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Show WOMAN IS TOLD TO DEPART MAY SMITH IS DRIVEN FROM THE CITY. Left the City Jail With Her Wardrobe Ward-robe Wrapped in a Paper She Picked Out Two Dope Heads. Tho morning session of police court was largely taken up with the case of May Smith, a disconsolate-appearing damsel who has been "up" on various charges recently, but who has managed to escape the heavy hand of the law in almost every instance. May was charged with vagrancy and entered en-tered an empiiatle plea of not guilty. Detective Pender, whom May "attempted "at-tempted to entice into her ''picture gallery" several weeks ago and was given a severe reprimand for so doing, do-ing, was the principal witness against the. defendant . He stated that the girl had been living from hand lo mouth for some time and had apparently appar-ently no legitimate mean? of support other than what ehe could pick up in one way and another from strangers about town. He also stated that a man had complained that May had relieved re-lieved him of a watch during tho night Tho girl was placed on the stand and tearfully asserted to the Judge that she earned her living honestly and "wasn't crooked." The Judge evidently ev-idently caught a whiff of the booze-tainted booze-tainted atmosphere surrounding the supplicant and btated forthwith that if she would get out of town before morning he would release her, 00 days I in Jail to be tho penalty should she return or fall to leave. I May hurried to her "room" In the ' woman's ward and appeared shortly with her luggage In a small paper sack. Catching sight of the city physician phy-sician and a newspaper man standing near, she pointed them out ns "dopp head accomplices" of the police and hastened away in the direction of the Union station. |