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Show NO MERCY SHOWN TO OLD OFFENDER Tillie Williams who was recently released re-leased from the penitentiary after having hav-ing served a term 'for robbing a Chinaman China-man of several hundred dollars, was one of the prisoners who faced Judge Diehl in the Police court Thursday afternoon. af-ternoon. The woman had been arrested on a charge of being drunk, and of using us-ing abusive language to Patrolman George Moore, who arrested her. The woman pleaded guilty to both charges and threw herself on the mercy of the court. But Justice was not tempered tem-pered with mercy in this instance. Judge Diehl said that his attention had been called to the prisoner because of the depravity and degeneracy which she gave evidence of. and that he could not find any reason for making her sentence sen-tence a light one. He then fined her $5 on the charge of being drunk, and $25 on the charge of using abusive language. |