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Show MOTHER FAINTS AS CHILD IS SENTENCED Sensational Scene in Juvenile Court; Three Women the Actors. YOUNG WOMAN DENOUNCES JUDGE WILLIS BROWN Her Married Sister Likewise Excoriates Him, and Is Fined for Contempt. j "You , you've killed my mother,' ' vociferated Stella Steers, aged 17, shaking her fist in the face of Judge Willis Brown in tho Juvenile court yesterday forenoon. The mother had just fainted in the courtroom whon sho heard Judge Brown sentence her daughter to the Stato reform school. Tho mother didn't wait to hear Judge Brown suspend Bentenco pending tho girl's good behavior, but toppled out of her chair unceremoniously, , After the girl's profane outbreak, her married sister took up tho cudgel, and douounccd Judge Brown for his decision. The sister's namo is Mrs. Thurber. Judge Brown fined her $5 for contempt of court, and, as sho did not quiet down, ho sent post haste for a deputy sheriff to restore order in tho court. By tho time Deputy Sheriff Andy Smith arrived, ar-rived, however, she was subdued, and Judge Brown finally remitted the fine. t Tho Steers girl was one of four girls arraigned before the court on a chargo of incorrigibility, and the evidence adduced ad-duced at the trial almost resulted in the arrest of George Leo, an employee of the "Pcnnv Arcade," on a serious charge. Judge Brown exprcssod his belief be-lief in tho man's guilt, but said it was no uso having him arrested, because it was merely a case of his word against that of one of the girls. Tho four girls were Annip Johnson, aged 1G, known to her intimates as "Red-Headed Tcssio;" Edna May Jones, aged 16; Stella Steers, aged 17, and Grace Nelson, aged 16. Tho complaining com-plaining witnesses were the probation officers of tho Juvenile court. The evidence disclosed the fact that tho Steers and Nelson girls were planning plan-ning to run away from home, and that tho other girls were developing wayward way-ward tendencies. The Nelson girl swore that George Leo had told her that ho was going to open a lodging-house, lodging-house, and wanted her and her companion compan-ion to cuter it, and that he offered her $17 a week, hor clothes, a diamond ring, and 50 pert cent of her earnings if she would enter tho place. Loo took the stand and denied the girl's testimony. Judge Brown expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the girl was telling the truth, but declared it would do no good to causo the man's arrest. Tho court found that all of tho girls wore guilty of incorrigibility, but suspended sus-pended sentence ponding good behavior. It was when ho was sentencing the Steers girl that her mother fell into a fainting fit. |