Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-04
DORA wooTEN SENTENCED.
Pretty Girl of Nineteen Sent to Ana
nosa for Stealing.

FFotIy 0IFl OF NIUoSc0U SSHs " S''A
mosa for Stealing.
Des Moines, April 4.-Dora Wooten,
the prettiest girl that has been hailed
into the district court for many
month, was yesterday sentenced to SIX
months Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Anamosa, by Judge Holmes.
Sentence was pronounced as result oil
the girl (for she is only 19 years old)
stealing s25 in money from the family
| of j. r. Lundy, Des Moines Union
brakeman, residing at 1917 Mulberry
street.
The story of pretty Dora Wooten is
filled with vicissitudes and altho 1T is
claimed that she has been going the
pace that kills for some months past,
this is the first time that she has ever
had to don prison garb and go to the
penitentiary. But go now she must,
leaving her 2-year-old babe in an or
phans' home at Omaha.
Dora Wooten today is a trifie over IL
years of age. pretty and neatly
dressed little body with sparkling eyes
and an appearance that attracts not by
it's holiness, but by it's beauty. Altho
young, she has passed thru most of the
experiences of the world and has seen
| life, with capital hell, as Kipling
wrote it.
| For many years Dora Wooten made
her home in Grinnell. coming from
good family. She had been carefully
| When she was but 15 years old she was
married to j. V. Wooten and some
months ago came to Des Moines to
STUDIES in marital life and experience
| She was employed for time as a
waitress at Buffers restaurant on West
Seventh street, and while serving there
became acquainted with some rather
fast companions and led gay life. Be-
ing put out from the room which she
called her home she secured apart
ments at the home of Mr.. Lundy on
Mulberry street. She had been there
but a few days when passing thru one
of the rooms one day she spied $25 in
currency lying in an envelope on the
center table. Dora was hard up and
needed the money, SO she casually
slipped the money from the envelope
to her pocket and went her way. When
the theft was discovered the family and
the police looked for pertty Dora Woo
! ten, but she was nowhere to be found,
altho later 1t developed that she had
gone to Fort Dodge from this city.
The case was put in the hands of
Loomis Smith. chief of detectives, and
knowing that Dora Wooten had for
merly resided in Omaha, he sent word
to Chief Donahue to be on the lookout
for the girl and arrest her when she
o,.,,txy lit
one, and less than a fortnight elapsed
until Chief Donahue telegraphed to
Chief Smith that the Wooten girl had
shown up there to revisit her old home,
and had been nabbed by the police.
With this information, and armed
with warrant secured from the dis
trict court for the arrest of Dora, on an
indictment returned against her for
larceny from a building, Chief Smith
went to Governor Cummins and Sc
cured a requisition on the governor of
Nebraska for the return of the girl
While in Omaha the charge was laid
|against Dora that she had relieved a
Police officer Of a $500 diamond pin,
but when the girl was searched on her
return to Des Moines no pin could be
found and the Omaha charge was not
sustained.
When arraigned before Judge Sill
vara, the girl entered plea of guilty,
and having confessed, on the homeward
journey, to Chief Smith, there was lit
tie hope for her. However. she at first
pleaded not guilty when taken before
Judge Holmes, and Hugh Brennan was
appointed to defend her. Sent back to
her cell in the county Jail the girl had
plenty of time to think over her sins
and map out a plan of action, and
Monday morning she asked to be taken
before Judge Holmes again. She then
frankly confessed her guilt and changed
her other plea.
In pronouncing sentence, sending the
girl to Anamosa for six months, Judge
Holmes commented on her beauty and
apparent intellect, and stated that 1t
was sad duty to perform, but do it he
must under the law. The court then
gave her a very lenient sentence, and
Dora left the court room satisfied.
We, the undersigned. do hereby
agree to refund the. money on So
cent bottle of Greene's Warranted
Syrup of Tar If it fails to cure your
cough or cold. We also guarantee a
25-cent bottle to prove satisfactory or
money refunded.
Henry c.. Sieg, II. Maytag,