THE JUDGE--Six months!
(A great laugh rises from the courtroom at this. On inquiry we learn
that the "joke" depends upon the judge's well-known aversion for negroes
from North Carolina.)
Only recently I have heard Walter C. Kelly as "The Virginia Judge." Save
for a certain gentle side which Mr. Kelly indicates, and of which I saw
no signs in Judge Crutchfield, I should say that, even though Judge
Crutchfield is not his model, the suggestion of him is strongly there.
Two of Mr. Kelly's "cases" are particularly reminiscent of the Richmond
Police Court. One is as follows:
THE JUDGE--First case--Sadie Anderson.
THE PRISONER--Yassir! That's me!
THE JUDGE--Thirty days in jail. That's me! Next case.
The other:
THE JUDGE--What's your name?
THE PRISONER--Sam Williams.
THE JUDGE--How old are you, Sam?
THE PRISONER--Just twenty-four.
THE JUDGE--You'll be just twenty-five when you get out. Next case!
CHAPTER XXIV
NORFOLK AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD
Just as New York looks newer than Boston, but is actually older, Norfolk
looks newer than Richmond. Business and population grow in Richmond, but
you do not feel them growing as you do in Norfolk. You feel that
Richmond business men already have money, whereas in Norfolk there is
less old wealth and a great deal more scrambling for new dollars.
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