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ro• iI1IWOMAN JULGE DIES‘Suitcase Mary: Noted for Help to d Delinquent GirlsIT Carmel, Calif., July 26 (AP)Suitcase Mary” is dead. r-| Man- M. Bartelme, Illinois’ first t. woman judge, won that affectionate is nickname by giving thousands of ic suitcases filled with clean clothes to ^ girls going to foster homes. She said ** I it gave them dignitv.* Miss Bartelme died Sunday at the i home of her niece. Miss Adelaide Bartelme. in Carmel v\here she had \c lived since retiring in 1943. She wa* n h 88. 6 Miss Bartelme first was elected o . judge in 1923 in her native Chicago and confined her activity to the E r~ bailiwick she knew and loved best S 1 i —the juvenile court. i^ In 1897 she began her career to the juvenile judge she was to replace it was her job to send un-n j fortunate girls to foster homes.H Miss Bartelme’s work didn’t end s: j when the court closed for the day. ai| In 1914 she gave her home to house 14 dependent girls.s-F1r-
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Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Mon, Jul 26, 1954
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