The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-06-11
mo, ! WON'T"
And When n Woman says She Won't, She
Won't, and There's an End On't-Re-
becca Jones' Grit.
IN. Y. speclal.l:

becca Jones' Grit.
IN. Y. speciall: ...
Miss Rebecca Jones sat four hours in the
Surrogate's Court, with worried smile on
her face. She listened with indifference to
the proceedings in the Hamersly will case,
in which she has so positively refused to
figure as a witness, busily occupied all
the time in warding of persons who
wanted TO make her speak.
When an amended petition had been
read, making J. Hooker Hamersly q party
to the case, Mr.. Franklin Bartlett rose and
said he greatly regretted having TO ask foI
the committal Of the refractory witness,
Miss Jones. Then, turning toward her,
he said: 'Miss Jones, are you willing to
testifyW
Miss Jones was on her feet in moment,
and she stood proudly erect, without the
support of column, lawyer or friend. Her
waving fan spoke volumes, and her tongue
tried to say even more, but was stopped
when II had got as far as "No, sir, won't.
never will, now or ever, and"
Then Mr.. Bartlett and the Surrogate said
they would have to proceed, and two men
were soon busily engaged on ominous-look.
ingpapers. From that moment Miss jones'
serenity remained unmoved. Deputy
Sheriff Crawford came and sat down and
gazed hard at her, but still she smiled.
The ominous papers were finished. In
them the people Of New York told the
sheriff that Miss Rebecca Jones had treat
ed the Surrogate shamefully and contempt
uously, and that he must take her body
and hold and keep it until she should re-
pent.
Tears Of pity stood in the eyes Of the
Surrogate for the lady who had treated
him with contempt. So they did in those
OF the Sheriff, who pulled his mustache at
great length and seemed loath to begin.
But Miss Jones was firm as adamant. She
cast glance OF stern disapproval at the
young man who YVES sketching her face,
and smiled on everybody else. She laughed
as she shook hands with the now broken.
down Surrogate, and told the Sheriff he
must hurry up, as she was tired and hun.
CRY, and wanted her bread and water.
"0ne crust of bread and a cup of water
/ every day is all shall want in my new
home. can keep quiet on that till the
Judgment day. But mind" she added,
"Mr BARTLETT spoke about costs. want II
distinctly understood that II ain in jail
must live free. Go and get me blacl-and
tan cab, and come with me till get all my
things 10 take with me-"
The Sheriff demurred. "Why, Lord.
man." said the imperative lady, ''do you
think can spend the rest of my life in this
one suitS Come right along till get my
elittle trunk with three changes. and my
valise, and my shawl, and my parrof, and
the other things. We can take them IN the
cab with us, and II you live in the prison
where | live perhaps We can get no nirt-
ntion.n ~ fNe f Wf'y o.
Miss Jones laughed heartily, and the
Sheriff, won by the last remark, promised
that the black-and.tan should be forthcom.
ing, notwithstanding tho parrot and ths
I Other, things. Everybody said good-by
Mr.. Bartlett shook hands with Miss Jones
and said ,he was very sorry, but she t5b
him she didn't mind, and smiled once mon
as her body was led of by the Sheriff, wh,
had boon dlrecsed 70 takejt.