The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-22
MARY GREEN OF NEWARK.
LOCKED UP IA TINES FOR
DRUNKENNESS.
The Wickedest Woman in the United
States--She Lives in New jersey and
Has Given the officers Lots
of Trouble.

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Has Given the Officers Lots
of Trouble.
From the Chicago News.
Not very long ago the ,London pa
pers and periodicals devoted a good
deal of space to telling their read
ers about the ''wickedest wo-
man. in London. OF course, to hold such
a title means lot of work in the grimm
inal line and many years spent in the
lookup.
The large cities of this country are
away behind London in the matter of
"wickedest woman" The English cham
MON is Jane Cakebread, and she has
been sent up 289 times. She is only
about so years old and two-thirds OF her
life has been spent in Jail.
New York has no woman to compare
with Jane Cakebread, and Chicago, Pull
adelphia. Boston and Baltimore are SIM
i)arly benighted. In fact, Newark, N. j.,
is about the only city in the land that
can produce anything worthy to class
with Jane Cakebread. But Newark's
claim to this questionable distinction is
small In the first place, her wickedest
woman is not wicked at all in the crimi-
nal sense; she has merely wonderful
thirstlfor liquor Moreover, she has only
been in Jail IA times. which, in compari-
SON to the 2S9 sentences of Jane Cake
bread, is paltry showing, indeed.
But these women, both remarkable in
their way, have many things in common.
Both have been the targets of reformers
for many years. Both owe their down
fall to drink. Both are well up in scrip
ture. Neither has ever been charged
with theftor any of the serious crimes
with which the police have to deaf.
Drunk and drunk and disorderly are the
only two charges which they have an
swered to in the police courts.
Mary Green is the name If Newark
woman. Mary has just been discharged
for her last offense against the peace OF
the city and has serious thoughts Offset
Ting down. She is 20 years old and she
SAYS it is time that she changed her
habits. She has seen good deal OF life
in her way and now she wants the qniet
and the peace of respectable home.
Mary has experienced and expressed
these cravings for the beautiful aud the
good many times before, but few days
later she would be back in her old cell
serving out another thirty or sixty days.
Mary has been something of gold
mine for Newark, for thousands of dol
lars worth of fines having 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 $40
month even now, when she is very
old woman.
Dozen of times her fines have been
paid by her employers. One man left
word at all the station houses in Newark
that whenever Mary was arrested to send
for him so that he could be on hand and
and paid out good deal of money. But
SO much freedom was too rich for thf
woman. She got drunk with such start
ling rapidity that the justice became
wea lied of merely filming her. He sen
her to Jail, although her employer was OF
hand ready to buy liberty for her.
Mary is ouite modest when talkins
about herself. She regards Mary Gree,
Ae finest specimen of womanhood OF
- face of the earth when INDUCING, blu
sober she sees herself with more
crl...Al eyes. She takes pride in the fac
that she has never been arrested for any
thing but int0xication, and that all o
employers speak we'll of her and tina
SIC never uses foul language even Whel
ou.: big jamboree.
} has her own idea about the man
IN which she must be taken into Gus
tody and her rules of etiquette are neve
vloIated by any of the experienced pc
licemen of Newark. Although she de
scribes herself as the ''little woman will
a big thirst she can put up tremen
us fight when an emergency arises, ant
and, moreover, she always has plenty o
aI,iends on hand as reserve force shoult
the tide of battle go against her.
When the word is passed around thai
Mary mas let herself loose again the pc
liceman detailed to take her into custody