Telegram-herald., 1890-04-26
POLICE AND COURT
Here Vice and Crime sit for Their
Photograph
FR0Y CHILDHOOD 10 HOlRY AGE
A ksmArkAbls Old W0mans without .
Rons And Bsrsft Of Reason D1t
Losaea Dswn With Mensys
Makes = ssasattsn

Was taken 10 the jail, and Df. Pen
warden, county physician, was sent Tor.
Grady was pronounced ali right mental
ly, and was set up again before HIS
Honor IN the afternoon. The CON-
plainant had charged that the man had
used towards him most abusive lang
uage. He pleaded guilty, and asked
the court 70 consider that ne had great
proyocstion. Before the passing OF
sentence, his wife asked 10 be per-
mitted 10 make a statement. She SAID
her husband had been SICK. under
medical treatment, for several weeks,
aud the language charged was used IN
his own yard while he WAS at WORK.
He had always been hard working
man, and had never before been found
in the clutch of the law. His Honor
stated that, under the circumstances,
he would impose the lightest fine pos
sible, 81 and costs.
Yesterday afternoon the patrol wagon
conveyed TO headquarters tao women
and one man, whose presence created
something of 4 sensation even among
the men who arc acustomed TO strange
sights, The man was the son OF the
elder lady, ana being common drunk,
he was set one tiIe as very common
place object. The younger woman was
k!ttie Hobbs, who was present simply
as the friend of the old lady. The
latter was q small, nervous old lady,
who seemed and was utterly conf lsed
as TO her whereabouts. ln appearance,
she was about so years OF age, although
she was stlll vigorous in body, II not IN
mind. She was dressed IN q dark ealico
dress and brocade shawl, and on her
head was black straw bonnet OF 1.-THE
days of Noe, when the ark vas a-pre-
paring." She was III highly excited
state of mind, because she was under
the impression that she was lgoing to
be locked up. Her talf was
strange mixture of incoherency
and wit, fragments of truth and
hallucination. She was born
in Suffolk. England, and has led the
life of wandering peddler from her
Garlic S. youth. She at first insisted that
she was forty years old, but'a sudden
flash of memory broughtthe confession
that she was over eighty. Her son says
she is eighty-eisht. She could give no
account of where she came from, and
said she came to Grand Rapids TO get a
$1,000 bill changed. OF course this
looked absured. She vas brimning
full of the sort of witand wisdom that
one finds IN the lower chaaresers OF
Dickens. She said her son was drink
! inc and that he had gwen her worlds
of trouble. She felt painfully ap2re-
hensive that her money was
| 4,t hut a
was 10 be locked up. She
wrung her hands and gave wild express
sions of a religious natute over the dis
grace that had apparently fallen upon
| her. While trying TO remember the
town she had come from, she insisted
| that 1t was the town where she had got
| her money changed. Finally she
pulled from her bosom package
winch, upon being unwrapped, dis
| closed fat roll of bills and savings
| bank book. Thus it was learned that
| her name is Rebecca Brown. There
stands to her credit on the bank book
| the sum of 500. The roll OF money
| contained twenty-three one-dollar bills.
She SAID she had the hank give her all
ones because she could not read, and IN
this way she could not be cheated. The
lady VINO was with her stated that
| mother and son came TO her house, al
| 1913 Spring-st., the day before Yesterday
and asked for lodging. AS the old
| lady seemed TO be as well provided ioT
in the hands of Mrs. Hobbs as she could
be IN the hands of the police, Superln-
tendent Eastman ordered her TO be de'
livered over to that lady's care. The
son was, of course, detained and when
he sobers up, will probably be atle to
tell as interesting a story as many
novel contains.
The driver of this pencil is not the
first person who has had occasion L
tell how discouraging IT Is to try to dc
ANYTHING for ones fellow man. IL Is
safe TO say that ninety-nlne hundredth'
of the Kindness done to man benefit
only the doer. About fort
night ago, one William SauTmar
stood convicted OF a drunk, and haylns
no money, ne was ordered to jail. Big
hearted 1ozer felt sorry fol the fellow
and urged the writer of these lines t.
go and Iutcreede with the judge anC
try and get the fellow sentence sus
pended. The prls0ner fairly bursteS
with grsttud, saying that he had-i
family who would feel deeply the Dis
grace of hrs situation. The ludg
agreed TO suspend the sentence tor tw'
weeks. on cOnd ton the fellow woult
return and pay the fine. That was ar
ranged and the felIow,went away loudl.
calling for the blessings Of Heaven OF
the whole police crowd protesting tina
he would not fail to b back. But h
was not back yesterday, and mitumu
was issued, which, II IT finds MN, VII
snatch BIN into the midst OF yer.
different crowd from that winch n
siObbered over two weeks ago.
There WAS taken to headquarters las
evening hy Officer Scobey, as violent
lunatic as ever went mad. He seem
to be respectable citizen who hs
suddenly lost his mind. When ne va
taken 70 the iaii, Il took three men :
c ntrol him, but about 10 O'Clock las
evening he was well ouieted doWr
Among his effects was found Al eT
velope upon which the following Pa
written: "Rahard Waters. lamp fille'
Leave notes for lights" Oh tne q
/, v51ope = the printed card Of E. A Cor
| nelly. So North Front-st- No doui
these words vii aFord safscient dat
/ for a complete identification o. tne u
fortunate man.
Here s another instance d cs'
that ought never b have been brougi
: INTO court Iena stang corn f'laiiis
{ thas Joseph Thiei called Der a o
r rotten witch, ard threatened Z, y !
Z every bone II her body. Thitl pes !
/ guilty 20 the technical cnaIzsf -
J added some InfoTsnstsen afoat ttle $ s.
e cunsstances thst chsuged n.sSe..sl !
p the con1plexyoa Of shings. he - =