The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17
MARY GREEN OF NEwARK.
She Has Been Locked m $50 Times
for prunkenness.

3 means q loL or Work IN the criminal line
ana many years spent in the lookup.
The large. cities OF this country arc
away behind London in the matter OF a
''wiclSedest woman The English cham
pion is Jane Cakebread. and she. has been
sent up 2S9 times. She is only about
/ 20 years old and two-thirds of her life
I has been spent in Jail
New York has no woman to compare
| with Jane Cakebread. and Chicago. Phila-
I delphia. Boston and Baltimore are similar
! ~ benighted.. In fact, Newark. ~ j..
is about the only city i'm the land thar
can produce anything worthy TO class
with Jane Cakebread. But Newark s.
claim 20 this questionable distinction Is
small. In the first place, her wicked
/ est woman is not wicked at an in the
criminal sense; she has merely d wonder
Iul thirst for liquor. Moreover. she has
only been in Jail IA times. which, i'm com
| paHson TO the 2S9 sentences OF Jane Cake
| bread, Is a paltry showing, indeed
but these women, both remarkable I'm
IInelr way, have many things in common.
/ BON nave been the targets Of reformers
Tor many years. Both owe their downfall
/ 70 drink Both are well up I'm scripture
/ Neither has ever been charged with theft
| OF any OF the serious crimes with which
! the police have to dead. Drunk aud drunk
| ana dlsorderly are the only two charges
when they nave answered 10 i'm the police
Mary Green is the name of Newark's
! woman. Mary has Just been discharged
/ Tor her last offense against the peace
| OF the city and has serious thoughts of
! settling down. She is 40 years old and
| she says il is time that she changed her
| ndblts. she has seen a good deal of life
| in her way and now she wants the quiet
ana 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 mas been something of a gold
| mine for Newark, for thousands or dol
| lars worth OF fines have been paid for
| her by enthusiastic reformers. She is
! wonderfully good cook If there were
| any guarantee that she would remain
! sober she could earn her board and $50
| a q, month even now when She is a very
Dozens of times her fines have been
/ paid by her employers. one man left
! word at all the station houses i'm Newark
/ that whenever Mary was arrested TO send
Tor him so that he could be on hand and
| pay her fine in court. He kept his word
! and paid out a good deal of money. But
! So much freedom was too rich for the Wo-
| man. She got drunk with such startling
| Of merely finding her He sent her TO
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
g.
| critical eyes She takes pride in the fact
that she has never been arrested for any
| thing but ntoXicauOn, and that all Of
hef Employers speak Wen OF her ana that
| she never uses foul language even when
| on a big jamboree,
She has her own idea about the man
| ner in which she must be taken into GUS
| tody and her rules of etiquette are never
violated by any of the experienced police
| men of Newark. Although she describes
/ herself as a little woman with big
thirst she can put up a tremendous
| moreover, she always has plenty OF
I friends on hand as a reserve force should
the tide Of battle go against her.
When the word passes around that
Mary has let herself loose again the
| policeman detailed to take her into GUS
tody usually finds her the center OF a
| large crowd, singing1fat the top of her
saying:
"Ah, me laddie, is that you? l am
very wei. How yourself?'
I'm all right, It's getting late. Mary
and you had better come along now
You've had a good time and you need a
IAN right, me boy, but as I'm tired send
for me coach and four"
This means that Mary wants the patrol
| wagon and there is no use trying to argue
| her out of it, She eajoys the wild dash
of the horses and tho Changing of the
bell, and when she steps into the wagon
/ she always waves her hat to the crowd
as she is driven off to the station house.
| When she consents to walk to the lock-
up she always leans on the arm of her
policeman escort. policeman who
stand in immediate danger of a sound
thrashng. Mary will never submit to ar
rest by an officer in citizens clothes. A
policeman who knew her well and had
taken her in a score Of times once met her
while returning to duty from leave Of
/ absence. He was in citizens dress and
| althopeh Mary recognized him she said !.
Go home and take off that black coat
I and them dude pants. Put on your blue
coat with the brass buttons and the blue
pants with the white stripes ana the
I shield and the helmet and the club. and
then when you come back here dressed
/ like 4 gentleman, I'll go along
The crowd laughed and the officer be-
| came ratified. He started in to force
Mary to go along and the next instant he
was in the center of a cyclone which al
most swept his clothes from his back in
I single blast. Mary made q record for
herself then and there. The opportqne
/ arrival of a uniformed policeman settled
( the rumpus and Mary walked off 10 the
| station house, leaning on the arm and as
I proud as q peacock.
When in jail she is always a model
I prisoner Although imprisoned more
times than any six criminals in Jersey,
| she has never been sent to the peniten-
/ tiary and stands as much in dread of
that institution as any one
Jane Cazebread, the English celebrity
I owes her recent fame to the efforts Of
| Lady Henry Somerset to reform her
| Some time ago, when il was announced
that Jane was about TO begin her 2SSth
/ decided it was high time that Jane should
/ be reformed. She made the acquaintance
/ of Miss Cakebread while the latter was
/ in Jail and told her what a lovely scheme
/ had been evolved for her comfort
This scheme included nice little cot
I tage in the country where Jane should
have plenty to eat and good clothes to
wear. She would be under the gentlest
! kind of supervision and would practi-
caly be in the enjoyment of her fun
/ liberty.
The idea pleased Jane cakebread and
upon her release she prepared to make
. the new start in life. OF course ii was
necessary for her to bid her old friends
a last farewell and while performing
this melancholy duty Jane became glori-
/ ously drunk. She was again marched off
to the station house and is now SERVING
/ her 2S9th term in Jail.
Whether Jane ever becomes the occu-
/ pant of the nice little cottage in the colln-
/ try remains to be seen.
Rats!
Come, be brave now! Don't disgrace
/ your blOOmersp'