Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-06-17
Daisy Deaue.

Daisy Deane sat on one of the low
benches i'm the front row. Her pretty
face was rather flushed, and her bold.
black eyes had lost some of their bright
ness, for Daisy Deane had been drunk
the night before, and was locked up.
One of her friends" however, had Sc
cured her release for the night, under
promise that she would come to court
and answer, and i'm keeping with her
promise she had come. Daisy Deane was
one of the fallen and one of the widest
but it was the first time she had been
called on to make a promise of the kind
or TO answer, for Daisy Deane was noted
as "a new One."
| She sat i'm the front row, strangely sub
dued, and she looked upon the proceed
ings of the court in listless way, and
was apparently unconscious Of the adj
miring gaze of the clerks and the admir-
ing glance Of the Judge.
| The ''drunks" and disturbances" were
trOtted out and trOtted i'm again, and still
Daisy Deane looked OIL and seemed to see
nothing; until, at last, an old woman
was led out-a woman with .-ray hair,
wrinkled face and hands, and shabby but
neatly patched clothes. She advanced in
a dazed way. and trembled as she stood
before the Judge.
The old woman had been arrested as a
vagrant.
The officer said he had watched her.
She had habit of coming back of town
at all hours of the days and night he
had seen her when he was on day duty
and when he was on night duty, and she
had habit of looking into the windows
of some of those houses back of town i'm
a strange, searching way. When he
asked her, "What are you ND to, and
what do you do for living ?" she gave
no satisfactory answer, and he had taken
her i'm as being on 'sthe vag."
The formal question was put by the
Court: "What have you to say ?" And
all she had to say was-and she said it in
a quivering vOice-"I was looking for nv
daughter, sir.''
| This was no answer under the law, and
The Court, having in one question COM
piled with the forma6ties asked no more,
but passed sentence, "Ten dollars or
twenty days."
An officer took charge of the old wo-
man and started for the dock, when Daisy
Deane arose. ''StOp, officer p she said,
and advanced to the clerks desk, laid
down $40 bill, and pointing to the old
woman, said, For her." The clerk nod
ded to the officer, and as Daisy Deane re-
sumed her seat the old woman murmur-
ed, ''God bless you, my dear, God bless
you," and then went out.
After while Daisy Deane was called,
and she came to the bag. In obedience
to orders she gently raised her veil, and
turned to the Court pale, tear-stained
face, and the clerk whispered, There is
something the matter with her,
The formal question, What have you
to say ?" was put, but she made no an
swer, and the Court passed sentence,
''Ten dollars or ten days."
The clerk held out his hand for the
fine, but she turned quietly away, low
cred her veil again and walked to the
dock, and when the gate was opened
went in. The clerks, the Judge, and
everybody were astOnished.
She was one Of ''the BATCH which en-
tered the Black Maria, She served her
time, although 'friends'' offered to pay
the fine, and after that she was never
seen back of the town and was never
again brought in.
The officer who arrested Daisy Deane
state one night that he had seen her i'm
earlv morning while on his way home,
on quiet street up town. with that old
woman. He said, .You would hardly
know her. she was so neatly and yet so
poorly clad, and was so tender with the
other;" and he expressed the belief that
the old woman had found her daughter
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