The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-09

she was held up at the door by ser geant.
 A Fearful Protest.
 The justice" he said, twill soon be- gin his charge and no one is allowed within"
 With tears in her eyes she went to a policeman and begged that she be per- mitted to enter. Her tears finally be- came so copious he admitted her.
 Of the several hundred other women there, most consicuous was :the young lady in red.' She apparently was 25 years old and she succeeded in getting into the court room through letter from one of the lawyers. She was exceedingly handsome. a decided brunette large black eyelids and brows. and pretty pair of cupids bow lips. She was always dress ed in red. Her gown wasn't the same every day, but surely it was some shade of red and it was capped off by a neat fit- ting red hat of French pattern.
 Morsels of Testimony.
 Invariably she sat near the reporters table. and although she always smiled she never appeared to pay any attention to anything except the testimony, which she devoured with great relish. Her beauty and attractive manner finally got to be matters of comment, and when a saffrine evening journal printed pict- ure of her-sic!-her father didn't recog- nize it. but he did know the description and he warned her to keep away. She did succeed, however, in getting away from home one hour before the verdict was rendered. and when it was she was one of the first to get out of the court room and give vent to her feelings.
 The Women in Black.
 Another character was the ever-on- hand woman in black. This time she was not heavily yelled, nor did she act with a mysterious air. Who she was or where she hailed from no one knew. How she got into the courtroom was a mys- tery which only the man at the door could explain, and he declares he can't.
 "She never came through this way" he said. yesterday. She must have sneaked in through the justices cham bers."
 Another curious one in the assemblase was a fresh-looking miss of perhaps g. Most fortunately she secured the same seat in the room every day and if there was a word she missed 1t must have been because the witness or the lawyer did no tspeak loud enough. There was a tone of red in her large picture hat, too. and tt set of a pretty complexion and head of luxuriant brown hair
 A Mystery.
 That woman" said Clerk Penny, 'is a mystery. During the trial of Payne Moore and Mrs. Vermeuie, both famous, about five years ago. she was the only woman who regularly visited the court. There were a few on hand when Mrs. Fleming was tried for the murder of her mother. but they were finally barred out by Justice McMahon, and they stayed away. This woman refused, though. and she sat through every session. She had the same seat all during the trial of Mrs. Vermeule and never missed an hour of the session when Payne Moore was on trial She has attended every coroners s inquest of any consequence since then and can be seen in the crimiai brach any day a trial of consequence is on. Who she is or where she halls from no one knows. She is apparently well-to-do and speaks like a refined and educated woman, but she declines absolutely to discuss herself in any manner"
 Recorder Goff's Way.
 Recorder Golf once ordered women from his courtroom and from that time but few have ever been seen about the big criminal courts building But of late, however, the Justices have been more lenient with them, and they are increas- ing in numbers every day. Some times during the late trial there were fully eight hundred in the room, and If all those who applied for admission had been admitted the tribune would not have been half large enough to admit them.
 According to the clerks most of these women are wealthy. and while they never do anything in an endeavor to aid a pris- oner or insist they have business in court, they attend with the regularity of the lawyers who are at work En the cases in question. Never a day passes in the Tombs Police Court that several dozen are not on hand while several days before a great trial is called the police outside a certain woman can keep throughout.
 Attempt Bribery.
 One woman, who said she lived at the Hoffman House. offered a policeman $50 to take her in Tuesday.
 He didn't take 1t.
 Clerk Penny says when the William Hooper Young trial is called ne will make an effort to keep the women from the court room.
 There will be much evidence in that trial they shouldn't hear" he said. and besides this business of late dinners Is getting to be an awful thing for some married men. A well known cigar manu- facturer called me up on the telephone yesterday and requested that I keep his wife from the court room, as he had not had a hot dinner since the Molineux trial began