The evening times., 1896-03-12
Nellie Went Down Again in the
Battle Against Vice.
DRUNK IN SILKS AND LACES
Sadie Rudder's- Hysterical Farewell.
Owen Smiths Condition Excited a
POliceman's rity, but the Drunken
Man at Last Was Arrested-Judge
Kimball Angered by Impudence.

of prisoners awaiting their fate, and arte
that has been decided adversely to theiI
hopes they scan IL again passing dow
the line to the cells, revolving i'm theil
minds the day marked there bringing lit.
erty once more
This morning Sadie Rudter. a defiant
colored girl who had Just received a sen
tencc of ten days for vagrancy, as she
was hustled through the dock by Baiiifi
Cole, reached up to the calendar before
Cole could stop her and tore the March
record from the placard.
II wont sees You agin," she cried. tear
ing up the paper, while the bailiff tried to
piDion her arms. Dis is de fust March 1
ebber bin in dat work'us'. and tomorrow S
NAH burf day." and Sadie retired TO the
cells. sobbDg Historically.
| THAT girls crazy" said Cole. coming
back Il little flushed with his tussle.
''She made an April fool OF you all right
said kcndlg. pointing 10 the dates OF that
month revealed on the calendar by Sadic's
vandalism.
TOO COLD FOR WIT.
1t was not part icularly merry day In
the court, most orthe customary wit being
| missing from the prisoners, who preserve
The crisp. sharp air outside flung through
the tall windows the fascinating jingle OF
| sleigh bells with the tintinna bulat tion made
famous by Poe. whose srcat evil, drink. was
possessed by several of this general ton
who stood In the dock.
The first of these was Owen Smith,
seycnty-six years of age, charged with
vagrancy. This case brought out the fact
thuf r. Hon
and bra IS buttons. Last night in the bitter
cold and cutting storm of slcet and snow,
Policeman Walsh noticed an old white
man, ncglecting al known rules of latitude
and longitude, licking along the streets in
a helpless manner, like some bird blind and
lost in a mist.
II was near the corner of Second street
and Pennsylvania avenue. Walsh approach
ed the wandercr. telling him it was bad
night for such as he to be out. 1t was poor
Owen. and he made a drunken mans prom
Use 10 go right home il the policeman would
allow him.
Il watched him. said Walsh, on the
stand today, ''and after going in several sa-
looms he staggered up against lamp-post.
Then asked him if he wanted TO 90 home.
He safti.-.Indeei. f-de,' and volunteered
to take him there.
Smith told me he lived in "A cellar on
street, and althousn'I took him 10 every
house on the block no one knew him. and
he was turned away from each one. After
this. seeing his condition was becoming
worse, carried him to the station"
A SAILORS HITCH.
Smith is an old sailor, and he gave his
lock Of his matted. unscmpt, white hair,
as he prepared to make q statement to the
judge.
What do you do?' asked the court
I'm rigger, your honor"
Why, You can't~ climb
mo, sir; but kin work on the gro und,
splicin' an doin' sech things" answered
the old salt, tying intricate knots in
dirty polka-:lo.-. handkerchief.
While he was speaking a runt of boy,
with an old, s.ircwd-,Ooking face, stepped
up TO the prisoner and slipped hand in
the old sailors great hard paw.
who is this boy?'' asked the court
Hes my son." answered Smith, say
ing the boy was fourteen, and that they
both were going TO Harrisburg, where
they had relatives
where's his moiher?''
Dead. sir. Dead these thirteen years.
Died when he was a little babby. Me and
him ave been together ever since.''
The two looked at each other. and the
father and son graspcd hands still closer.
The judge found out the boy could not |
read and write. All his life had been |
spent in ignorance. beyond the knowledge
OF ropes. braces and spars
"The idea of this child growing up in |
such a condition. said the judge. "why |
he don't even know his letters. He should |
be looked after
The fathers quick ear detected danger in |
he drift OF the courts language.
Your honor he said. shading his weak. l
blue, troubled eyes with one hand from the |
strong light flooding his face, don't sep
lrate us, for Gods sake. let me an him 70 |
IN our road. We won't trouble nobody.
I've got money to git away to Harrisburg,
where my brother lives
Every WELL" asscnted the Judge, after
ome delibcration. "but he sure you go.
dr. Walsh, see that they leave. fyOu don't,
smith, I'll put the humane officers on your
rack. Step OUT
Father and son, closer in poverty than
hey might he in wealth, trudged out, hand
n hand. looking back at the judge, as if he
lad already Unbiased the blood hounds of
he law on their track.
HER PAST RECORD.
For nine months past Nellie Fish has
rod the straight, rugged path of virtue.
IN the past she used to be an old offender,
md had almost Worn her voice out crying
not guilty" to the charges of vagrancy.
md disorderly conduct, before Judge Kim
,all. She is a white woman of education,
md had both beauty and refinement before
lrink pulled her down.
Friends of her better days came to her
elief, and, better influences prevailing, she
enounced the past, and after patient
became a different woman.
Now she comes bac. to the old life a again.
rhe appetite laying dormant in her throat
,roke loose last night, and she got beastly
trunk. winding up the nights debaucE
n the Sixth precinct station.
The officers knew of her past good con-
luct and refused to put any charge against
Ter, sending Nellie away, when she sobcred
p, with some kind words of advice> But
he devil was loose and she was too weak for
he combat
Procuring money somewhere. She bought |
/ quart bottle OF whisky and renewed the
ag. Like all drunken people. She went
o the very place she should have kept away
rom. 1t was the Central Union Mission.
where she had been regular attendant
Turing her probation.
Nellie burst in the woman's domitory
Ike a Jezebel OF fury. She apostro-
,hized them in language both vile and pro-
ane. They looked in astonishment at
heir companion, who had always welded
n influence over them because of her su-