The evening times., 1896-07-28
Warned to Keep Away From
the Downward Path.
YOUNG, HARD, AND DEFIANT
Policemen Charged Her With Va
grancy-The Mother and Father Ap-
peared In Court-Grief of the Old
Man-The Judges Interest in the
Case-Comic Incidents.

ulticI uttCAS4 SiAS VathAAS - -
girl Whose future and fate were temporarily
in his hands. She was Mary Green, Just
across that beautiful meridian in a maiden's
e-si xieens years -charged by Police
men Goss and R. v. Mcdaniel with being
a yagrant.
rhe court lectured her and also gave her
advice, but she remained unmoyed, hard and
cold, accepting her dismissal as victory
over the officers, and not as chance TO
redeem herself from the lie she has rs-n
leading.
She was arrested last night and placed
in charge of the station matron, coming to
court this morning in coupe with Nc
Daniel ~ -
Her slight figure was clad in Jaunty
shirt waist and plaid skirt. A blue sailor
topped Off her straight brown hair, cut
short, and shadowed pallid face with
black, burning, restless eyes and pro-
truding under lip. Her nose was masculine,
straightllnes running from the pinched nos
trils to her compressed mouth, lending
cruel, sinister cast TO the girls face.
While her case was being heard she
bit her fingers until the blood came
1t was more from anger than nervous
ness at her condition. Never once, through
a trying ordeal that barred her habits, and
which would have shamed most of her sex,
did she finch.
SHE WAS DEFIANT.
Repellant and defiant, no emotion shook
her voice, steady, metallic, scornful, or
dampened her eyes, surrounded by bisque
rings signs of weariness and unrest. She
~, otr wi
her father, who IS coach painter and her
mother a dressmaker.
She has been such a familiar figure on
tie streets or late, talking to men in hall
ways and lettering in the stage entrance
of the A cafemy of Music that Officer Goss,
to save the girl, brought her before Judge
Miller.
Gess told the court her mother had COM
I planned to tim about Mary remaining away
from home and keeping bad hours.
"she's professional street walker" said
tie officer. .and runs around at all hours,
night and day.
How does she act on the street," asked
his honor.
"She hasn'tthe air of virtue, replied Goss.
Ever see her drunk?"
No, sir: but her mother on several occa-
sions asked me 10 run her home. l told her
we were getting tired of that, and I'd have
TO arrest her If she didn't behave"
Mrs. Green, faded likeness of her daugh-
ter. speaking quickly and sharply, deniedher
taugn,er nnd oao napIts. sne, too, laid she
was not addicted to the use of liquor. She
admitted sine did not know where the girl
kept herself at night.
THE JUDGES THREAT.
"If you can't regulate the habits OF
this girl,'' said his honor, cnrtly, I'm take
her away from YOU"
What the officer says is not so,' Mrs.
Green retcrted. II can't tell every place
the child goes
Its about time you were knowing,
madam said the judge. severely, and ask
ing If Mary went with men.
'sshe goes with a man by the name OF
Frank sturgis. who works at the Acad-
envy"
Hes married man, your honor" in.
terjected Goss.
Hes not" cried the mother, flaring up
Hes divorced. Mary meets him on Cor.
ners because 1 won't let him come to the
house,
Have TOT, diiiiyts more children, madam
asked the judge. :.
Mrs. Green said she had a daughter in
New York, ''tbirty-one years of age and
married" she snapped.
"Call the father up here said his hon LOT
Green, a white-moustached, bald-hcaded
man, hobbled to the stand on crutches
He was the only 'one of the three who
showed any feeling in the unfortunate at
fair.
"Green,'' said Judge Miller, "did you
ever make IL your business to follow this
girl and see where she goes?''
Green, shaking his head sadly, said no.
"But, Judge, she certainly can do nc
wrong" he pleaded.
'Slie has no clothes except what 1 give
Ter, and would she go almost barefootet
| until could buy her shoes If she is what
the. officers says"
"Have you ever talked to her about hel
waywardness?" kindly inquired his honor
TOLD HER TO DO RIGHT.
eyes and choked little as he said: "Evel
since she's been little gal I've told hel
to do right. This man Sturgis, who ha:
| wife and children, comes around ant
| whistles for her. I've threatened to shoe
| him if he don't keep away"
THAT won't do," broke in his honor,
| 'that won't do at all, this shooting"
| ~ only wanted to scare him. explained
| Green. apolog etically.
"Call policeman advised his honor
Hell attend to his business. Your cor
rection is not with sturgis; it's with this
child, and you want to commence on heI
right now. If your wife doesn't know
/ where she is at night she's not fit to have
| her."
Goss. recalled, said sturgis monopolized
Mary's time. "she went the other day.
said Goss, Ito q house on Four and-a- hall
street with countryinan, who gave hel
$50 to buy dress.
The veins in the girls temple stood ou
/ like whip cords, and she paled and blushet
4 In almost uncomfortable rage at this re
mark. II didn't go there!"' she said
| fiercely. "T went to Franks room, O,
ennsylyan nia avenue.,i
who's Frank?" said the court.
"Mr. sturgis,' she replied.
1 Where does he live, and what were yol
doing in his room?"
4 She said she went there to straighteI
1t.