The daily gazette., 1879-05-06
.'out Of the Deeths Have I Cried =

IChicagO Times.
"please, sir. to let mamma 90 home
with us. 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 60 away again and-and
get drunk, and she won't want to, we
love her so. Please to let her CO."
"But doesn't your mother spend her
money for drink which ought to buy you
bread and butter?"
ssOnIy once In awhile, sir; there never
was better mamma than ours, and we'll
take such good care of her and be SO
good that she won't want any more whis-
key, cause it's that, sir, which makes her
bad once in while." splla
"What have you to say, MADAME You
have been let of 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
once more to be the good mother they
think ] am. God only knows why l
can'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 so much
better off without me that said would
drown myself, and was angry when q
policeman pulled me out of the lake and
Saved my miserable life. don't do any
thing to feed and clothe them; why do
| they love and pity me SO? only spend
their hard-earned money for drink. How
much better for them If could be dead!
have helpless little babe at home who
was almost starved, / know, and yet
none of them ever complained. My
God, what a thing / am! You don't
know how despise myself. Is there
any hope for me, do you think, sir? !
wish / could deserve their kindness and
love and your mercy. If you can let me
go again my broken promises shall be re-
newed, and I'll swear by the help of my
Maker to keep them in the future"
"Let the fine be 500, but l will sus-
pend it and try her again." 1H
A scene III the North Side Police Court
on MONDAY last is only half reproduced
| III the above-naTated 'cello4sfy betwee
Justice Kaufman and two others-one
a woman forty-five years ofage, but with
an apparent experience of the saddest
kind stamped on her features and the
other a child not yet nine years old.
There were ether parties present who did
little but smother the sobs which choked
off any attempt to speak. There were
other children Of the dissipated mother
"a daughter twenty-one years of age,
very neatly but plainly dressed, and with
an, Intelligent and cultivated counte--
nance; a son two yeats younger, and
another boy about seven. This last child
and the little girl, who pleaded for her
mother. were standing on either side OF
the woman and clinging to her dress and
hands. The woman was Mrs. Mary
and she was before Justice Kaufmann for
being drunk and disorderly. The term
"disOrderly" is well known TO cover .
multitude of sins and misdemeanors,a land
in this case applied more to an attempt
to commit suicide than anything else
On the day previous an officer had seen
her wandering along the lake shore and
kept so close q watch on her movements
that he enabled to be at hand and pull
her from the lake soon afier she had
plunged head foremost beneath It's waves
from one of the piers. -r