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Show MOTHER OE A LARGE FflW PLACED UNDER ARREST An unusually pathetic case, in which a woman with four children was convicted on a charge of drunkenness, drunk-enness, came before Judge William H. Roeder in tho Municipal court this morning. The woman said her name was Lizzie Wottcn and pleaded not guilty to'the charge against her. The arresting officer, Patrolman T. Henry Blackburn, was called to testify for the city. Ho stated that a complaint naa ueen sent into police headquarters headquar-ters yesterday from a residence In the eastern part of the city, to the effect that a woman peddler of laces had threatened tho woman o the liouse with violence because of her refusal to purchase some of her wares. He went out to Investigate the affair, but by the time he arrived ar-rived at tho house the peddler had gone. Later in the day he saw a woman, answering the description, In the MIsch drug store. She was huddled hud-dled up in a chair by the stove and the proprietor, thinking that she was sick, asked two physicians who were in the store to ascertain what was tho matter. The physicians made an examination and pronounced the woman wo-man drunk. The officer then placed her under arrest and sent in a call for the auto patrol. While they were waiting for the patrol, the woman fought and swore. On the stand, Mrs. Wotten did not deny the statement' as to how she acted after she was under arrest, but 'spent most of the time asking the Judgo to forgive her and promising him that she would not get drunk again. She said that she had four children, the youngest of whom wa3 four years old, and that she was a good mother to them and had worked hard for their support. She said also that herhusband was a horsetrader and that his business was pretty "slack." In passing sentence, Judge Reeder informed her that no mother was a good mother who would get drunk and swear. It was not the policy of the court, however, to keep a mother and her children apart, unless such action was forced upon them for the welfare of the children. In the present pres-ent instance, he said, he would sentence sen-tence her to six months in jail and suspend sentence on good behavior. This sentence was recorded. |