The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
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"Please, SIR let mamma go home with
-. If you send her away, there'll be no
one to take care of little Alice; and then
she's so good to all of us. We won't let
her go away again and-get drunk, and
she won't want to, we love her so. Please
10 let her go"
"But don't your mother spend the mon
ty for drink which ought to buy you
bread ard putter'"
"Only once in while, sir; there never
was better mamma than ours, and we'll
bake such good care Of her and be so good
that she won't want any more whiskey,
cause it's that sir, which makes her bad
Snce in while"
"What have you to say, madam. You
have been let off so many times on good
promises that am losing faith in you.'
@Your honor, know | don't deserve
any mercy at your hands, but for the sake
Of these darling children let me try Cnce
more to be the good mother they tfink |
am. God only knows why can't help
drinking and why should degrade my
self by getting DRINK and then abusing
these innocent little children. thought
This would be the last time and that they
would be so much better off without me
that said | would drown myself and
was angry when policeman pulled me
put of the lake and saved my miserable
hfe. | don't do anything to feed and clothe
lhem why do they love and pity me soo
| only spend their hard earned money for
drink. How much better for them if |
gould be dead! l have helpless little
babv at home who is almost starved,
know, and yet none of them ever com
planned My God, what thing l am !!
You don't know how l despse myself
is there any hope for me, do you think,
tir3 l wish could deserve their kind
hess and love and your mercy. If you
tan let me go again my broken promises
,hall be renewed, and III swear by the
help of my Maker to keep them in the
future"
"Let the fine be $Ioo, but will sus-
send it and try her again"
A scene, in the North Side police court
on Monday last is only half reproduced
IN the above narrated colloquy between
Justice Kaufman and two others-one a
woman As years of age, but with an up
parent experience Of the saddest kind
Stamped on her features, and the other a
child not vet nine wears old. There were
other parties present who did little but
smother the sobs which choked off any
attempt to speak,
There were other children of the dissi-
pated mother-a daughter Il years of age,
very neatly but plainly dressed, and with
an intelligent and cultivated countenance
asoa two years younger, and another boy
about seven. This last child and the lit
tie girl who pleaded for her mother we're
standing on either side of the woman and
clinging to her dress and hands. The
woman was Mrs. Mary -, and she
was before Justice Kaufman for being
drunk and disorderly The term "disor-
derly" is we'll known to cover a multitude
of sins and misdemeanors, and in this case
applied more to an attempt to commit
suicide than any thing else. An officer
on the day previous saw her wandering
along the lake shore, and kept so close
watch Of her that he was enabled to be at
hand and pull her from the lake soon
after she had plunged head foremost be-
neath its waves from one of the piers.