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Show Eli imiLIMi. In Working Off Forged Cheoks on Merchants Mer-chants Who Believed In Her. SHE HAS A NAUGHTY HUSBAND Who Stood in With Her Dishonest Transactions Tran-sactions and They are Now In. the Penitentiary. Delia Martin is quite an attractive, robust piece of femininit y who is now classed.among the crimjhals. She was put on trial this morning in the district court on the charge of forgery. According Accord-ing to the prosecution Delia was the cause of a forged check for $29.50 being cashed at Kimball & Spencer's shoe house. ': Mrs. Martin is a married woman, or at all events she is alleged to have a husband who is also indicted on a similar simi-lar charge as that for which she is on trial. She is old enough to be a married woman and is just sufficiently prepossessing, or has been, to have had a half dozen men to take care of at different intervals, for the reason that she is now on the afternoon sido of life, or rather a woman who has just been to lunch. She is very fleshy, and in court she appeared ap-peared with her husband and an attorney. attor-ney. Her plump, robust liguro was encased en-cased in a neat, closely fitting black alpaca. al-paca. Underneath a broad brimmed hat to correspond with the dress, was a heavy head of hair sprinkled with gray. She was calm, self-possessed and a matter-of-fact business woman during tho examination of witnesses for the prosecution as if a realty broker were selling a piece of property for her. Martin, her husband, is a tall, old man, at about the age of 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He possesses an intelligent intelli-gent and somewhat classified expression on a long, wrinkled face. He is beardless, or at least ho has no her' suite appendages other than a short stumbled beard. His hair is somewhat in growth in advance of his whiskers. It is short, however, but about half an inch in length, and almost white. He is also indicted for forgery, but will not be tried until after his wife's case is concluded. ' Mrs. Martin is a woman who has had several names and claims to have come from St. Paul. She, according to trie charge against her, on March 10 went into Kimball & Spencer's shoe store and purchased a pair of shoes. The price was $0, and she presented a check for $29.50 in payment 'therefor. The paper was 'made - ipayable to Marsh Gratton ' and' signed by. Hugh, Smith, both of1 which names were fictitious. The clerk at the shoe house cashed the check and gave Mrs. Martin $23.50 in change. W hen the check was presented at the Zion Savings bank for payment it was found to bo fraudulent. . ..... After the, testimony was all in t-he arguments were made and the case was given to the jury. It was out live minutes min-utes and then returned with a verdict of guilty. The woman was overcome and while she was sobbing she heard the sentence pronounced which was one year in the penitentiaay. Martin is doing two years which was given him a few weeks ago. Both he and his wife were taken to the penitentiary peniten-tiary this afternoon. . ' ' |