The Old Times: MOTHER HAD SAMPLED WINE THAT YOUNG SON STOLE

 


Today I've got an article from June 18th, 1909, from the Detroit Times. It starts off a with a just a little larceny, put packs a punch at the end. 

MOTHER HAD SAMPLED WINE THAT YOUNG SON STOLE

Mrs. Cieslak Comes to Juvenile Court Intoxicated, Creates Scene and Is Locked Up.

Shouting and screams that could be heard from the fourth floor of the county building to the basement drew a crowd of several hundred persons, including judges, lawyers and jurors, to the juvenile court, Friday morning. The noise was made by Mrs. Cieslak, mother of Walter Cieslak, the boy who the day before had stolen 22 bottles of dandelion wine. The boy had been remanded to the D'Arcambal farm, when his mother began scream. She continued to screech and ery until she became hysterical. Nothing the officers could do quieted the woman, and for more than a half hour her voice penetrated every room. in the building until business was almost suspended. The actions of the woman, her appearance and a strong odor of liquor convinced the officers that she had been drinking. The patrol wagon was called and the woman taken to Woodbridge station.

The boy said his mother had sampled some of the wine be stole, but said she didn't like it, as it "didn't. bite enough."

The boy's father was released recently from the house of correction, where he served 90 days for attempting to kill his wife. They live at No. 1256 Twenty-fifth-st.

Little Walter Cieslak was just the fire that lit Mrs. Cieslak's fuse, and she was a bomb waiting to explode. Walter stole 22 bottles of dandelion wine, and seemingly wasn't too inconspicuous about it, because the cops showed up to his house. But, that wasn't before Mom had a sip and basically said it was for pansies and went back to chugging jet fuel. She then clearly had a mental health event of biblical proportions, but back then it would be called something like "a bout of  the woman crazies" or something else wildly sexist. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that the father of her child was put in jail for only 90 days for attempted murder, and Daddy is back on the streets teaching his son to steal flower wine. 

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