Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-05-31
So Docile
Detroit Free Press

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"Mrs. Caroon, you are charged
with disturbing the peace" said his
Honor to a woman weighing $50
pounds and who had head as
round as a common ball.
/ "Me disturb the peace Now, then
who could have told such lie about
meH' she exclaimed in virtuous in
dignation.
ut is here recorded that you
climbed a line fence seven feet high,
dropped into a neighbours yard, and
did then and there beat, wound,
bruise and assault one Mrs. O'Rorke.
"Me! Me climb seven-foot fence.
Me beat Mrs. O'Rorke, O! grave
where is thy sting? Judge, you don't
know me-"
"Well, | think our this is first meet
ing"
"Iou don't begin to know me!
Why, Pm the most peaceful, docile
and sweet tempered woman in De-
troit. I'll give anybody $50 to
prove that | ever hurt fly. 1t
must have been some other Caroon
indeed it must.
IN call the witness. Mrs.
O'Rorke, please step forward"
Mrs. O'Rorke was small woman,
with peaked nose and look of ST.
lent sorrow ON her face. She had
her head tied up with red bordered
towel, and there were two long strips
of court-plaster on her face.
"Witness, do you recognize the
prisoner"
Yves, 1 think | do"
Does she live next door to you?"
"Yes."
Estate what occurred yesterday"
"Ies, my dear, Mrs. O'Rorke, adj
ded the prisoner, state what occur
red yesterday. Tell the court what
loving friends we have always been
and how gently l nursed you the
time you had the bilious fever
well, she'd been slandcring my
husband, said the witness, as she
turned to the desk.
| "Slandering your husband-your
kind, faithful husband Mrs.
O'Rorke, how can you-how can
you,'
"she had also talked about me,
and yesterday morning, when | saw
her out in her yard. l told her she
must quit it, AT that she climbed
the fence"
"Climbed the fence! o, my dear
| Mrs. O'Rorke, think ola woman like
me climbing fence. Please take it
| backm
"She climbed the fence and said
she would make mince-meat of me,
and if our dog hadn't bitten her i'll
the leg guess she'd have killed me-"
"Those hurts were received at her
hands, were they"
YES, sir; besides several pinches
on my arms"
90, Mrs. O'Honor-oh, Judge
O'Rorke, it's all q mistake cried
the prisoner. "This woman eats
opium, and it was all a hal-hallu-
hallucination or whatever you call
it! Look at me your honor. See how
calm and peaceful and docile | am!
wouldn't take the life of bed-bug.
to say nothing of almost numbering
the nearest friend | have On earth.
Mrs. O'Rorke come over till | hug
you"
There is no hugging in this case y
remarked the court. Mrs. Caroon
you are fined ten dollars or sent up
for sixty days"
so, sir, I'm so docile!'
"Can't help that. Please retire tc
the corridor"
IL can't can't. It's all mis-.
take and must go home. Judge
Pm docile woman"
''That's what you're sent up for
Fall back"
Bijah escorted her into the corridor
and they had scarcely disappeared
when he cried for help. Two Off
GERS rushed in and found the docilt
woman holding him against the wal
and kicking his shins until his hear
ached. She was pulled off, but j
took the three to get her into a cell
and when the key had been turned
she cried out:
towards of the law, you dare no
give a docile woman fair show a
you'll"
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