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FOR TEE COMMONWEALTH
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and he was half inclined to turn back and quiet Maddalena. But the demon of resentment was stubborn and held him in his course. A sudden and powerful grip on his arm swung him round, face to face with a burly policeman.
The jarring halt and the bullying aspect of the policeman filled Mario with a fury that was little short of madness. On top of all the other injustices he had suffered, here was an officer of the law threatening him he didn 't know with what horrors ! He tried to wrench himself free, but the officer took a firmer hold. Then Mario began to struggle, and the officer struck him in the face. With the rage of a wild animal, Mario fought for revenge and his freedom, and it was only when a second policeman arrived that he was sufficiently subdued to be led to the station-house.
Maddalena followed with little Tina, both wild-eyed with terror and bewilderment.
"E possibile! E possibile!" the poor woman murmured distractedly.
When, at the station-house, their destitute condition became known, they were sent to a charity home until the fate of the unhappy husband and father should be decided.
This was not kept long in abeyance, for Officer Flynn, who had "no use for them wops," made out a good case of felonious assault, and the lawyer appointed by the court for the dazed and broken-spirited prisoner, seeing neither glory nor fees in the case, made but a perfunctory defense. In consequence whereof, Mario Fagri. innocent of any criminal intentions and betrayed thru misery and the madness of despair into a momentary aberration from normal and lawful conduct, heard the prison gates clang behind him and found himself arrayed in convict stripes, with a number for a name.
No wonder poor Maddalena could not understand and murmured dis
MARIO LEAVES HIS HOME. ANGRY AND DISCOURAGED