“A woman calling herself Minnie Warren presented herself at the Mayor’s office Wednesday night and solicited lodging. She appeared to be a mild kind of a crank, and Hank called the servant and sent her up in the elevator to the lady’s department and gave her the best room in the house. Next morning she thanked her entertainers and left the Mayor’s office without further ceremony. In the afternoon she was discovered in the First Ward, he general crankiness of temperament having been emphasized to an alarming extent by divers and sundry draughts of fire water.”
“She was on the war path. She wanted it understood that she was bad medicine; a cyclone; a howling hurricane from away over on the other side. She wanted to throw a brick through a window. She said her name was ‘Public Views.’ This last piece of intelligence paralyzed the citizens and they called the police. She was taken to the Mayor’s office between two of them, informing the admiring citizens as she went along that she was the great moral terror, and that if she wanted to she could annihilate her two blue-coated escorts with one kick of her delicate foot. She also repeated the startling intelligence that her name was ‘Public Views.’ She was locked up overnight, and on being brought before the Mayor states that she was from Winchester, Virginia, and expressing a desire to return to the Old Dominion his honor agreed to send her as far on her way as Ashland. His honor is jealous of his Virginia blood, and we believe he is trying to palm the woman off upon Kentucky.”1
