The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-06-08
DEM0NIAGAL
WOMAN
CREATES AN UNEARTHLY DIS
TURBANcE ON CROWDED BUS
MESS STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT.
vERNA JONES BUcKED WHEN TWO
POLICEMEN TRIED TO TAKE
HER TO JAIL.
Sweet vena" Jones Again Comes in
for Her Share Of NotOriety.-TwO
Cases Before Mayor Grille in Pc
lice Court Monday Morning.

UushuwaaaiOli! waw, sssfgh, sssfgh,
ehueh, ehuch!' "Svear to God Mr..
Mayor, II never do it again. 'wsn't
drunk no how"
Look here, verna; the police depart
ment of this municipality IS getting
mighty tired of your continuous esea-
pades. Why can't you be-
Listen here! If you let me go this
time. Mr.. Mayor, III clear out of town
an III never come back agin. A'llswear
to God l WON'T and Sweet" yerna
Jones broke down and sobbed violent
sobs Of mingled humiliation and repent
ancc.
awhere viii you gos" queried the
mayor.
can 60 all right" sniff, sniff. AN
90 to Pitchburg or Parkersburg er any
place. An get out Of town all right"
"Vema,' the accents from the direc-
tion of the mayOrality chair were clear
and distinct, .'that expression has been
heard around here 50 often that it has
become stereotyped upon the brains of
all of the city officials. You know in
your little heart that you viii not get
out of town. I'm afraid I win have TO
place You back in Jail again"
@snifr, sniff"
your fine this morning Is ten dol
lars"
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The crying stunt resembled a Van
Dyke-& Eaton East-Llynn passion play.
Can you pay your fine, verna''
NO. ali can't pay my fine, verm,"
came the amiable retort.
Officer said the mayor, at the same
time handing a blue-coated policeman a
commitment paper; which he had been
filing out between sobs, take her over
The cop beckoned to verna. The cb-
ony-hued damsel gathered herself to-
gether. picked up her umbrella, adjust
ed her pancake straw bonnet, and sal
lied forth behind the officer with don't
care-a-damn smile upon her countenancc.
verna created more sensation to the
square inch on central Main street Sat
urday evening about 1890 o'clock than
cage of half-starved lions in Hahe-
noeck's menagerie.
Officers Lawman and Shakelford spied
her in company with white man out
on Fifth street. When the two saw the
officers coming they took out for the tall
timber. The cops lost no time in fol-
lowing them on the run, and in short
time verna was being escorted between
the two blue-eoated officers towards the
city lookup. When Vcrna arrived in
front Of the Boughner corner block, a
sudden demoniacal passion because
aroused in her bosom. She commenced
to resist the officers. She screamed, and
tussIed. but the officers grabbed her arms
the tighter and kept her on the road
to the city storage house, But Vena
wasn't going to stand for an arrest at
that stage Of the game and she bucked
She screamed and scrccchei, tussled and
kicked. yelled and, as a bystander af,
terwarris remarked, raised he'll gener.
ally BY this time a crowd Of over 200
people had been attracted to the scene
bv verua's violent executions. Verna
kicked and wriggled, screamed and yell
ed. jumped and danced, squalled and cried.
The officers had their hands full. So
violent had the woman become that she
Jumped several feet above the sidewalk
and kicked her heels clear over the taller
polieeman's head. BY the time the crowd
had arrived in front of Camden SOM
mer's City book store, Vema bucked.
The toughest wild western broncho colt
couldn't hold candle to her. She flop
ned down on the sidewalk and lay as
one dead. The policemen didn't know
what to do. They pulled the heap of
humanity over the sidewalk. verna
rolled over, face to the sidewalk, and
Inc policemen acted as If they might
drag her towards the city lookup.
Just then things took sudden turn.
Mayor Grille had been aroused from his
peaceful slumbcrs by the racket and Gp-
reared on the scene. When the police
men saw him they stopped. The mayor
realized the state of affairs, but saw that
the two policemen couldn't handle the
woman. He dcputized bystanders to as
sist the coppeB. The bystanders came
10 the rescue and assisted the officers
10 carry the woman bodily to jail, where
she was placed behind the bars.
Another member OF the AfrO-American
race shambIed up before the mayor.