The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-10
HEARD AND SEEN
IN TINIMONY'S COURT

i The trial Of Mrs. Emma Jackson for
using abusive language towards Ella
Phelps last Sunday morning was the
feature of yesterdays proceedings on
! the police court stage. During the hear
ing Timmony and Twomey, the latter
representing the defense, shook hands
and threw professional bOuqets at each
other until the spectators were led to
! believe there never had been q city
! election.
First Of all. Mrs Jackson pleaded not
/ guilty. Then Mrs. Phelps related her
/ thrilling story. She said that her chill
dTen, Jamesy and Washington, were
/ playing fcemen on a pond near Jack
( sons yard. OF a sudden Mrs. Jackson
/ appeared and made things rOughish,
when Jamesy was called in by hil
mama for having wet feet. Mrs. Jack
son told the witness the boys were
/ noisy, to which witness replied that
any time Jamesy broke a window or
/ busted the lock off the coal house he
! would be smacked sOundly on the sus
/ penders for it by mama. Further. Mrs.
/ Jackson was TO leave her hands on
/ Jamesy.
Den. what yO' fink she done?" de-
I manded Mrs. Phelps. Why, yo' Onah,
she tuhned on me like a elephant an
called me, unTespec' fully, hank'a-
/ chier-hsaded niggah, q COW, a dirty,
low cow an a disgrace to Franklin
/ avenue OATS what she said at de be-
/ ginning of her speech. All didn't mind
| de 'niggah' as bad as the cow but
/ OATS what she said
And what did you say?" asked
Diehl
All said she wah a lady an all
would fight. Den her daUgtah
/ comes in an repeats dem words about
| de COW. HOP on, says I, 'ah saved 20
mOthah frum KILN yO' once when she
/ had dat SPELL an Steptoe. OATS all
right to shake yo' haids, but Use got
I WITNESSES to Gle truf Of dis, continued
/ the lady, making a sweeping gesture
| towards the cOnvulsed audience from
/ Franklin avenue Amt I? Amt 1?
Anil show yo'."
/ Echoes of DOOley, we're not trying
/ that matter" put in Diehl. Where
was Mrs. Mason when this trouble Oc-
CURED"
The witness came back to earth.
''She went in" was the answer, "be-
/ fO' Mrs. Jackson stahted on huh mad
! careah.''
Roscoe Jamesy Phelps was then sum
mOned and cOrrobOrated mama He
said Mrs. Jackson called her a black
+ haired niger, a liar and a cow" while
/ mama sat near the WlIIlSSS anu lUlu
/ him to speak up, darling"
/ Clifford Day, an ideal 9-year-Old
model for Kemble, was quite positive
! the words used were: You are dis
/ turber Of Franklin avenue street" and
/ you are a cow" and that Mrs. Phelps
reply was: You are a. lady
/ The defense opened OstentatiOusly
with Mrs. Jackson on the stand. Ac-
/ cording to her story, the youth Of the
/ boulevard were quarreling as to who
! should be the ice man, thereby keeping
] her rOomegs awake. She had warned
I the boys repeatedly to make less noise.
/ She and Mrs. Mason were talking about
/ the weather when Mrs. Phelps appeared
and told Jamesy to yell like a Co
manche chief, if he so elected, but to
I keep off Phelps doorstep. Witness
( teld Mrs. Phelps she meant no OffenSe,
and Mrs. Phelps accepted the apology
] as follows: You're a liar" The re-
tort was: $50 are you" Witness did
not call her a COW or anybody else.
Mrs Mason testified that Mrs. Phelps
1 expressed herself TO the effect that if
anybody at any time called her a, COW
( She proposed to ascertain whether or
not she walks on four legs, or how
many. She would get a warrant.
/ Beulah Jackson said Mrs. Phelps had
( advised her to get away if she didn't
want mama to put her head on d block
with a carving knife and Mamie Gar
ner and some four dozen others from
the classic precincts spoke along the
/ same lines
Much ado about nothing" said the
court Defendants discharged. Join a
Bible class"
A couple of dg'unks-Tom King from
! PARKS Ceety,'' and John O'D0nnell-