The evening times., 1896-05-29
jDDG[ KIhBlLL' 5 HUROR
DrsW Oul the Story Of a Man
Wh1 Has no Reason. !
PRISONER BEGAN TO CRY
Maggie Is a Terror When She L.
Drunk-Her Offense This Time Was
an Assault on Saloon Keeper.
She Will Wipe Him and His Family
Out When She Is Released.

Maggie Lee is in this mawnin'. b'ys." Z"
said rIynn To the bailiffs, .'aDd keep your
ois on her. she's worse thin that sInurIn we
had yiste rday wbin she gets started"
The baiiiffs took Mixes tip and watched
Maggie closely, She succeeded In creating
some excitement In court by her violent
language toward the man who caused her
arrest. John O'Br1cn. saloon -Aeeper at
No. iTl3 Florida avenue.
Maggie Is nu stranger III The police court,
and always sufficiently culpahle TO de-
serve IA worKnouse sentence, DuJ There was
ring OF truth III the statemet she made.
To Judge kimDaIl that Cal used some OF the
old habitucs to think she had provocation
in smashing the windows OF O'Brien's sa-
loon.
Maggie is tough, brazen and lost. She
is as reckless as sailor IN his cups, and
can hoe her own row in rough-and-
tumble fight with the average man. This
reputation operated against her and her
evil Life smotnered any idea The court
might have entertained OF her yeracity.
MAGGIE's REPUTATION.
Yesterday afternoon Maggie was drink
ing in O'Brien's barroom. Maggie does not
drink-she almost bathes in rum, and, ac-
coruIng to the proprietor. sue Decarne So
ABUSIVE and annoying he had to put her
Out anu iOck Jne uuof SO Sae couiun come
back.
Then Maggie's little private devil. aided
and abetted by the Mephistophellan germs
that lurk i'll the bottom OF WHISKY glass,
began to get together, and SO did Maggie
witu some uIce coDDleStones hanging around
the entrance OF u barber shop across the
way. Maggie Iired two OF them through
the windows of the saloon, smashing flve
paneS OF glass and causing CONSERVATION.
Before sne couiu Keep up her little cycilne
the police arrived aud locked her up. This
morning she lounged in the pen, making
audible comments on the court proceedings
until Kendig choked her off.
ORrlpu- StOlld. SmODtD-Slayen IrtSfl-
man, with pursed-up lip and corpulent form,
testified to tile prisoners oirense in de-
s;roying private property. There was also
a charge of profanity against her.
''She was drunk and begging in my
place. said O'Brien.- with the face OF
Billy Florence as Sir Lucius O'Trigger,
land had to put her OUT
That's Il lie,' murmured Maggie.
.'Sience, woman said kcIuig.
Faith. Ikne " she'd give 'em some foon,"
laughed Flynn, pee ping through the swing
Now. Maggie. tell your story" said
the court.
Maggie is a copperas- colored woman sup
pie and sincous as serpent Her eyes are
like a basilisks. and her teeth are cruel
white fangs. which she has used more than
once in fight.
your 'onnah." she said. banging the
rail emphaticaily. e! did cuss, ana l did
break dem winders. but not till dat I'shma Ii
hit me and frowed beer keg at me-
HER EREXPLANATION.
What led to that?'' asked the court.
1T wuZ Jess dis way, an ga wd's my
ledge. I'm tellin'' de truf." said Maggie.
II mad two drinks oh iikker: one Mister
o. Brien sold me, and his wife de odder.
Den a white genneman wants to treat me.
| an dey tells me mus git OUT
Maggie said she was on her way to the
door when O'Brien's brother in-law hit
| her and flung her roughly through the door
II sez ter him. went on Maggie, Use
| 'ooman an yOu'se q man. but come
n
Evidently he did come down. for the
| two clinched. and. according to Maggie.
| when she broke away the beer barrel
was thrown. Then 1t was she threw the
! stones.
Judge Kimbar called o'Brien back and
| questioned him closely. He denied the
| womans story.
| Maggie. when she heard the sentence.
crorcheh like a ugress in the act of
| springing.
her clenched ha nds at the phlegnatic
| O'Brien. IN fin youI" she repeated.
| falling back toward the dock. You sell
liquor on Sunday. an I'll swear to it,"
Bring that woman back here angriy
| demanded Judge Kimball, under the i'm
preston she had used an cath. Maggie
| came back at a run with kendig and might
have gotten additional time If Clerk Lum
| Farmer hadn't explained her words TO the
| court.
"Be careful, girl,'' said his honor. so
| you'll serve more than thirty days"
Maggie sent word later she had 50, an'
| Mr.. Pugh consented 10 reduction of th,
| fine, hut she changed her mind at tn
| last. womanlike, saying she would save
| it until she got out, 'have n derped 200
| time, an do up the whole o'Brien family.
THE JUDGES HUMoR.
| Judge Kimball indulged in considerahl,
pleasantly and badinage with Thomas
| Maxwell, found sleeping last night by
special officer in one of the cars in the
freight yard of the Baltimore and Potoma
railroad.
Maxwell told the Judge story of dis
eased mentality, which his honor doubted
The prisoner had stupid enough a face L
bear out his argument.
The officer said Maxwell had been caugh
| in the cars before.
.'What do you loter around that ward for?'
| asked Judge kimball Of Maxwell. a short
| black bearded individual. with eyes sunkeI
| like caverns on either side of his hOoke
nose. Maxwell passed his hand CAREFUL.
over his closely cropped head. as if he wa
trying to locate the brains he claimed to b,
so deficient in.
'your honor" he replied. somewhat wear
| lily. I'm somewhat out of my reason"
Indeed" returned the court: ''how d,
you know?"
Because Tn unbalanced. and am NO
able to work"
.'And you think working unbalanced you?'
asked the court.
.T'm sure of it, said Maxwell. impress
ively.
II know" retorted the Judge, "of
great many gentlemen who are unbalan ce
from the same cause" where do you fee
unhalanced?"