Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1906 — A little Woman With a Big Jag. [ARTICLE]

A little Woman With a Big Jag.

Officers Parks and Vick gathered in a subject rather out of the ordinary late Wednesday night. Calls for tljeir services had come first from Elm street and then from a house on Division street drunken woman was annoying the people of the vicinity. They finally came up with her on Washington street, headed towards the business district. She was a little stubby old woman, about 60 or 65 years old, with a basket on her arm and drunk clear through. She was taken to the jail and given accommodations in the padded cell. She said her name was that she had been working for a party near Lee, and sending her wages to her 89 year old mother, who she said had just died, at Hammond, but by the next morning was only very sick there. She was a very voluble talker, but many of her statements made at night when drunk, she contradicted next morning when sober. She was very favorably impressed with Sheriff O’Connor and finally, as the height of compliment she remarked to him “d— you, your Irish.” As for herself, she said she was Scotch-Irish, and added that it was “h— — to-be Irish.” She was much concerned about the contends of her basket, especially about a bottle of ‘ ‘heart medicine’ ’ in it and without which she would surely die the next morning. A search of the basket showed that the heart medicine was a pint whiskey bottle, nearly empty, showing that jhe old lady bad had numerous heart to heart conferences with that heart medicine, during the day. Next to the heart medi cine she was most solicitous about a pair of alleged “dancing slippers” in her basket, but which proved to be a pair of pretty solid kind of shoes. The township trustee furnished her with transportation to Hammond, where she probably came from, and she left on the 9:55 a. m. . train Thursday.