Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1878 — A Determined Woman. [ARTICLE]

A Determined Woman.

Miss Alice McKee, of Chicago, was unable to pay the rent of her bumble apartments, and a constable entered them in order to levy upon her furniture. She piotested, he insisted, refusing to show his writ of authority. He had obtained entrance by representing that he wished to obtain board. Miss McKee took a pistol from a bureau and shot the intruder Gead, Ou the trial it was proved that the pieces of furniture on which he was levying were exemptand that throughout he had exhibited insolence and stupidity. The jury immediately acquitted her, a verdict indication that a woman iu Chicago has some rights which even officers of the law are bound to respect.