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Show tooy. The woman Appeared In, court !u her stocking feet, carrying a br.udle under her arm. a glanc? through the torn raper wrapper indicating in-dicating that it contained hose aud. ether loot-wear. . "Yon have been, lu jaii betor." said the Judge, "and you had a bearing, bear-ing, too. You are In the habit of porting drunk and making trouble for 'he police officers aot iho eountv or-Ilcials. or-Ilcials. I guess tnat the best thing to do is to give you a suspended sentence sen-tence of 20 days. Wc don't waat to tec you here again." "Twenty days floater, did you sav, Judge? Well, that is all right Thanks!" 13. BURTON IS GIVENJO DAYS "I am not guilty, Sir, I was washing wash-ing all day vesterday, and washing hard, too." said Mrs. Burton in answer an-swer tp the charge of drunkenness read to her by the clerk of tho municipal muni-cipal court this morning. The complaint uHeg-I Miat Mrs. Burton was "unlawfully drunk" yesterday yes-terday and, she pleading not guilty, the arresting officer, Mr. Cromptou, v. as called to tegtify. The officer Ftated that the woman bad been incarcerated in-carcerated in the city Jail before for ilrunkenn1?. his opinion being that the is an habitual drunkard. The woman stated that she was not drunk, having taken only a glas of boor during the day. She claimed that she was fatU.r.- because of her vvorrlment over do- ,etic troubles. Her furniture, she said, had been taken possession of by some on; while she was in jail a short time r.go and practically destroyed. She also claimed that sho bad been buf-feted buf-feted around, from the police station to the county poor farm without having hav-ing been given a hearing of ?ny kind and that her property right? had not been respected while she was la cos- |