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Show c::z-:lad orgies is : . . IK POLICE COURT. AGAIN Poor Mrs. Pratt Is in the Jug again and the cork la driven in bo tight this time that it will not te removed for twenty days unless Judge, Diehl pses a pardon corkscrew on it. Mrs. Pratt is a familiar police character. charac-ter. She is arretted with almost clock-like clock-like regularity on the same old charge drunkenness. There is never any variation, varia-tion, the circumstances are always the same. . .Wednesday afternoon was no excep-rule. excep-rule. Mrs. Pratt was there In her silk skirts, her fine walking hoes, her fur Jacket faultlessly attired, at-tired, save for the fact that her fine and expensive raiment was soiled and potted with the slime and filth of the gutter. She is a woman who has had every opportunity op-portunity for social distinction, had she Chosen that nath inmrt&uA nt tio nath In he be treated the same as are our other habitual offenders. Mr. Kelly. Mr. Anderson An-derson and Mr. Tom King. I would ask that he be sentenced to serve thirty days in Jail." "'You are in a position to put yourself In better shape," said the court to the weeping woman, "and I would like to be lenient with, you. I find that good treatment is useless in your case as you do not appreciate it Tou are sentenced to serve twenty days In jail. If you will go to your sister's home In Mantl, and can show me a letter from her that you have completed arrangements to live with her.'l will make an effort to secure a pardon from the Mayor for you." Mrs. Pratt, stiir weeping copiously, was ushered byt Jailer Parry out of the courtroom, over the "bridge of sighs" and Into the women's ward of the city Jail where she will remain ugtll her sentence sen-tence is served, unless the pardon comes for her. which she has traveled for years. Mrs. Pratt has an Income of hundreds of dollars. Some who may know say . that her Income from rents and Investments Invest-ments made by her deceased husband, - runs up into the thousands of dollars every year. She certainly has enough to give her all of the creature comforts that any sane person would need, yet almost al-most every month this woman faces the court on charges of drunkenness. Wedneday, when she was tried, she pleaded guilty, with tears streaming down her wrinkled face. "Please, Judge, let me go," she has begged many times before, "please let me go. I can't help getting drunk. I don't mean to do It. I Just can't help It I'm In a great deal of trouble that you don't know anything about, and I can't help getting drunk." Prosecutor David O. Wllley asked the ear of the court before sentence was passed. "If your Honor please," be said, "I would ask that a more severe sentence be given thls woman than she has been riven In the past. She wa released from Jail only a short time ago, and seems to show no desire to behave herself her-self when Bhe gets a light sentence. "The very minute she gets out of Jail l)-f begins to hunt for trouble, making it v pleasant for the policemen In every ft Jy, and making scenes on the street. Her language, when she is intoxicated, I am told, by the policemen. It not fit to be used In public I would ask that |
