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It was 60 years
ago, January 14, 1954 when Judge George B. Weiss in Women’s Court sentenced
Mrs. Rosie Patterson of 2206 Lake Street to the Bridewell for ten days,
followed by a one-year probation.
It seems that on
the preceding December 17 Mrs. Patterson’s little daughter, Alice, a student in
the first grade classroom of Mrs. Sybil L. Dungee at the Hayes School, had come
home wearing a smock instead of the snowsuit in which Mrs. Patterson had sent
her off to school.
Mrs. Dungee, the
teacher, had removed the wet snowsuit and given little Alice the smock to wear,
but somehow the child had left the school and gone home. This so incensed Mrs. Patterson that she
returned to the school on that December afternoon and whacked Mrs. Dungee with
a soft drink bottle. [Chicago Tribune, January 15, 1954]
It is unclear from
reportage whether Mrs. Dungee was able to hang onto the bottle and return it
for a deposit refund. She probably could
have used the nickel. The highest salary on the pay scale was $5,890, and at 30
she was a long way off from seeing that.
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