The evening times., 1896-07-31
BECKY SMITH IS 4 lady
So She Says, and Emphasizes
It With Strong Words.
QUOTED POETRY TO JUDGE
Her Plea for Mercy Was Regarded
and She Got a Light Sentence The
Russell Brothers Black Face spe-
ciaify-Policeman McDonnell's Ex-
PLANTATION Upset the Courts Gravity.

After hislong day yesterday Judge Miller
refreshed himself this morning with beauty
sleep, and it was thirty minutes past the
usual hour when Balliff Cole raped for
order and '.oyezed', at the crowed OF spec
tators.
Lawyer John Moss, exhausted from
discussion on the financial question with
mother attorney, had fallen sound asleep
in chair. his broad white sombrero tilted
over his brow and his spine In state OF
curvature.
Cole yelled Hats OFF, and Hats off,,
but Moss slumbered on.
"Come, come, Mr.. Moss,'' whispered
Cole in the lawyers car, courts in ses-
sion.''
Moss sprang TO his feet, bewiIdered, jerk
ing his hat Off He asked in dazed way
how Cole was, If he had enjoyed his break
fast, and expressed a fervent wish that
all his family were well.
wINKED THE OTHER EYE.
Cole, puzzled, didn't know whether Moss
was in earnest or not; as for the latter,
he winked at the reporters and took him
self off TO his office, where a woman and
six children awaited his coming To defend
the husband and father for fighting in q
barrel house.
JohD changed his hat, came back In court,
followed by the seven, weeping loudly, and
ranged them up against the rail by the
defendant
Drawing lurid picture of the misery and
distress which would follow the prisoners
conviction, and winding up with quotations
from "Over the Hills to the Poor House."
Moss secured Judge Miller's sympathy and
an acquittal.
There was more ..poethree." as Mike
Flynn said, when Becky Smith was ar
raigDed. In that journal OF misery and
crime at the police court-the record of con-
vi ctioDs-no name appears SO often as
Becky's. Size is such an habitue OF the
workhouse, the attendants there feel lonely
when Becky's absent, which is seldom.
Before she was tried, KeDdig. on his
vacation, strolled back to the cells, aud
looked the inmates over, and Becky re-
lated her troubles to him. Her under lip,
from constant exercise with bottles and
snuff dipping, hangs down, revealing q
broken row of blackened snags, rendering
her uttersnces thick and muffled.
She skewered her tousled gray hair in
knot on top of her head, and said: mister
Kendigses, the whole whurld is an oping
book TO you, an want your opinun bout
the way I'm treated"
KENDIG's ADVICE.
''Rebecca,'' replied Kendig, austerely.
'.if you'd stop iquida ting / would not be
panied by seeing you.''
"Likw edatin'," said Rebecca, who Is
no fool, why, man, If they urrested all
the winning who hit their tod like do.
you'd see some millernairs' relatives In
COURT
.sh, sh,' said Kendig, Mortified, they
don't get drunk like you."
Don't they?" leered Becky, lifting her
cracked voice in howl of denunciation;
don't they, my laddie buck?" She
shook her finger at the bailiff.
Didn't 1 stand outside one of their
houses last winter, a recepshIng a-goin'
on, an see 'em come out In their furs
and satiugs, an me In caliker a-sIiverin'
an freezin? An what did l see?" she ex'
claimed, clenching her hand until her nails
were in the flesh, "a lady bird staggerin,
round like a top, holdin' up her dress, and
hiccupin' worser than i ever DONE"
'You don't mean to say she was drunk?''
asked heuulS, dldrfHeU uy Dtcky'S COIu-
munistic attack on the aristocracy.
-oh, no. Mr.. Kendigses.'' she chuckled.
"she wasn't drunk, she was Just dizzy
from the heat-nit, as my old frien' Josie
Quill says"
"Rebecca," said Kendig. preparing to
leave. II can see your end. You'll be-
come an anarchist aud blow yourself up
with a bomb"
what kind OF people air they!" asked
Becky, suspiciously.
"They believe in dividing all the money
In the world" explained Keudig, "among
themselves, and after they spend it
dividing 1t again"
"whoop lal" cried Beck. "Then I'm one
OF EN- I'm a annykist, you bet" and
she kept up her shouting until her name
was called.
THE JUDGES QUESTIONS.
funny dialogue ensued between Police
man Mcdonnell and the court in the case of