The herald., 1895-12-01
But Mary Green's Record
Is Behind Jane
Cakebread's
THE TWO WICKEDEST WOMEN
London's Celebrity Has 2S9 Sentences
to Her Credit-.Pamed RefOrmerS
Have BattIed With Both
and Sadly Failed

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 11.-Not very
long ago the London papers and periodi-
Gals devoted good deal of space to tell
ing their readers about the "Wickedest
Woman in London" OF course, to hold
such q title means lot of work in the
criminal line and many years spent in the
lookup.
The large cities Of this country are
away behind London in the matter of a
"wickedest woman" The English cham
p,on 10 Jane Cakebread, and she has been
sent up 2S9 times. She is only about 60
years old, and two-thirds of her life has
been spent in Jail.
New York has no woman to compare
with Jane Caksbread. and Chicago, Phil.
adslphia. Boston and Baltimore are sim
ilarly benighted. In fact, Newark, N.
j., 10 about the only city in the land that
can produce anything worthy to class
with Jane Cake bread. But Nsuark's claim
to this questionable distinction is small.
In the first place, her wiokedest woman
is not wicked at all in the criminal
sense; she has merely wonderful thirst
for liquor. Moreover, she has only been
in Jail 144 times, which, in comparison
to the 2S9 sentences of Jane Cakebread,
is paltry showing indeed.
But these women. both rem arkable in
their way, have many things IN com mon.
Both have been the targets of reiormsIs
for many years. Both owe their downfall
to drink. Both are we'll up in Scripture.
Neither has ever been charged with theft
for any of the serious crimes with which
IN
and disorderly are the only two
charges which they have answered in
the police courts.
Mary Green is the name of Nswark's
woman. Mary has just been discharged
for her last offense against the peace of
the city and has serious thoughts of set.
ting down. She is 70 years old and she
says it IS time that she changed her ha.
bits. She mas seen a good deal of life
in her way and now she wants the quiet
and the peace OF a respectable home.
Mary has experienced and expressed
these cravings for the beautiful and the
good many times before. but a few days
later she would be back in her old cell
serving out another thirty or sixty days.
Mary has been something Of gold
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lars worth Of fines have been paid for her
by enthusiastic reformers. Mary 10 a
wonderfully good cook. II there were
any guarantee that she would remain
sober she could earn her board and $50 a
woman.
Dozsns Of times her fines have bsen
paia By her employers. One man left
word it all the station houses in Newark
that Whenever Mary was arrested to send
for him so that ha could be on hand and
pay her fine in court. He kept his word
and paid out good deal of money. But
SO much freedom was too rich for the
woman. She got drunk with such startl-
ing rapidity that the justice became
wearisd of merely ining her. He sent her
ito Jail, although her employer was on
hand ready to buy liberty for her.
Mary Is quite modest when talking
about herself. She regards Mary Green
as the finest specimen of womanhood on
the face of the earth when INDUCING, but
when sober she sees herself with more
critical eyes. She takes pride i'll the fact
that she has never been arrested for any
thing nut intoxication, and that ell of
herkem ployers speak we'll of her and that
she never uses foul LANGUAGE even when
on q big jam bOree.
She has her own idea about the man.
ner in which she must be taken into
custody and her rules of etiquette are
never violated by any OF the experienced
policemen of Newark. Although she
describes herself as "little woman with
big thirst she eau put up tremen-
dous fight when an emergency arises,
and moreover, she always has plenty OF
friends on hand as reserve force should
the tide of battle go against her.
When the word passes around that
Mary has let herself loose again the po-
liCeman detailed to take her into cIIstodv
usually finds her the center of large