Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-26
PLEASE LET, HER 90 HOME"
TIE PLEA or A LITTLE GIRL IN A
JUSTICES COURT IN HER
MOTHERS BEHALF.
TCh;ca0O Times.

Chtcd00 Times.
"Please, sir, let mamma 90 home
with us. Ifyou send her away therell
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
and got drunk, and she won't want
to, we love her so. Please let her CO."
"But doesn't your mother spend
her money for drink which ought to
buy You bread and butter :"
"Only once in a while, SIR; there
never was q better mamma than ours,
and wen take such good care of her
and be so good that she won't want
any more whisky, cause it's that, sir,
which makes her bad once in n
while"
"What have you to say, madam I
You have been lot off SO many times
on good promises, that am losing
faith in YOU"
Your honor, I know | don't deserve
any mercy at your hands, but for the
sake Of these darling children, let me
try once more to he the good mother
they think J am. God only knows why
Ican't help drinking, and why | should
degrade myself by getting drunk and
then abusing these innocent little chill
dren. | thought this would be the
last time, and that they would be 50
much better off without me, that |
said would drown myself, and l was
angry when q policeman pulled ne
out of the lake and saved my misera-
Die lifo. ] don't do anything to feed
and clothc them /; why do they love
and pity me sol only spend their
hard learned money for drink. How
much better for them if ] could be
dead! More than once, your honor,
have they gone hungry for days, and
been dressed almost in rags, just be-
cause l had spent the last pennies fol
drink. ! have n helpless little babe
ut home who was almost starved,
know, and yet none of them ever
complained. am not fit to 20 back
to them; send me to the Bridewell
where I may find fit companions il
drunkards and outcasts, and can scrul
and dig at the lowest work till make
myself forgetful that ! ever had Q
home and such precious children. Ny
God, what q thing l am! You don
know how dcspise myself. IL there
any hope for mo, do you think, sirf
wish could deserye their kindnes,
aud love, and your mercy. If 20,
can lot mo 90 again my broken prom
ises shall be renewed and I'll swca
by the help of my Maker to keep then
in the future"
"Let the fine be one hundred dol
lars, but ! will suspend it and try he
again"
A scene in the North side polio
court on Monday last is only half pro
duced in the above narrated colloqu
between Justice Kaufman and tw
othcrs-one woman forty-five year
years of age, but with an apparen
experience of the saddcst kind stamp
ed on her features, and the other
child not yet nine years old. Their
were other parties present, who di
little but smother the sobs whic
choked off any attempt to speal
There were other children of the dis
sipatcd mother--a daughter Of twent
one years of age, very neatly b,
plainly dressed, and with an INTEL
gent and somewhat cultivated coul
tenance; a son two years younge
and another boy about seven, Tn
last child and a little girl who pleade
for her mother were standing on eith'
side of the woman and clinging to h
dress and hands.
The woman was Mrs. Mary Creigl
who lives in rented rooms at the co
nor of Erie and Franklin streets, al
she was before Justice Kaufman II
being drunk and disorderly. ii
term "disOrderly" is well known
cover multitude of sins and misd
meanOrs, and in this case apple
more to attempt to commit suicit