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Show AH EXCITED WOMAN, Sue Gives a Sailor a Sound Thrashing and Then Boasts ct It, A ItCaULUl 11,11 tl.E l'VOILIST. The Vollct Onctm Look on With Optn Mouthed Astonishment at Iltr Lxcltlng htory. An excited, hot tcmpercil woman of middle ago rtliheJ Into the police elation this alternoon about 2 o'clock aud breathlessly exclaimed to Drsk Bergeant l'aul: "Well, I caught hlra and you bet I gavolt to him, too. He won't bu ablo to see for wseks. Oh, but didn't I fix him. Ills ryes aro closed In great shaiie, I fcsl better than If I had Just eaten a lood dinner. I don't think he will bother me or my Mnlly ngnln. If he does I will mutton him. I don't mian that I will hill him, but I will thrash him within un Inch of his life. Hay, 1 would Rlvo n dollar If you coulJ Juit Git a txeii at hit niuir." Mr. Paul Majbo I wouU glvo ft dollar myself, "Yes, you would glvs moro than that. The brute Is a perfect 1 Iclure of mliery." "Madam, whom do you havo reference refer-ence (to"" Inlcrrup tcda i:vs reporter iiiilously. "Whj, nn olj sailor forly years of ace, with fen er teeth than 1 have gal, who has boen leading ono of my daughters astray. Bho la only fifteen fif-teen years uf ore but linger than I am. Bho can pick up nBlngrr rowing inachluu as If It was a toy. (), ahu li n great girl, handsome, but with an iiyly ti mpcr. lam tho mother uf fifteen fif-teen children, seven girls and eight boys. I don't olton punish them, but I hauled oil and knocked her ucouplo of sound ones this morning. I tell you tbo must lulml me hereafter." Tho woman continue! to talk In this strain, with a rapidity that was almost paralyzing, until Mr. l'aul stopped her wltht "Has your daughter returned homo madam?" Well, I lust guess she has," quickly responded thu triumphant mother f;lecfu!ly. "If you had seen me luge-ng luge-ng her oil' you would not ask that quoitloti." "Dojou think she will Stay with you now 7 " Inquired Mr.I'aul further. "If she does not I'll tin her up Inn lied pest In a dark room nnd feed her with a spoon!" shrlikrd tho excited fcuile. "I am not going to Is trilled with any longer by her or tho vagabond vaga-bond that wants to make my child his ullu. Tho worthless scrub had Letter ltavo Utah If ho valura his happlucsi orincof mind." "1 think you havo state! your caio fully" said Mr. l'aul anxious to brlnj therrancetiiancnd. "I Kucsnthat I havn but that man cnn'l innrry my daughter. Good by," "Well, 1 thank mf Maker that that woman has gone," said Mr. l'aul, with n sigh of relief, "Hlio canla In here about two hours n;i with a photo-nrapti photo-nrapti of a daughter whom she VitlU had been Induced to run avay by the sailor alio referred to In such flowing terms. Bho wanted us to bring her bark. I Informed In-formed her that she had better do tho work lieraclf and from what eliu has Juateald I guess she did It." "riho came to me with the tkmo talo ol woe," said Dr. Ilalelgh, "but I could rvo that sho was a terror aud I made my escape Into ths Jallyard and turned herovir to Mr. l'aul." Bevcral police olllcers looked on with open-mouthed astonishment, wlnktd nnd nodded their heads In a wagulih insular. |
