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Colored Crap Shooters. - - William Carter and Floyd Washington of Parkville, also colored, were brought to Platte City last Sunday by Constable Fuller Gresham. These “gemmen” had been indulging in the festive sport of crap shooting.
The trial of Carter and Washington was set for Wednesday before Judge T. B. Flannery. Port Williams and Earl Anderson, also colored, also of Parkville, came up to testify in behalf of Carter and Washington and say that the latter were “too much gemmen and hadn’t been shootin’ no craps nohow.”
But the colored troops got mixed and their testimony was so scattering that it was found that Williams and Anderson had been crap shooting themselves and when the evidence was all in all four were ready to plead guilty. So Judge Flannery assessed their fines at $25 and cost, each.Date(s) of Creation
9/22/1905
