The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-21
SAYS HUSBANDS ARE
NOT DIVORCE CAUSE
Cosby Woman Is Real Evil
-Mother-in-law Is
Maligned.

NEW YORK, Nov. o1.-Systematic
begging along any prominent city
street, with the aid of any of the pro-
fessional wiles, will net IS TO s. day
without difficulty, according to a wo-
man mendicant now held for trial in
the Raymond street Jail, Brooklyn. Her
case has attracted the attention Of the
charity authorities because of the cir
cumstances under which she alleges
she was forced to go into the streets
and beg.
! The woman is Isabelle Locke. thir-
tv wears old, of family once promi-
nena in Baltimore. Her face is paid
with years of toll. but her deep brown
/ ewes bespeak truthfulness and her
manner and expression show traces CT
inherent refinement. Her left hand,
; contorted with paralysis hangs limp
at her side, an donly part of the
! palm, large enough to hold a few pen
MES, is visible. Her entire left side,
in fact, IS paralyzed.
John Godfrey, mendicant agent of
! the Brooklyn bureau of charity, saw
the woman begging in Flushing ave
nue. He watched her going from sa-
loon to saloon. He followed her for
an hour and saw short, heavy-set
German approach her and take all the
money from her. Then he saw her
take up her station on street corner
while the German took a stand half a
I~
every second. Godfrey tclephoned to
police headquarters, and both the wo-
i man and man We're arrested. The
i man said he was Robert \. Schubert,
and gave the same address as the wo-
man, 269 Adams street. but denied
that she was his wife. They were
locked up charged with mendicancy.
Just before being arraigned before
Magistrate Harris in the Adams street
court, probation officer Anna I. Con-
nelly called the woman into her pri-
vate office, and after hearing her story
advised her to make a charge of as
sault and battery against Schubert.
She did so when arraigned and Magis-
trate Harris held the man in $1,000
bail. The woman was held in smaller
bail.
When the two prisoners were sent
back to their cells Schubert, according
to Miss Connolly, threatened the wo-
man with whom he had lived as his
wife, saying that he would get her"
when he got out. The frail woman
begged Miss Connolly to protect her,
and when the prisoners we're taken to
the Raymond street Jail they were
placed as far apart as possible.
II was born in Baltimore" said the
woman. my mother died when l was
very young and then when l was three
my left side was paralyzed. My faith
err placed me in home and the family
scattered. My father and two broth
ers are now living in New York. but
haven't seen or heard from them for
many years. They are prosperous l
think.
When grew up to be a young wo-
man left the home and went out as
a servant for some time, but my
paralyzed hand and foot interfered
and life was miserable for me. l
drifted to New York and then | met
that man. That was five years ago
He has had me under his influence
ever since. When he looks at me l
get so frightened that just do any.
thing he says. I have been his slave
Often I have stood with my face
against the wall thinking every mo-
ment that my end had come
He made me beg. l had never
done sucn a thing before. He kept a
. note book with streets marked in it
We worked Hoboken, Newark, Jersey
City, Manhattan and Brooklyn. A
, route for the day was always mapped
out ahead. We had planned to save
the department stores along Fulton
) street for the holidays.
I'm Broadway and Amsterdam ave
nue. could easily make SO a day Dur
, ing the holidays it was better thar
that. I only had to show my crippled
: hand and the people would drop theil
money into it,"