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Show BABY CARESSES ERRMGJiOTHER SALT LAKE, Aug. 3. A modern Solomon sat in Judgmont In pathetic caso in police court thta morning when a story of more than ordinary pathos wat told by tho witnesses wit-nesses in the case of the city against Mrs Tony Flhnano of 53 Jeremy street, charged with drunkenness, was tried Mrs Filmnuo was arrested by Patrolman Pa-trolman Richard Beynon shortly after 9 o clock last night In a helplessly intoxicated in-toxicated condition. Clinging to the prostrate woman's skirts was a little girl, 19 months old. who cried pitc-ously pitc-ously for her mother The baby, a sweet faced, bright ejod child, unusually un-usually apt and intelligent, wa6 grimy and dirty, its ragged garments clinging cling-ing limply to the pathetically thin little lit-tle (igure. Tho woman whose weakness for drink had led hor to the gutter was taken in tho motor patrol to police headquarters, while the child was carried tenderly Into the matron's loom nt tho city Jail, where Matron Zilla G If ford bathed and dressed the little one and after feeding her, put her to hod in a clean white cot. When the case was called In po lice court this morning Mrs. Flmano begged that Judgo Bowman bo lonlent with her. She said that she would nover get drunk again. She pleaded tearfully that she be not sent to Jail and taken from her children. Judgo Bowman looked sternly at the woman, who held the slip of a baby In her arms, and his face hardened. hard-ened. He delivered a stinging re-buko re-buko to tho woman, and then sen- ivwcu iiur iu surve biiy nays ill mo city Jail Ho declared " that her bo havlor made It plain to tho court that she was unfit to have the custody of the children and ordered that they bo turned over to the Juvenllf court, which would provide a decent home lot- them. Mrs Fllmano is tho mothor of two children bj her present husband. The baby Is 19 months old and tho eldest ono Is 6 years old She has been before the Juvenile court on a charge of being an Improper person to have the rearing of a family, and her case was continued by that court six months ago. As soon as Mrs. Fllmano completes her sentence she will bo taken before tho Juvenile court again to" show cause why the children should not he taken from her. There was a pathetic scone In the office of Matron Glfford when Mrs. Fllmano, then thoroughly sober, sob bed and clung to the baby, who, in turn, touched her face with Its little pink hands and sobbed m response. Tho baby threw Its arms around Its mother's neck and lay her chees against the mother's tear stained face and cried. Mrs Anna Young, matron of the Juvenile court, took charge of the haby and will care for it and the larger child until permanent disposition disposi-tion Is made of the case. The police say that tho conditions in which the Filmanq family live are of a most sordid character and that It Is one of the most doplorable coses that has cbme to their attention for many months. -oo Don't think that piles can't be cured. Thousands of ohstinato cases havo been cured by Doan's OIntmenL 50 cents at any drug store. rui |