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Show WOMAN IS GIVEN $7000 FOR SEVEN HOURS IN JAIL SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 15. A thou- I sand dollars an hour for seven hours spent In Jail was tho compensation awarded award-ed Mrs Annette Ilartsell. a local milliner, mil-liner, today, bv the Jury which had heard the eldencc In the .$25,000 damace suit brought by Mrs. Hartzell against John D. Murphy, .representative of a Ch' go wholesale establishment. Mrs. Unrsell was arrested In 1900 on a complaint hv Murphy, charging her with securing a bill of goods from him under false representations. repre-sentations. She spent seven hours In Jnll. The complaint was dismissed, and Mrs. Marstell tiled suit for damages resulting re-sulting from false Imprisonment, askltg $25,000. The Jury awr.med her $7000. The fact that Mrs. HarsteU's picture appeared ap-peared In local papers with a number written across It showing Hint It came from the 'rogues' gallery." particularly J impressed the Jury and Inclined them In 1 the woman's favor. |