AN OUTBURST IN COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2179, 18 June 1914, Page 5

AN OUTBURST IN COURT

"HERE I AM AGAIN." ' "Here I am again," said Lilian Jukes, who appeared in the- Magistrate's Court yesterday, with a stern, set face. "Once more they have got hold of me. I don't care." 'Then, icatching sight of a body of constables and probationers in the court, she said: "Oh, what a nice lot of gentlemen I have to look after me I Yes, I was arrested last night, and I have only had half a blackball since. ■ That is what they fed me on! Half a .blackball! Never mind they are satisfied; they've got me. Why do they take me? Simply becauso I've got no money. I can't bribe them; I can't else I wouldn't he here, Perhaps they will give me three months for something now. Last Christmas I got three months for nothing. Perhaps they will give mo a year this time. They can give me what they like. I don't care." ' The woman was told repeatedly to stop talking, and did stop, till' the red hangings round the dais caught her eye. "Fancy having green hangings all round the Magistrate's perch. What an insult to my country! i »'hy don't you'put up Royal blueKing Edward's.colours. Green! Ugh! What an insult I I'm Irish, and I'll die Irish. Why don't thoy get hold of some of these Suffragettes? Because they're frightened; that's the reason! But they're not frightened of me. I've got no money, and I'm harmless." "Silence!", called the, Court orderlv as tho'ltfagistratb (Mr.".W.".G./:ftiddo]i) entered the.court,.room.,.'",'.".,. • There was temporary silence, till the Clerk of (ho' 'Court called "Lilian Jukes." She entered the box to answer, two charges, one of drunkenness, and another of using objectionable language. "You are charged—-" said the Clerk of the Court. '-..:' "Charge me with what you like!" retorted Jukes. "Charge mo with anything you like! What docs it matter, anyhow?" • The Clerk of the Court endeavoured to read the charges, but the excited woman refused to listen. The charges were then called loudly to her. .'"Do you wish to be tried hv a jury or dealt with by His Worship?" asked . the Clerk of the Court. ■> The woman did not answer. "flow do you plead?" asked the clerk "Plead? How do I plead? I don't plead!" . ' Chief-Detective Broberg: "I would suggest that she be remanded for a week iir order that sho may cool down." ''Cool down! ' You can't cool mo! You -might bo able to kill mo!" sho vociferated. Sho was then removed from the court, and the Magistrate granted a Tomand til' June' 24.