Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-15
'Out Of the Depths Have 1 Cried to
Thee"
Chicago Times.

Chicago Times.
please, sir, to let mamma go home
with us. If you send her away, there'n
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 and-and get 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 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 a while.''
"What have you to say, madam? You
have been let off so many times on good
promises that l am losing faith in you"
EYOur 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 1
am. God only knows why / can't help
| drinking and why l should degrade my
| self by getting drunk 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 1 would drown myself, and
was angry when policeman pulled me
out Of the lake and saved my miserable
life. don't do anything to feed and
| clothe them; why do they love and pity
me so? / only spend their hard-eaI ned
money for drink. How much better for
them if could be dead 1 have help
less little babe at home who was almost
starved, know, and yet none of them
ever complained. My God, what thing
I ami You don't know how despise
myself. Is there any hope for me, do you
think, sir? 1 wish l could deserve their
kindness and love and your mercy. If
you can let me go again my broken prom
ises shall be renewed, and I'Il swear by
the help Of my Maker to keep them in the
j FUTURE
'Let the fine be 500, but will sus-
pend it and try her again"
A scene in the North Side Police Court
on Monday last is only half produced in
/ the above narrated colloquy between JUS
/ tice Kaufman and two .others-one awo-
man forty-five years of age, but with an
apparent experience of the saddest kind
stamped on her features, and the other a
child not yet nine years DID,. There were
other parties present who did little but
smother the sobs which choked off any
attempt to speak. There were other chill
dren present of the dissipated mother-
daughter twenty-one years of age, very
neatly but plainly dressed, and with an
Intelligent and cultivated countenanee; a
son two years younger, and another boy
about seven. This last child and 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 wal
before Justice Kaufman for being drunk
and disorderly. The term s'disorderlv'
Is well known to cover multitude of sins
and misdemeanOrs, and in this case an.
piled more to an attempt to commit sui
eide than anything else. On the day pre-.
vious an officer had seen her wandering
along the lake shore and kept so close 9
watch on her movements that he was en-.
| abled to be at hand and pull her from the
lake soon after she had plunged head fore
most beneath its waves from one of the
| piers.