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MAGGIE LOFTUS.(Who Has Been Committed to Prison Over Sixty Times.)she is at least 65, some of the police place it as low a.9 45, and out ^.t the Workhouse she is thought to be from 55 to 58. Her face plainly shows the deep marks of smallpox, as well as of dissipation, and her nose is sharply tip-tilted. She almost habitually wears a shawl over her head, and her dress is simply what might be expected. As she has so often stood before a Judge to hear the words that would again send her to imprisonment, she-presents the figure shown in tho accompanying picture. That, however, Is one of her quieter moments, and no one, to see her then, would understand what has ; made her so famous and so feared.But If the same person should see her on the street, struggling and writhing in the grasp of half a dozen policemen, who were vainly trying to restrain her, and kicking, striking, clawing, scratching, biting and filling the air with shrieks of appalling i blasphemy, raving in madness, a veritable human fiend, then he would understand Mag as the police understand her. Then he wouldwhere she had lived with her daughter and tried to get in. The door was locked, and she failed. In reality her daughter had moved away, but she did not know it, and, believing her daughter was refusing to again receive her, she went away, got drunk, and, coming back, she began the job of kicking in the door, with an excellent prospect of success, when she was again arrested. Next day she was back at the Workhouse again.But now, and for three years to come,the police will be at peace. They wdllbreathe easier. Mag has been “put away,” as, they call it. No more can the dread word come that “Mag is loose again.” No more will the reserves be routed out to struggle wdth one woman and drag her to a station house.Yes, Mag is jugged for a long w-hile to come. She goes about out at the Workhouse doing odd jobs of cleaning and paying little* heed to anything but her own i thoughts. What those thoughts are no one on earth knows but she herself. Maybe she wishes she might live the years over again and live them in a different way. It is too late.
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The Cincinnati Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sun, Dec 15, 1895
Page 13
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