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Show MRS. NIXON SENT TO JAIL In the ciiminal division of the municipal muni-cipal court this morning, Mrs. William Nixon again made her appearance. She was charged with drunkenness and pleaded guilty. The court sen tenced her to serve ten days in jail, I without, respite. Yesterday Mrs. Nixon was given an opportunity to leave the city with her husband that they might take up a residence in the country. She stated stat-ed to the court that It would be a great pleasure for her to accompany her husband to some country farm and there begin life anew, but it seems she did not succeed in getting away. j When Bhe appeared In court this morning she had her suit case carefully care-fully packed and tightly fastened for a long journey There were large tears in her eyes as she undertook to tell the court that she "was on htr way" last evening when the flowing bowl cgain captured her and Bhe fell by the wayside, intoxicated, and that the officers brought, her buck to the jail without giving her a chance to straighten up and join her husband .who had departed from the city. The woman was picked up by the officers back of one of the saloons of lower Twenty-ilfth street. In sentencing the woman to jail the court indicated that patience had ceased to bo a virtue iu the matter and that the best thing to do was to administer punishment according to the provisions of the city ordinances. ordin-ances. Susie Jones, a colored woman, a regular occupant of the jail, was arraigned ar-raigned again this morning on tue charge of vagrancy. This time he pleaded guilty and was ordered taken to the jail for a service of ten days. Miss Jones says she has no particular partic-ular dread for prison lite, for she has become so accustomed to It that it "seems like home" to her. When W. J. Luther pleaded guilty to the charge of having begged on the streets of the city, he qualified ll by saying he had made a fool of himself and that he would never do It again. His words, however, were unheeded un-heeded by the court and the seutence of "ten days in the city jail at hard labor" was pronounced before he could finish his tale of woe. |