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Show Laf f erty Has Woman Rival m Gertrude's Out for a Record .. Came to Pay Undertaker itf OLONfcX" LAFFERTY, perhaps one of the greatest col-ored col-ored police characters the city has ever known, has a rival. VfS, and hit rival it m( tin f oi.iti; nex. For y.ars it has been the custom of the "Colonel" to get "Pinched" often. He is .at this uritinr sneninir tliirlv Hjv in the clty Jail fur vagrancy. Illii rival has appeared. Gertrude , St. Clair not the dancer) la her name. I On her last appearance li lie11" I" court JUdge VV II. Wllklna asked her J why she waa in town and not -working - and she sal!.' I "Well. anh. I dun come here to bury ma mudder." after which she waa urn-j urn-j lenced to thirty daya In jail, j Thla morning when she facei Judge -r. i fs .' j - - Wllklna on a charge of vagrancy she aaid: "l dun come heah to pay de undertaker dla tlr", h " inirty daya," aaid Judge Wllklna. On h-r way to the cell alie entiled and aaid: "Ins am a funny world, hut-4 o Ion, aa Colonel, 1-affcrly am heah : too 1 ahuuld worry. Wumln dun iHke j de Joy out of life, hut aum day I dun establish a record, evrn bet tan than de I culoitel." j |