St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-28
THE MONSTER WITH AZ GREEN EYE
Caused Ole HawkinsOn to Make Fool
OF Himself-The Hard Fate of a
Waif-A Small Monday Grist.

There is no lunacy so contemplate or
disastrous in its results as the insane
freaks Of him whose mind is possessed with
the nightmare of love, jealousy. Ole Hawk
inson has a dose of the disease and he has it
bad. Last Saturday he swore out warrant
for the arrest of Ole Peterson on the charge
OF committing adultery with his wife. The
parties were all in court yesterday and the
trial, which resulted in the acquittal of Peter
son, was racy and replete with interest.
In the first place Mrs .Hawkinson appeared
in most intensely interesting condition,
and considering that the date of the alleged
intimacy was on the 23d inst. the charge was
preposterous on its face The peek-a-boo
Benedict who thus made holy show of his
wife and a circus for the audience. testified
that the accused had occupied a room in his
house for three years and that he had seen
Mrs. Hawkinson kiss and embrace him.
Other witnesses testified to seeing Mrs. H.
come out of the defendants room, but
none of them had seen anything out of the
way. Mr.. Hawkinson testified that she
rented Peterson room and that she kept it
in order for him. Occasionally she would
cook his coffee and assist him in other
friendly ways. She blushingly denied that
anything improper had ever taken place be-
tween them, and intimated that her peek-a-
boo lord and master was just
jealous crank. Peterson, a mild
looking Swede whom anybody could see
was not guilty, denied the charge and after
hearing a mass of testimony the court Or
dered him discharged. To make matters a
little warmer for him after his arrest on Sat-
urday, some one broke into his trunk and
stole $50 gold piece, all his wealth.
John Donohue is another kind of crank !;
he is wife warmer, and when
he gets little of the old stuff in him he
goes home and thumps the old lady.
He went home last Sunday prepared to knock
out both his wife and his mother-in-law, and
he started in by throwing crockery and
utensils at them. Somebody called copper
and his festive nibs was yanked to the
cooler. He resisted the officer and for this
he was given twenty days, and on the charge
of disorderly he will have TO give $500 bonds
for his good behavior.
She could not have been more than fifteen
years of age, and when the name of Lena
McCosky, charged with vagrancy, was called
timid, childish voice answered Eyes" and
pair Of big, innocent eyes looked into the
face of the court as if to enquire what it all
meant. The police said that she was home
less and friendless; they did not think she
was bad girl, but she could not be left to
freeze and starve on the street where she was
found at 1 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. As a matter of cold charity,
my masters, you who live in
the stately mansions and have your petted
darlings around the sparkling fire place and
well filed board, this child with the strangely
bright eyes and starved face from which the
roses have not been pinched yet, was com
mitted for thirty days. What are you going
TO 90 about it?
After this half dozen buns were sent to
the bastile for short terms and the court took
recess.