Show A case of west virginia chivalry A case rece gily came up in the c ourt court of mayor fry of of this city which has developed in info ao 40 a queer sensation and shows what sacrifices people will sometimes make either from emotional or chivalric causes under toe local ordinances when a flue fine is imposed upon an offender U i the cash to not forthcoming the delinquent is put on the chain gang to work out the same at cleaning the streets at the rate of 1 1 per day yesterday a frail crea creature tupe named lillie stanley was convicted of keeping a disorderly house bouse and fined 20 which with the costs made her liable for 25 she was unable to pay and appealed to the ma yorito allow her to pay a it in 9 blown installments ants offering to pay 8 down the mayor said he be was not authorized to accede to her request and remarked halt half jocularly that if she could find some one to either make up the money or work seventeen days on the gauggle gang be would accept the 8 otherwise she would have to work out her time there Ther ewas was no immediate response but finally a stalwart young f fellow allow in the crowd of loungers said that he be would never permit a bomani wo manit it mattered not how bow low and degraded she was to be worked as a convict upon the pub public ic streets he had not the mon money e to pay her fine but he said he bad t the lewill will and the muscle to als discharge it consequently he be would offer himself as a vicarious vic a r I 1 0 us on substitute betit Q t a after the natural astonishment had bad subsided he was formally accepted in place of the convicted female and is now serving out her fine he declined to give his name and said that I 1 john smith would do as we well 11 as anything else he sato said that tat he be to is a farm laborer from some place up the river and that he never saw or beard of the woman 1 in his life until he be saw her in the mayors court but that his bis sense of manhood and his bis respect for womankind would not permit him to see one of the sex scraping the public streets in company P a ny with tramps and bummers charleston W ava va special |