Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-14
SISTER JUST HAD TO
 BACkSLIDE
DiSdaining Beer, Chair Breaks Lets Her Fall and Glass of Beer Hits Her M0uth-What Could She Do?

LOS ANGELES, June I3.-In de fense of Sister Annie Mckay, arrested on a charge of vagrancy, a crowd of colored Baptist people assembled in Justice Roses cOrt yesterday afteI- noon. With J. D. Hudson as alleged attorney for the woman. q burlesque was enacted.
 Hudson is a white manS who has been arrested many times by ,h5 Do lice. At one time he was convicted Uf carrying concealed weapons and served g term in jail He was al. legged to have flourished the weapYn in woman's face when she reused to buy court platter which ne was peddling.
 At another tme.he was arrested oE charge of attempting to steal 2 bracelet from Miss Horense Jones. After Hudson again felt the breeze ol freedom flaming his brows, the idea that he would make good attorney came to him. When Annie Mckay, charged with yagrancy, appeared in court. Hudson saw his opportunity Justce Rose looked at him as if he did ncs believe his own eyes.
 One of the officers testified that he had seen Miss Mckay flirting with white pren and calling them honey
 The officer further testified tha; when he arrested the sister. she was in room imbihing real beer while her companion, a white man. told heI | things which a member of the church ought not to have reCiced over.
 'Thp backslid wtuch.'' mHttersJ an other sister of the church at this in teresting bit of testimony.
 Then the officer testified that the | defendant had said the white man was her cousin and the darker mem
 bers of the assembled congregation
 turned pale.
 When Hudson began a cross-eXami nation of the officer there was s-ich
 an uproar in court that it required the efforts of three officers 1o keI order. He assumed an attitude that would have made Earl Rogers tITr green with envy and use words which | webster would have refused to be re | sponsibIe for. He told the officer he didn't know what he was talking about.
 The defendant was called to the ! stand. She arranged a soiled wrap per carefully about her, adjusted {
 battered and Tumpled straw hat or ! her head and then proceeded to eros! 1 one foot over the other.
 well. it's just dis way, said ths
 coy Annie. Desc white folks ain my beans. No, shoah deay aim Av
 shucks. jedge. ynh ain. gwine to be
 Heve dose fool niggaa cops when de! savs dzt desc white folks is strucket
 on dis gai. Dey is just friends u'
 mine dat come in to talk ovah d' I quesashuns uv de chuch.
 | Well, along comes one uy dest
 gemmen and he says to me, says he sAnnabeH' Che calls me AnnabeL
 jedge. cause he shuh says I looki | like floah; he says. sADnaben, yuf
 cum right ovah heah and got youhsel 1 down and tell me youahg opinion u' i re presene condisbun uv de United States govn'ment'
 Den I goes wid him and we set down and dere was two glasses u' beah or some udder intoxishumful fluid. Den I puts it aside rum ms | lak de debbiI was chucked out frun heaben and just as l wuz pushin' da booze away rum me, de chair wot wuz settin' on, tun1bled down, ana
 as l fell. my mouf hit de glass ant
 just at dat minute in steps de COT
 ard sees ms wifi nah mouf on d.
 glass and he says dat I has beer
 drinkin' dat booze Hones' toh good
 ness haint. iedge. and das a fac'.''
 Then Hudson began to argue, -ou
 the court shut him up by saying tha