The New York herald., 1878-11-02
mo MONEY! NO FRIENDs!"

SAD SCENE IN JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE
couRr-soPHIA KLAUssER's STORY.
An ofaosr brought TO tho bar in Jefferson Market
Police Court yesterday poor woman In bu.
fantastic guisc. She had . history. Her head
surmounted by an old straw "sundown," on which the
style and fashion ad long gone down. She
wore an old brown poionaiss and q parsi-colored
gingham skirt tattered and torn. Her jaws
bound up with q oirty white cloth and her toes
peeped iurtively from soleess shoes. Brown ana
tanned ike a gypsy sybi she stood forth the very
queen OF shrsds and patches.
.who is she, officer 2" asked the Court
.'An ould thramp and station house sbum,, Yer
Honor"
"Don't lean forward, a'ye hearp" CALCULATED an
officer in an undertons TO her she moved a step
toward the desk 10 hear the charge against her.
"lm mot = tell" responded she, Indignantly. .l'm
poofj dat's ALL"
whats your name, good woman?" said the Court.
"My uamc ess Sophia Kiausssr." she replied, IN q
strong German accent, .and l came from Fersan-
"You came from Fernandlna-whenYn
"Aore - swo years ago. vas = recon woman In
Fernandeena; l own inres houses and come away
North init my Two cneeldren. l am not gssity Of
emmy crime. Oaiy could not 90 last enough ior dis
Ofceer. ask for lodgings In de station house, but
II was 100 early TO get them. 1 goln away. vncn
come back dom, eau &c. emmy place - shesp. SO
No money no ir,endsI One blaze vas shust de same
By andra. Ho arrest moi Das tst allies ~
'What part OF Fsrnandins did you come iromY 20
said the Judge
.sTwo years age lif on Ash street. BY Fourth. and
After my husband die come init my Two little cneel.
dren North mere. leave my property IN charge sf
my agent, John Allsrman, = steamboat man dot
bace, und tell him ho shall send me my money 10 New
YORK. Vunce only he send me money anu vunce my
mudder IN Germany send me sumo Zoo, und put dot
money IN the Gsrmsn Savings Bank, by Fourieenlh
work, und never hear from IN agent FloriIa.
Me und my cniidren starve und stay nj ights In
dc street. sometimes We shecp out dot station
house und wri,c, und write, und write to my agsLL
Den pooty soon don't hev cnny biace 10 stay, 1nd
send my leetis vuns 10 dot Juvenile as lum try
l'm worse und worse, una den l cannot work or got
somsdngs TO do. SO don'I got money TO pay my
fare 10 act asylum. SO hsv not seen my kinder
my cnseldren, Tor moro ~ seven months. Und |
don't know vhettur my houses vas burnt vats der
mater. I am not bad voomanl Mol mol
Shudgei"
.Arran she's an ould gypsyin grows the ofncsr.
but ths Court did not hear nim.
..Wil you 60 10 Fernandina u send you there %
observed Judge Morgan.
"vat shall 40 mdoul my kinderf Obi Shudge,
want DOT soc my iecIlc vunG don't know III
dem bo dead or not 1 aout want my houses so
IN much my cheeldren. Shall 500 demf sleep oui
streets. But my chseidren, 4 want 10 know II dem
are vellfn
There was . trsmor In her otherwise hard voice,
madc monotonous Dy privation aud sorrow, and she
clasped her poor tanned, tony fingers together and
raised her sharp wisliui black eyes 70 hrs iac~.
''Ssnd her TO the Commissioners Of Charities and
Csrreeton 10 Os cared ior, and ask them 10 investi
gate her charges against this Alderman. IL she has
spoken truly sho ought 10 DO sent 10 Fernandtna
proceed aga INST him, was the Courts rejoinder.