Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-08
Mysterious Woman in Black Guilty But Magistrate
 Deals Kindly With Her
IS GIVEN A LECTURE
Big Crowd of Spectators Heard WO.
  Man Tell Her Story and Physi- clans Testify.

 but that you have violated the law, but 1 am forced to free you as the contractors at the county farm will not accept a white woman and you would only have to lay in the county jail If fined you. I will give you until tomorrow night to get out of town. If you are here after that 1 time l will have you rearrested and fine you heavily. Be careful of your conduct in other cities, because all people are not so kind hearted or lenient and you many get into seri- ous trouble"
 Th.s was the manner in which Magistrate J. A. Frazier disposed of the case of Miss H len Mitchell, "the ! mysterious woman in black" who was given a preliminary hearing in his court yesterday afternoon. She is the woman who visited a number Of local business and professional i'Cih e''i'i IhohlIS Idl6t TEDT0. , sentations to them secured money from several.
 She was still attired in her black dress when brought into the court room, accompanied by her attorney, $. A. Miller. She wore aNarge pie ture fats-ofs--eeblack, with a flowing plume. On her finger she wore "phony' diamond ring and her fea- [ lures gave evidence of dissipation and drink She seemed unconcerned when several physician took the wit- ness stand and testified as to her visits and pleas for financial assis- tanca, each time representing her. self as physicians wife, but in each instance giving different name than used in the office she had visited just short time previous.
 The court room was crowded with SD 4ctators, many of whom stretched their necks to get glimpse at the middle aged defendant, who had gained so much cheap notoriety dur ing the past few days. After a con- f-rence with her attorney, the Sta .e, represented by Attorney J. M. Shaw, acting in the absence of District Att torney Nixon and Deputy T. G. Par ham, announced ready and Attor- {, ney Miller also signified his willing Il ess to proceed with the hearing. Drs. A. G. Thompson, H. E. Will , Hams, J. W. John, and B. D. Luck, local physicians, and J. H. Mccain, the Main street grocer, were in court as witnesses. Drs. Thompson, Will Hams, Luck and Johns gave testi- mony, each, with he except on Of Drs. Luck and Thompson, telling of tn visits of the woman to their of fices and of sums given her, after hearing her weak tale of woe.
 Magistrate Frazier asked the wo- man whers her husband was. She said he had left her, tha. they for merly lived in Little Rock. She said her home was Tn Sheboygan, Wis., consin, and that she came here from Dallas, Texas, looking for work. She has been stopping at the Arlington Hotel She denied having secured the money fraudulently from the physicians, bu.- declared that she "just borrowed 1t and intended to pay it back.
 After Magistrate Frazier gave her orders to leave the city the woman asked for enough time to ge.. money from home. as she sad she wanted # to repay the doctors who aided her. The woman left the court room ac- -onna nied hy Attorney Miller and the crricue crowd Of nearly two hundred men followed them down Msin s.rtet