St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 11, 1895 

“It appears from the evidence that your offense consists in having been found standing beside a drunken man. I think that you were arrested because of prejudice against your color. From the manner of the officers on the stand I judge this to be the fact. The police appear to believe that all colored men are scoundrels and thieves. I accordingly discharge you, because if I held you, it would be unsafe for any colored man to be found within a block of a drunken man.”