Year: 1869

From the kankakee Gazette


Everybody in Kankakee knows
Mollic. To those Of our readers who
are SO unfortunately circumstanced
as TO be compelled to live away from
Kankakcc, we will say that Mollie
had no other name. She never had
a father or mother, nor brother or
sister that anybody ever knew of-
She never had a home outside the
county Jail. She was brought
here in 1861 from New York. She
never knew what q school was; she
never heard sermon; she was never
S,nside of a church; she never
heard of q Sunday school; she never
heard kind word spoken; she never
was sober moment when she could
get whisky, and she always could
get whisky when she could get out
of Jail; and she was always out of Jail
when she made so much disturbance
that the jailer could not keep hor in,
and she was always in Jail when she
made so much disturbance out that
she could not be endured. She was
a republican by profession, and
democrat by instinct. She swore the
most terrible oaths with greater vo-
lubility than could bc done by any
person who lived outside of Chicago.
She talked the vilcst, and sang the
worst songs, she was filthy as the
lowest. and slept out-doors more
nights, and indoors fewer nights
than any other being who ever lived.
When it ralned the fastest and froze
the deepest, Nellie would get the
drunkcst, and was then the happiest.
She would have been an excellent
subject for tho State Social Science
convention to have operated the SO.
cial evil out of her, for she had q
great deal of it. The police feared
her; the police court detested her; the
common council made ungallant re,
marks when they audited bills mark
cd diet for Molic in County JAIL
and these bills they audited at every
meeting;and the jailor was known on
several occasions to make the use Of
= downright profane language when
he saw the police and the irrepressi-
BILE Mollie marching, arm in arm, up
to the door. What she lived for no
body knew. That she would not
die everybody knew.


so wicked, 80 young,so mouldering away
Like 'hs iis degg, ddag IN the story each deg has
That death in its ravages was passing her


DER,


supposing, no doubt, he had killed her


before.'


But he had not and Mollie still
lived q wonderful instance oftho per-
verseness of woman refusing to do
that which everybody thought she
ought to do-die.


Mollie was not the only wicked
person in this city. There was a
"Jim," an aboriginal of Momence, of
whom but little is known here; but,
unless nature lied in Jim's face, head
and general make up, he was worse,
wickeder and lower than Mollic. He
made the acquaintance Of Mollie in
jail, while confined on charge Of
stealing nine drinks of whisky from
an alderman in Momencc. That they
courted is true; whether they loved or
r not is not known. She begged to be
released from Jail, and promised to
marry and emigratc to Cheyenne
The common council voted Mollie a
new dress, and the happy couple $50
to pay their fare on their matrimoni,
al trip.


They repaired to the Office of the
police court. The police magistrate
has an original way of doing things
They said they wished to be married
The magistrate, with uplifted hand
said:


Jim, you do agree to take Mollic
and live with her, and go to Chey'
cnne with her, and stay with her re-
gardless of law and consequences
tYes.'


'Mollic, you do agree to take Jim
and live with him, and 60 to Chey-
enne with him, and stay with him, re
gardless of law and consequences ?
Yes.


Then give you these two railroad
tickets, and order you to stay ther'
until the vigilance committee dotl
hang you both. Amen


And Mollie and Jim took their de
parture."