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Show QUARREL AIRED IN CITY COURT Mrs. Maude Cashmore Given I Five Days' Suspended Sentence for Battery Following a display of verbal pyro-teehnles pyro-teehnles growing OUl of B neighborhood neighbor-hood quarrel over egs Mrs Mainiu Cashmore, accused by Mrs. Martha Millar of battery, was found guilty and was given a five days suspended sentence sen-tence bj Judge D. R. Roberts In the city court this morning. Mrs. Cashmore Is alleged to have remarked to Kdna YVlnslow, Ik r ulster, "Some one has been stealing my eggs." Testimony indicated that Mrs. Miller who occupies the. same house as Mrs CSshmore came Qro.m the house audi said her son h.ad not touched an egg. Mrs. Cashmore claimed she had no charges against any one In particular. while Mrs Miller claims thai the accusation ac-cusation was directed towards hor son. STAGE A BATTLE Words followed and Mrs. Miller Is alleged to have called .Mrt. Cashmore; vile names. The words led to blows and Mra Milkr was knocked to thai ground, while Mrs, Cashmore suffered assorted scratches, and the loss of a portion of her wearing apparel. Mrs. Miller was left unconscious. I She charges that her treatment at th I hands of Mrs. Cashmore was rcspon- Islble for this condition, while the other alleged that Mrs, Miller merely fainted faint-ed following the fracas. I Judge Roberts stated that while there seemed to have been consider- lablc provocation on both sides, the ,i : i ir could easily have been avoided Mrs, Cashmore while the complaint was read, said "I illiln't Uo that." A ph a of not gulltv was entered and Judge Roberts started telling the worn, wo-rn, in ber rights regarding consulting an sttornev Scowling at the Judge she said. "No attorney about It. If you I want to stick me In Jail ko ahead." INS IM S ON I 111 , j When one witness for the lefens,o I had failed to put in appearance. Judge m Roberts asked the defendant If she had objections to the city statin;; their case. "Yes I have. They might tell a pack of lie?." she state'd No argument argu-ment could altar her lew. She simply Insisted that her witness should be present before the trial could be held. Judge Roberts advised the city attorney at-torney to set the cas' until another time "until the defendant was in "a Ir.-ime of mind that was not directly opposing her own trial." The defendant. defend-ant. howeVi r, insisted on having her trial this morning. oo |