The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-01
Indignant Members of the
Craft Protest 4 Housewives
Method.
JAIL FOR EX-MlSTRESS.
Justice Deaf to Miss Pader'S
Plea That Gun Was Little
and Servant Big.

| When eXasperated by the kitchen ANA
ION who denes being fired" By all YER
bal methods. and you can't get police
man. be chary of using Il gun. Miss
Pader did that same, and to-day she
was held in Yves, Side Police Court in
N,HO bail. even though she explained
that tn" gun was not turret monster,
but 92-calibre toy.
Facing her. with lowering brow. was
the boosted cuisine artist, backed by all
the lnsistent and beligerent etiquette OF
the cooks union, represented BY n
swarm Of members, whose brows also
lowered some,
Her eyes red and swollen from weep
ing in police cell. Miss Pader. who
conducts a bOardIng-house at No. 30
West Forty eighth street, was arraigned
to-day, accused OF firing a revolver In
the face OF her cook, Mrs Sadie Henry.
VINO became violent when her employer
discharged her yesterday morning.
Miss Pader is a tlmid little woman
cused of punching her buxom cook she
turned appeal'ngly 10 Magistrate Har-
ris and said.
Had | been able to do that. Your
Honor, 1t would not have been neces
sary FOR me to flee to my room and ge.
the little pistol loaded with blank cart
ridges and fire % to Brighten off this
woman, who. feared. was going to
renew her attack upon me"
Brought Trouble with Her
Miss Pader told her story Of the en-
counter, all Of which was yehemen,ly
denied by the cook
sadie had been In my employ only
a few days and there was trouble from
the moment she entered the house"
said Miss Pader II told her Yesterday
morning TO bring in some clothes that
had been left in the yard over night.
She flew into a rage and told me she
had been hired to cook, and that she
was not maid of all work and would
not do as | told her.
When ! attempted 10 enter the
t!tchen to argue with her, she seized
sugar bowl and hurled It at my head.
TFen everything in the kitchen that was
not nailed down began to fly. and her
shricks md screams and oaths were so
loud that feared my boarders would
he terrorized and would leave the house
| MI
messenger, whom | intended TO send for
policeman to remove the woman.
Il had scarcely reached my room
when heard Sadie coming up the back
steps. still shrieking and making threats
agaIns' me. | was 80 frightened that
seized little 22-calibre pistol which
had only blank cartridges in It, and. as
Sadie burst into my ROOM fired, know
ing It could not hurt her only wanted
to frighten her"
Big Cook Says She Was Beaten.
Sadie Henry then took the stand and
swore that she had been brutally treated
by Miss Pader and that the blackened
and bloodshot condition OF her eyes was
due to powder burns from the plsto,
Miss Pader discharged In her face.
That woman tried to kill me, judge "
She said and | haven't yet got over
the fright she gave me. When she told
me to DO a lot Of things yesterday that
l wasn't hired to do, | told her that she
could give me my money and / would
leave. ! resigned, right then and there.
J Judge. for | saw II was no place for a
lady to work In.
When | told her was going to ouit
she jumped into me. beat me and
punched me all over the kitchen.
never touched her. Then she ran I'D.
stairs to her room and told me TO come
and get my money. ! was going I'm.
stairs quiet, orderly like, and lust "a
any lady would. Judge, when she opened
her door and fired that pistol you have I
there. right In my face. She told Won |
that had them black eyes when | came |
to work for her. but that's a lie, Your |
Honor, for she done IT.
Magistrate Harris told Sadie Henry |
that he would postpone he case until |
ednesday, In order that she might |
bring a certificate from the Roosevelt |
Hospital to support her claim that her
eyes were injured by the discharge OF |
the pistol. VI
Meanwhile Miss Pader Is still locked
up, as she saws she knows no one who
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