Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-02
HER TALE OF WOE.
MRS. NARY ENRIdHf ~ oIcTED Fer.
RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.
In JAN for sixty Days Rather Than Pay the
Costs Says Boscobel People are Against


Her
An Irish lady, 50 years of AGE. wide
ly known in the north part of Grant
and the southern part of Crawford
counties, is now serving a 60-days'
sentence in the county jail at Lancas-
ter. She was brought here from Bos-
cobel. Saturday by Officer Sam Bar
tholemew and at once took quarters
in the women's ward of Sheriff Overs
iron-ribbed hotel, where. in solitude
and tears, she will drag out the LONG
hours that go in payment of offended
Justice. Owing to the fact that the
lady is not an ordinary criminal---in
that she is rich in worldly goods; has
motherly, intelligent, and not UNI
comedy face; is possessed of dauntless
courage and determination to labor
which has not failed her once in all
the years since her husband left her
with family of tour small children
to battle with the world alone--a HER
AID reporter was sent to the Jail to
interview her as to the cause of her
incarceration.
Mrs. Mary Enright, a restaurant
keeper of the city of Boscobel, was
seated in an armed chair in the corner
OF her cell, composedly knitting red
stocking, when the reporter entered.
Extending her hand with pleasant
smile she said: II am glad tossee YOU.
The silence of the walls grows tire
some to me and you can stay as long
as you like
How did I come to get in here,
you ask?n she said as the tears gath
cred in her eyes and coursed down
her plump cheeks. "Well, il was this
way: A boy named Fred Osborn,
who was home on visit to his par
entsin Boscohel from the Reform
school at Wauhesha. differed from the
counter tables in the Sawyer-Dyer
and Observation-Disclosures drug stores
number of small articles, for which
act he was afterward sent back to
Waukesha. Young Osborn came to
my store. purchased 10-cent pack
age OF cigarettes, and not having the
money to pay for them left with me
for security four or five harmonious or
mouth-organs which tied into pa
per sack and laid away under The
counter. shortly afterward Officer
Amos lle Voc came q my store with
the boy and / gave them to him.
whereupon ! was arrested for receiv-
ing and concealing stolen property.
was brought before Justice Jacob Me-
Laughlin and fined s. and costs. or
sixty days in the county Jail. As the
costs amounted to over eighty dollars
chose imprisonment. SO here | am
After working all these years like a
slave to bring up and educate my
children here | am, locked up n Jail
After wiping away another flood of
tears with her apron. she continued
in low choked voice;
II believe haven't got long to live
Every time hear the iron Jail doors
slam and the heavy bolts creak in
thier fastenings my heart stops.
dizzy weakness with cold sweat steals
over me. Las night my heart stop
ped, felt sufTocated and thought
was dying. Dragging myself from
the bed in my agony found my shoe
and crawling to the door | pounded
with what little strength remained in
me. A lady came to me, gave me
water and | revived agan. No, |
haven't long to live Boscobel people
have harassed the life out of me since
my husband died When Pat was
dead, trouble stepped in at the door
and has remained with me. sup
pose people will never be satisfied UNI
til they have taken every cent pos
sess. | don't claim to be so good as
! could wish to be, but there is rea-
son for my not being better. When
one lives with the gang of wolves up
there he is forced to be the biggest
wolf in the heap else he cannot get on
top. | will never be able to look any
body in the face again after being in
jail and the disgrace viii rest heavily
on my children.