She would claim to have smashed $50,000 worth of glass around Wisconsin, and she never did say why. Rage? “Every time she would get out of jail,” theorized Don, “she’d break the window and they realized there was nothing they could do about it. And what did they do? They gave her a bus ticket somewhere.” They did not; there were no buses in 1892, but there are buses now, and sometimes cities and towns dispatch those whom they have no call to imprison and yet wish gone with free tickets. I’ve seen it happen. I wanted to ask Don if he’d seen it, too, but his river of speech kept rolling: “And
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