The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-08
GIRLS HUNGER
STRIKE. IN JAIL
Pauline Williams and Au-
gusta Schast Fast for
Three Days.
THE FAMILY HELPED
Relatives Paid Fines and Today
the Two Girls Are Out
of Custody.

Two young girls, Pauline Williams
and Augusta Schast, who were commit
ted to the county Jail last Saturday
and costs on a statutory charge, had
their first real breakfast this morning
The young girls had oatmeal and ba-
con and eggs and toast this morning
and they ate their breakfast with avid
ity; but it was not in Jail that they
ate it.
While in county Jail for three days
the girls refused to eat. Saturday,
Sunday and Monday they went with
out food, refusing breakfast, dinner
and supper alike. 1t was not only
their Jail food they objected to. They
objected to being in jail. Food was
brought by relatives, but this also they
fscorned. The girls slipped only a lit
tie water, and for the rest turned their
faces to the wall, refusing to be COM
forted.
Girls Were Saucy.
Saturday morning the two girls, who
are just twenty, were brought into the
county Jail after being arrested at 1880
a. M by the police for causing dis
turbance on the street in company with
two young men. The girls were in
toxicated and when arraigned in court
at ten o'clock pleaded guilty to still
more serious charge. One was fined
SIS and costs and the other $40 and
costs but they were unable to pay
their fines and went to the county
Jail.
The behavior of the lassies in court
was shocking, and still more so when
taken to the upper floor of the county
jail and placed in the women's quar-
tiers. The turnkey Saturday afternoon
was obliged to call them to order for
the language used and advise the pair
that unless they mended their speech
he would have to lock them up in cells
and apart.
Wake Up in Jail.
The girls settled down and no fur
Their noise was heard from them. By
Sunday the hilarity was out of their
system. When they woke to find them
selves still in Jail, with no prospects
of an immediate release, they behaved
like any nice girls under those cir
cumstances; they grieved. The stuff
they had been imbibing on Saturday
might had ceased to exert it's influence
upon them, and the turnkey and sher-
if found that they had two mortally
hurt young women upon their hands.
Sunday they still refused food; Mon
day likewise. Monday afternoon sis
ter of Augusta Schast came and
brought along some dainty sandwiches
and the kind Of pickles that school
girls love (sweet pickles.. But Meth
er Pauline nor Augusta would eat. The
sister paid Augustus fine and depart
ed with her and Pauline was left alone.
She would not eat, though her friend
| her.
Late Monday afternoon the turnkey,
Captain T. P. Hansen, of the sea-going
ways and the pipe that never goes out,
found that Pauline Williams" was
not the correct name of the young
charge left behind. Like a true-heart-
ed sailor who knows that every ship
| has days of fair weather and days of
foul, he wanted to steer the little craft
alright and into sunshine.
He found out where Father" work
ed in town and looked him up. GA
Their" was Mortified to hear that his
girl was in jail. He said that he had
had letter from his wife, saying that
she had had letter from the daugh-
ter from Kenosha but giving no adj
/ dress.
The father came down to the county
Jail and a heart-breaking scene fol-
lowed. He paid the girls fine and
took her away with him.
Now Captain Hansen is hoping that
the two merry little ferry-boats will
have learned enough to stick close to
shore hereafter and avoid the dangers
of the high seas, moonlight and moon
shine and adventure.