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Mother of six jailed for failure to pay auto judgement
Associated Press · May 24, 1950
Mrs. Hattie Cooke, 36, mother of six children prepares dinner for herself and other inmates of the St. Albans, Vt., jail where she has been confined for three months for failure to pay a $1,966.75 judgement against her in an auto damage suit. Wife of a $20-a-week farmhand, Mrs. Cooke hopes to be declared a "poor debtor" to win freedom from jail where she has been confined under Vermont's 1808 "Closed Jail" statute.
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