The evening times., 1896-08-05

-&an Tneu st0day ,sand among them We're
two who are constant contributors TO the
records OF the court-Annie Foley aud
Annie Fash, yictims-or drink. Both have
had it in their power to be happy wives
and mothers, but love OF rum has dee
based almost every tender feeling they
possessed.
Ann.e Foley is a dumpy, ed-ha.red snub-
nosed female, with a vitriolic tongue and.
tie temper of a fiend. No. matter how rag.
ged her attire,she Is always well shod, and
iseXtremely proud of her small feet. As she
leaped lightly this morning from the Maria,
her high heels clacking OH the stone steps
leading u the cells, she met "P apa" Marks,
the veteran officer who has supervision over
the'pfisofiers. Mafks has a stately, military
carriage, and is proud or his well-kcpt white
whiskers. cut after the fashion made IA
nous by the Old dead-and gone lion of the
house of Hohenzollern, Kaiser Wilhelm.
who's i'm jay?'''
Marks is also the coiner of quaint ex-
pressipns, Which be .infiicts on the prisoners.
TO their bewilderment.
MARKS STRANGE WORDS.
''Good morning, Annie," lie said to bel
iigerent Miss Foley, "you are looking very
squeedischius This fine day. N. j. told
<ae yeu-araS- tieJaaiated, but, 'poD me word.
can see no signs OF it,
Ainie Slapped her fat hands on her broad
hips, and bore down on Murks like
schooner under full sail.
In the divils name," she said, "wot
koind av u furriner air ye, my way, an
m. j. replied Marks, lis Mike Flynn
Annie, wor king herself into fit OF
auger, declared Marks and Flynn and all
the rest of the police force were in IL plot
to keep in her in the workhouse.
wait Jill me- trial." she cried, its a
new jedge / go against, an I'll git off
-suure, ffsthefe's-a bit av blarney left in
me sowl."
This i S Annie Foley, your honur," said
Prosecutor Pugh, "yDu have met her doubt
less before, -
Indeed he hasn't" said Annie, "I've
niver seen hts good, aisy tace Eefore.''
''oh, yes. you have" observed Judge
Scott. You We're before me last sum
mer =.
- 'Twasn't me; IL was me sister,"
contended Mrs. Foley.
Kendig earned her eternal hatred by say
lu- slIt ldu uO sisttE
Policeman Best told the court that
annie WAS reeiing drunk on the street yes
terday.
''Cursing?" asked the court.
Il should say So" replied Best. Il
wouldn't like to repeat what she said''
..wil you listen to that man." exclaimed
Annie ''an' me a hlessin' of him all the way
to the Iock-up!"
"You'l admit being drunk" said the
judge.
"Indade, l won't. TUX some pills fer
me cbills, an the queenine wint TO me
LraiD., she snapped, shaking her clenched
fist at the officer.
Thirty days in the workhouse," said his
honor, ..if you can't give a $IO0 bend"
~ kin dnbhel an thribbel it," said Annie,
haughtily. "but I'll 20 down and sue
Everybody when l git OUT
Albright. Annie. - said Mr.. Pugh. cheer
fully. I'm the meantime we'li transfer
our property
THE OTHER ANNIE.
L Annie Fish followed Mrs. Foley. She is
"a woman, OF, education, and affects broad
"A" accent on all her words. Policeman
zing herself comfortable on the piazza of a
house and preparing TO sleep. She was
full of Mysteries and beer, and gave Bauer
considerable trouble getting her to the
patrol box.
.'She is a regular vag,'' said the officer
TO Judge Scott, r"and is drunk whenever
she's got the price"
Mrs Fish Indignantly denied the insinu-
alton. She is a tail, thin, female, with a
knob of red on the end of her pinched nose.
|.she addressed the court passionately.
Judge" she said, II have never asked
for mercy before, but am a creature OF
'persecu tion. The last time they ar
rested me. for sitting on a tombstone"
''She was full that time" said Bauer.
Admitted. .yengeful man" shrieked An
ME, admitted, but 1 was composing my
self before going to my home On East Cap
itoi'.street5'-.-~~-rr-s
How much did you get them" ques-
TONED his honor.
= Judge Kiniball was gracious enough
to give me only ten days. Ten days"
She repeated, in a hollow voice. ''of seven
circlcd hell In that hotbed OF iniauity,
the workhouse" Then Annie Imply rest
ed against the rail like Leah, the Forsaken.
e.''I sm afraid, madam" said his honor.
courteously, ''ten days was not long enough
to enable your to overcome your appetite.
This time it is fifteen"
Annie, who expected to get sixty, was
delighted. She Thanked the Judge pro-
fusely and joined Mrs. Foley in the CELL
Policeman Gustav Josephs, his hair cut
snapper and his mustache waxed, told
the Judge, in a thick German accent, OF
Bette Burns offense. For over two weeks
5osephs has been hunting her, because OF
the disorderiy conduct she committed on
the 18th of July. In fighting with a man
In Vans ailey. The man was caught that
| day, but Bette escapfd.
Bette pleaded guilty, and was walking
haok.A.whess ess-t,seasuagessaid he wanted to
hear how guilty the woman was.