Arizona republican., 1900-09-28
A FE MALE DEBDBEAT
Who Travels Upon Sympathy Obtain
 cd by Misrepresentation.

A day or two ago a woman with four
 small children came to town from somewhere and started a luXuriant
 growth of sympathy in the breast of
 Marshall Hooker. She said she was on
 her way to Maricopa to see brother.
 and that for twenty-four hours she
 and her little ones had had nothing to
 eat The marshal took the furnishing
 family to a restaurant and told the pro-
 prietor to till'them up. at his expense.
 The pie counter looked like the town of
 Galveston when they had finished.
 Then the woman went to see Superin-
 tenGant Porter of the Nj. & r. about
 free transportation to MaricOpa. She
 told the superintendent that she had no money. The name of her brother
 who lived at Maricopa. she said. was
 Wood. Mir. Porter thought he knew
 everybody within the jurisdiction of
 Maricopa, but he didn't know Mir.
 Wood. The woman said that Wood
 lived on farm about five miles from
 the junction. Mr. Porter knew that
 there was no farm within twenty miles
 of Maricopa. He telegraphei 10 the agent there and after an exhaustive in quiry reply came that there was no body of that name in that vicinity.
 MT. Porter is not a suspicious person
 and as the woman seemed mixed as to
 her wanderinSs he got a map and she
 figured out upon it a roundabout route
 by which she had heached a place in
 Northern California. It was there that she learned that her brother was at
 Maricopa. Mir Porter asked her is she had not misunderstood the name of the place: if it was not Marposa. Cal. She feared it was and Mr. Porter was
 going to take steps to find out if d man by the name of Wood was living near Maripcsa. The woman went away and did n,t return. She was next heard of wijh her suffering brood at Tempe. She told the city marshal
 that she was pennilsss and was on her way to Tucson to visit brother whom she had not seen since childhood. She was penniless and hungry. The mar shall became interested in her woe and
 assessed all his acqudin.ances for about $l5. The woman took the train that night for Maricopa. She was no began there. Du1 a commanding and Overbearing person. The east bound train was late and would not reach MdricCpa until morning. She de- manded a bed and said the Southern Pacific company would have to fur nish it. The agent replied thal the company was not in the lodging busi- n5ss. The woman said that she was not in the railroad business and Was not responsible for the train's delay. Neither was she going to be put to any inconvenience on account of it. The agent replied that he knew of no one connected with the Southern Pacific system who was authorized to Day for lodging for passengers. AIr. Hunt ington might have done so. but he was unfortunately. dead, and his successor had not been chosen. He added en- rouragingly that if the woman would sit around there and make herself as comfortable Is possible for a few months. say until the next meeting of the directors. somebody would be elect ed and might telegraph him instruc- tions to pay her hotel bill. That was the best he could do. and he was sorry but he could not exceed his instructions without running a risk of losing his job. He hated to do that for in the went of the election of Mr. Bryan h. might nc- be able to get another one.