Gray - Sadie
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 3 Dec 1902
Sadie Gray, the wife of Andy Gray who for some time has lived at the Marion (Indianapolis, Indiana) Soldier's home and a woman who was a constant source of trouble to the local police when she lived here is again before the public, this time in Marion. The Leader tells the tale: Thomas Shehan and Sadie Gray were in police court Friday morning, the former charged with being a 'resorter'. Shehan pleaded guilty and was fined $10.40 and costs total $20.40 which he was unable to pay and was sent to jail for 21 days. When the woman was arraigned she broke forth in a torrent of abuse, calling the authorities liars and talking in a vulgar manner.
Mayor Kiley ordered her sent to jail until she was sober and she was taken to Sheriff Bradford's boarding house to wait until she is in proper shape to be present in court. The Gray woman is the wife of Andrew Gray, an old veteran at the home, to whom she was married a few years ago. She is said to have led him a merry chase and to have taken up with Shehan more than a year ago. He acknowledged this in court, although he claimed not to have known until several months ago that she was a married woman. Thursday evening Gray and his wife and Shehan called at the Brunswick and secured a room. They made so much noise that they were fired out of that place and they went to a lodging house in Johnstown, where they secured a room for the remainder of the night. They were all drunk it is said. About 5 o'clock Friday morning Gray claimed he had been robbed of some money and created such a disturbance that they were fired out of that house.
Gray came up town and reported his alleged loss while Shehan and Mrs. Gray went to a barber shop in North Marion where they were arrested later by Patrolman Landrum and taken to police headquarters. The woman was still intoxicated and talked in a most ridiculous manner. It was not learned how much money Gray claimed he lost as he did not appear in court against the pair, although he had promised to do so.
Source: CWJ 3 May 1901
Sadie Gray, the fond |but faithless wife of Andy Gray, who rivals Rufus Wells in the capture of garbage, is once more in the body of the county jail, and in adjoining cells are those truly excellent colored gentlemen, Jim Gill and Simp Bell. It seems that these simian bounders have for some time past been noisy rivals for the somewhat faded favors of shifty Sadie. She smiled, if an exhibition of her saffron fangs could be called smiling, on both apes and consequently a fierce rivalry grew up between them. When Simp was favored Jim chewed broken glass in blind rage, and when Jim and Sadie strolled by moonlight Simp refused to be comforted. Naturally things could not go on thus forever, and Monday Jim took the initiative and incidently a good licking. Simp and Sadie, considerably under the influence of cheap beer and cocaine, wobbled unsteadily along Main street a little while after the clock in the steeple boomed twelve. Simp carried a billiard cue and a razor and felt tolerably secure. At the corner of Walnut and Main they met Mr. Gill who likewise carried a billiard cue. Both men snarled and clubbed their cues while Sadie skated up a tree box like a lizzard up a stump. Simp and Jim exchanged the compliments of the evening in the soft and liquid language for which both are justly famous, and after the close of the classics went after each other tooth, toe nail, and billiard cue. The resounding whacks of the cues on their adamantine pates, their roars of rage, and the affrighted squawks of the delicious little bunch of femininity up the tree box awoke the sleepers for blocks about. Up and down the street the battle raged, both men fighting like rival torn cats on a clothes line. Senator Johnston attempted to drive them off but they paid no more attention to him than if he had never seen th3 state house. Snapping, snarling, swearing, and club swinging Simp and Jim wallowed about in the dust. Up Main street, down Walnut, and back again to Main, biting, scratching, spitting, urged on by Sadie the siren, the black brutes battled for supremacy. But all things have an end. Finally Simp managed to give Jim a tremendous whack on the shins with what was left of his cue and Jim fell in the dust writhing in pain. Simp then leaped upon him with his hob nailed shoes and tramped his face until it simply lost all resemblance to that of a human, although it might be parenthetically stated that it never did bear very much such resemblance. Woman, lovely woman, then slid down from her perch in the shade tree and decamped with the victor. Jim was picked up and carried to the office of Dr. Sigmond where nearly a hundred stitches were taken to sew up the gashes in his head and great chunks of gravel and dirt were dug out of his mangled face. Later in the night Simp and Sadie were captured and were both jailed.