The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-25
WANTED A PRESENT
FOR HER MOTHER
Mamie Miller Saw No Other Way OF
Getting l., and Stole.
SHE is NOW IN The STATION HOUSE
Was ArraigneG Before Alderman
Howe Yesterday on n Charge of
Larceny, and IL Was Arranged to
Allow Her to Go on Payment OF the
Costs, but the Costs We're Not
Forthcoming.-M Man Who Wanted n
IA Christmas Tree Arrested.

Mamie Miller a 15-yCar-old girl, will
spend her Christmas in tail, unless
some good Santa Claus comes down
through the big chimney at the city
hall during this morninE and unlocks
her C,il door in the police station. All
that is expected of the Jolly old fellow
is $3.50 which is the costs ut case
heard by Alderman John 7. Howe
yesterday.
If this bill is paid Mamie Miller's
stocking will be filed with Joy and she
can go home where other good little
girls ere.
BY saying other good" girls no mis-
take Is made. Mamie Millar erred, but
her good intentions ought to Grace the
one little blot of badness. All that she
is guilty Of is a desire To make her
mamma happy with . Christmas gift.
But the Mill0r family are poor.
The handwriting Peter Miller. the
father, has all he cen do to keep the
fire going in his little house in Keller
man court, South Scranton.
When last Monday came and the
stores began to he crowded in lively
earnest Mamie bcthOught herself of her
own mamma, whom she loved. There
was no money 10 buy Il token of that
love so Mamie Milar, in her girlish de-
termination, committed larceny.
STOLE HANDKERCHIEFS.
She stole I've handkerchiefs from the
wash line of Mrs. ID. NJ. Rought, n
ncighbor to the Miller's. The decd was
done wednesday night at an hour
when, Mamie thought, every other
body would be in bed.
But there were watchful eyes and
tattling tongues in the Ieighborhood of
Kellermans' court. and Mrs. Roueht
the next day was told who it was that
had stolen the handkerchiCfs.
The result was a warrant sworn out
before Alderman Howe yesterday
charging Mamie Millar with larcenv
The girl was arrested by Special Off,
Ger w. n. Cole and was taken to the
alderman's office early yesterday after
noon.
Tho neighbors We're present and AL
dernan Howe could do nothing but fix
bail in The sum Of $500 for the girls
appearance at court.
The magistrate of the Seventeenth
ware. however. knew that bail could not
be furnished, so he made an arrange
mCnt whereby if the costs Of proSecu-
tiCn were paid the charge would be
dismissed and Mamie Miller discharg-
ed
The girls mother, Mrs. Agnes Miller,
was present at the hearing. She spent
the entire afternoon in trying to bor-
row the price of the costs, but at
o'clock she informed Alderman Howe
that she had failed.
Mamie Miller. while her mother was
raising earth and petitioning heaven
for the few dollars necessary to ce-
ment the family circle at the dinner
today, waited in the aldcrman's office.
| Finally she was taken to the police
station.
\ good Santa Claus must come or
Mamie Miller will he committed to
the sinful county bastile this morning.
WANTED \ CHRISTMAS TREE.
a man from DunmGra H. also spend
ing an unhappy Christmas in the
police station. His offense was a too
eager desire to get Christmas tree
for his family circle. He went into
| Nay Aug park yesterday with an axe
and was hewing in good shape at a
! beauty of tree, one of the finest in
| the park.
Park Officer Mcnamara, who is an
| other variety of the finest. heard the