeding from the nose and mouth. , After the row with his wife. Green. i well had gone back to his room in the Arlington Hotel where the police followed him on the complaint of his l wife and there they discovered the eight j'oar-old boy of the pair in the j arms of a Mr. Hartog, a traveling man of this city who himself was in a ( disturbed condition, and Greenwell i also showing signs of having partaken !of liquor. Searching the room the of- : I ficers found a case which bore the appearance of a whiskey case, and in j I the drawers of a dresser thoy found I 'twenty -four bottles, twenty-three of M them empty and one bottle with still , a woo cirappie lert in it. ; i Charged with being in possession of j liquor, Greenwell stoutly denied it l and said that he knew nothing what- ' I ever about the bottles, but confessed that, on the completion of his duties . s some days ago at an early hour In i the morning, he had taken two, men ; out to Honeyville whom he found were ; 4 transporting a case of whiskcj. Tliej : gave him three bottles of the Iubrlcaal : j and $5 for the ride. About any other ; whiskey he knew nothfng, except that !? when he came in from work yesterdaj j ' he found a pint bottle of whiskey on i his dressing table half full and he ; j took "one." ' u The testimony of the police was to j ,(j the effect that Greenwell had gone . home under the influence of liquor, ; :(j had abused his wife, and used an au : tomatic gun on some boys outside his ? j( home on Monroe avenue. X Greenwell's own testimony was : $ tho effect that he has serious domes , q, tic difficulties, that on account oi c these he engaged a room at the Ar- "J fi lingtdh hotel, that in response to a tel-ephone tel-ephone call from his wife he had gone home where she abused him, throw ; ing a coffee percolator at him ana I Ff otherwise abusing him. so that he nan to retaliate, and that he did cause her t nose and mouth to bleed; that he wa-s . not drunk, that he had had "one oiu efj of the bottle on the dressing tawe. ; that the cause of much of his domds"- , unhnppiness is the influence of otnei ,. women on his wife; that in order i ,, -j frighten them away from his home n ,p had shot the gun In the air. ; tyj, On the charge of drunkenness. JUMJ y,- Roberts found him guilty and nne -if him $100, which he paid. ,t . J e Hearing on the charge of assau. . and disturbance of the peace will com. , .before Judge Roberts tomorrow. ; .jp Meanwhile Greenwell, who sajs " . hg. has worked at tho Union Depot i . j fifteen years, that he has BupportJJ . his wife and child to he Jim t of W . y ability, that he is not ' Jg ; , Tift latter charges against him Is engyiM : ,t his liberty by reason of bail pa'a L tho amount of ?200, f Jig C hi.. |