ALLY OF "RILEY, THE RAT." ~ So "Simply but Richly Dressed" Woman Was Fined $500.

April 3, 1909
ALLY OF "RILEY, THE RAT."

So "Simply but Richly Dressed"
Woman Was Fined $500.
Girl Friend of Riley the Rat
WOMAN WHO CALLS HERSELF "MAY CLARK."

The woman who stood "simply but richly dressed" in the municipal court yesterday morning and "showed much refinement," was fined $500 for picking a woman's pocket in a main street store on Thursday, was identified yesterday as the woman companion of "Riley, the Rat," who is now cracking rocks at the city workhouse.

When questioned by the judge, the woman said that her name was "May Clark" and that she had "come from home." She refused to give further information as to her friends or relatives.

When taken to the workhouse yesterday afternoon, she was recognized by Bert Pease, the wagon driver, as the woman who came to the workhouse every few days to see "the Rat." On different occasions she would bring him baskets of fruit and other delicacies.