St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-20
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Relief Agent Hutchins Unearths
Mother Frochard and Fam

Relief Agent Hutchins Unearths
Mother Frochard and Fam
fly.
A good case to illustrate the fact of
misplaced charity has just been brought
to public notice through M. L. Hutch
ms, general agent of the relief society,
vice family consisting of three grown
young men and widowed mother. One
of the sons, while at work for short
time, obtained letter of recommended
ton from leading business man. He
soon ceased working, and began to VIC
tmiZe the people on the letter with a
plausible story. and obtained money
without working by telling how I'M
fortunate he had been through sickness
and losing his situation. and had an
aged, crippled mother to support, ETC.,
etc. During the last two years he has
succeeded in obtaining, from citizens
who seem to believe it is more charita-
bic to give and ask no questions, both
money and grocerie in abundance,
while many who are unable to work
have not received because they did not
beg.
Another son would 60 out Saturday
toward evening and, beginning to
tremble and with tears in his eyes,
would state his deplorable case as fol-
lows: II have had the typhoid fever,
am not able to work; have wife and
we are so destitute we have not enough
to last over Sunday" And he would
be helped, the benevolently disposed
individuals thinking they had done a
good work of charity.
Notwithstanding this family have
,N1 Ixr al nf Inf oh
ms to cease begging, they have con-
an extent that ladies have gone to the
house and to the relief society with
baskets of delicacies for the poor, sick
child, which was represented by the
mother. The sick son so represented
has been arrested at the instance of one
of our citizens and sent to the work.
house for ninty days. Another of the
idlers has been compelled to surrender
his letter of recommendation, and the
mother and another son will be COM
PEELED to earn all honest living or share
a similar fate. Citizens who wish to
aid the poor can at any time consult
the books of the relief society and be-
come posted regarding these applicants.
SCORE OF SUNDAY SINNERS
Pay the Piper Before Judge
Burr's Tribunal.
Judge Burr, good natured and in the
best of spirits, sat upon the cushioned
throne in the police court yesterday
morning. He was greeted by the usual
large Monday morning docket of Sun
day sinners. John Nolan and T. e. Ley
den, the men arrested on suspicion of
having thrown James Mcclure, of 2S3
Prairie street, down the stairs leading
to Labor hall, were fined $40 each for
drunkenness. Mcclure is not seriously
hurt, and says his fall was purely ac-
cidental. Mollie Smith, the colored
prostitute who feIgned death at the
central police station, and caused so
much excitement, was discharged.
She was charged with having been
drunk and disorderly. Mary Redden,
accused of dlsorderly conduct, was dis
charged. A Northern Pacific conductor
giving the name of W. II. Grant, who
was the complaining witness against
her, forfeited SIS bail. The ticket
was Slugged on the head with a rolling
pin, receiving bad scalp wound.
Charles Lawrence, waiter at the Cliff
ton, was charged with stealing IS from
Mary Nualey, chambermaid. He was
discharged. ''Henry George" was the
name given by the son of Seventh
street shoe merchant, who was accused
of striking a woman. Judge Burr
thought single tax was the thing in
'Hehry's" case, assessing him S25. Mrs.
d. Danielson, who broke her husbands
head with stick Of wood, was released
under a suspended sentence of thirty
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