Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1909 — GETS $7,000 FOR HER SEVEN HOURS IN JAIL [ARTICLE]

GETS $7,000 FOR HER SEVEN HOURS IN JAIL

San Francisco Milliner Wins Sult Against Chicagoan. I San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 16. —A thousand dollars an hour for seven hours spent in jail was the compensation awarded Annettfe Hartzell, a local milliner, by the jury which has heard the evidence in the $25,000 damage suit she brought against John D. Murphy, representative of a Chicago wholesale establishment. Mrs. Hartzell was arrested on a complaint by Murphy charging her with obtaining goods under false representation. The complaint was dismissed. The jury awarded her $7,000.