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Show Woman Gives Police a Merry Chase Alfreda Brown, Drunk. Gives the Officials Of-ficials an Exciting- Half-Hour. Half-Hour. Alfreda Prnwn, who has been in Jail bafWi Rave the poMct an exciting h, 1 f -hour yesterday mornina ;.nd attracted no little attention from a lot of pc-o-pl who were on their way to church. The Broun woman Is COlorcfl, and occasionally occa-sionally gets drunk. Yesterday her tipual peccadillos were varied by a breakaway from custodians, a lor.ft run across tho Temple Rroun Js. over nugh-borlna; nugh-borlna; fences, which the woman vaulted vault-ed llajhtly and expeditiously, and through front yards. Raising Distuibance Patrol Driver Price camo across the Brown womun In a Wost Temple street lridlng-housc. She was m.'klnx a terrific ter-rific disturbance, according to the police. po-lice. Price had his hands full aa soon U h arrostorl her. for she fousht hi rd iind It Is no easy matter to vanquivh a fighting woman. Bystanders Aid. A couple of bystanders volunteered io hold the woman while Prica. 'phoned ffir th wagon. While they Wffe dflnK It the dusky prisoner brfik :i. n fror.i thm. Mounted officer Sperry i me with the wagon and h-- and Price started to hunt tho rucltlve. Price taking tak-ing charge of the team. Sperry going afoot. Scaled Tences. ; itnl pedestrians said they had seen Miss Brown making lively time through the Temple grounds, disturbing the Sunday mrrnlng quiet with staccato stac-cato whoops. S perry, and Price separated, sepa-rated, and Price, who took the east Bide of the grounds, caught sight of his quarry leaping B board fence near the corner of North and West Temple streets. He gave Chase The woman stopped not for fences of any kind. She took them like a crone-country runner. When Price overtook her she had made her way through front and back yards and n ross alleyy for nearly a block. Taken to the Station. Bystanders held the patrol 1 1 . i - while Price managed to get the prisoner pris-oner Into the wagon. Then he had the pleasant task ff driving with one hand ami with the other fighting off his prisoner, pris-oner, w ho was trying to get the reins, and making the air hideous all the time. Drunk nn.1 disturbing the peace were the charges on which she was booked. |