Show VOLUNTARILY SOUGHT THE JAIL The New York papers report a peculiar pe-culiar and pathetic case The account they give is this Tired and almost numb from cold Julia Flynn a grayhaired widow of sixty years walked wearily into the New Rochelle police headquarters at 5 oclock in the morning the other day She told Sergeant Cody that she wanted want-ed to be sent away Send me to jail she sobbed for I am penniless and without a home or friends The woman said she had not eaten anything in three days so Sergeant Cod secured a meal for her When informed that she could not be sent to jail without committing a crime she began to cry bitterly Ill go out and break in a store window win-dow she exclaimed And with this she started for the door Sergeant Cody quieted her She was arraigned before Judge Lambden to whom she told as the tears trickled down her cheeks how she had tried to secure employment as a domestic but was unable to do so on account of her ageSend me to jail judge for if you dont I will starve in the street pleaded the aged woman Judge Lambden committed her to the White Plains jail for sixty days She thanked the judge for providing a home for Tier The judge had no right in the world to commit her to jail yet his action was a real charity and no doubt it was a charitable feeling that prompted it But how sad that this grayhaired widow should have been compelled to apply for admission to the common jail to save herself from starvation Her case was urgent and admitted no delay otherwise she should never have been sent to the jail even for charitys sake a home for aged women is the proper place for her The case was a very sad and unfortunate one but it affords no moral of any kind Such cases are extremely rare and when they come to light their very rarity gives them a prominence they would not otherwise have This old womans life for some cause or other had been a failure a failure greater than most no doubt and to have to I seek refuge in jail makes it seem doubly sLd |