"Miss Gilbert entered the court room carrying a pumpkin pie."

Ella Gilbert was a good girlfriend if not a particularly bright person. An excerpt from a story about her in the November 22, 1886 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: 

“Early Sunday morning Officer Masters saw two men and a woman lounging on Dean Street and told them to go away. One of the men did so, but the other, Andrew Brogan and the woman Ella Gilbert, of 82 Schenck Street, refused to move and were arrested. On the way to the station house, Ella, who is young and active, managed to escape. Today Brogan was sent to the Penitentiary for sixty days, and soon after he had been put back in the pen, Miss Gilbert entered the court room carrying a pumpkin pie which she told Officer Waldron was for Andy. Policeman Masters saw her and promptly placed her under arrest again. She pleaded not guilty and was committed until Wednesday.”