The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-26
A Fair Show.

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 cannon ball.
"Me disturb the peace Now, then,
who could have told such lie about
me !" she exclaimed with virtuous
indignation.
1T is here recorded that yon
climbed line fence seven feet high,
dropped into a neighbor's yard, and
there did beat, wound, bruise and
assault one Mrs. O'Rorke."
Me? Ne climbed seven foot
fence. Me beat Mrs. O'Rorke. o
grave where is thy sting Judge
YOU don't know me-"
"Well, | think this our first meet
ling
"You don't begin to know me!
Why, I'm 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"
"I'll call the witness. Mrs. O'Rorke
please step forward"
! Mrs. O'Rorke was a small woman
with peaked nose and look OF
I silent sorrow upon her face. She
had her head tied up with a red
bordered towel, and there were two
long strips of court plaster on her
face.
"Witness do you recognize the
prisoner ?"
"Yes, l think do"
''Does she live next door to you ?''
"Yes."
''State what occurred yesterday"
"Yes, my dear Mrs. O'Rorke,
added the prisoner, state what oc-
Cured yesterday. Tell the court
what loving friends we have always
been, and how gently nursed you
, all the time you had the bilious fe-
ver."
i swell, she had been slandering
, my husband" said the witness as
, she turned to the desk.
'Slandering your husband-your
kind faithful husband. Mrs. o.
| Rorke, how can you?"
} ''She had also talked about me,
: and yesterday morning when | saw
/ her out in the yard. l told her she
) must quit it, At that she climbed
? the fence"
Climbed the fence o, my dear
/ Mrs. O'Rorke, think of woman
= like me climbing a fence. Please
: take it back"
: "She climbed the fence and SAID
: she would make mince meat of me,
e and | guess if our dog hadn't bit
her, she would have killed me.
!. Those hurts were received at
l her hands, were they.
f Yes sir, besides several pinches
e on my arms.
Y 80 Mrs. O'Honor-oh. Judge o.
5 Rorke, it's all a mistake !" cried the
!. prisoner. This woman eats opium
= and it was all hal-hallu-hallu-
e cination or whatever YOU call 1t
/ Look at me your Honor See how
!, calm and peaceful and docile | am
5 | wouldn't take the life of bedbug
|. to say nothing about almost mur'
t dering the nearest friend | have on
5 earth. Mrs. O'Rorke come over til
d | hug you"
n There is no hugging in this case,
e remarked the court. Mrs. Caroon
t YOU are fined ten dollars or sent ul
t for sixty days"
d 80, sir, I'm SO docile !"
S Cant help that. Please retire tt
k the corridor"
d Il can't can't its all a mistak,
a and | must go home. Judge, I'm ;
l. docile woman"
That's what you are sent up for
Fall hack"
Biiah escorted her to the corridor
Fl and they had scarcely disappeared
;. when he cried for help. Two off
= GERS rushed in and found the docil,
II woman holding him against the wal
kicking his shins until his hear
= = ached. She was pulled of, but j
= - took the three to get her into cell
: and when the key had been turnet
:. she cried out
= "Cowards Of the law, you dare no
:. give docile woman a fair show al
~ Won ~