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tkeRED LIGHTSPolice Raid Three Rooming Houses and No. 10, Electric Alley — Capture Fallen Women and Two IV!cnSEARCH AND SEIZURE WARRANT USED AGAINRaid Had Been Planned SeV' eral Days Ago—Charges of Vagrancy Madeimvo ev-ing muft Iren;'' it mo with L,\ th?JJr con-llosM uro Letter elly of nla 8ldo built la t.s nlck-ruiTiy at 11130(1 111In line willi tlic policy ot the city commissioners to wipe out I lie Itjiffic in women’s soitls, so . far as.;it applies.to Ogden, Chie^ of Police \V. [, Norton, and a squad of offtas and' detectives, last night conducted a ;\vll-cHrcct-ed raid on three rooming houses aiul a house at No .10 Electric Alley; Kightecn fallen women, three colored and fifteen white, and two men, one Jap and one while, were gathered.in the net and taken to the city jail where they were booked under charges, of vagrancy.- All but two were released, under bail to appear in police court this morning.Ever Hineo Hi* closing of the Electric alloy, d.ti Juno 16, tho roomingtiptigea of Ogrtuii luivo been’ jinrtcr clo^o Hiiiyolllnneo. 1-ust- week ' Com-mlnnlanor tif Public Safely Samuel T. Browning AnU Chief oT Police Norton decided that Romo of .the rooming Inniflofl woro being operated in flagrantviolatlcm of On: law. Preparationsworts mudQ to raid tho houses In tiiios-tto.n,HenreU ninl Sc 1/lire. ..VI'' YciMcrday Chief Norton secured( aSearch ..find Hipssuni. warrant..*, from.ddiffl AV.‘ N. flo.ciJcr, giving pcrtnlflTDion Jo flearcli IhVpr'cmlses.at trio alloy. Shortly after .0^ o'clock lent night tho officers-ueleetoil’for* tli a niltl were called Erjto.Lho private office of Chief Norton, whoro tho plana for-the raid wore gone over- In detail, sollmt no jnlalakos 'ln -llib\ operationmight ho made. A little after. 10 o'clock the officers separated ' Into three ' Hqiiads, going- direct to the hoiiHea flflnlgncd to then*. • * Halil Writ Planned. .Arm oil villi! n search ami seizure warrant, Chief Norton mini Detectives Churl cs Pin cock ami George Ward law went to Dig house at,No. 10 Electric ftMoy, dp era Icnl hy Nina' timid. • Another .composed of DetectivesTom lUirk, Itiohurd . Pincock niid CJ, VI. ftwuriBon wont to Ilia Palace room-.ing ‘ house cit 2fi4 t-2 Twonty-rifth mmi. .The inlr'd party,- matin up.of JjctectW’CH Hobart Chant horn utitl Hob-crt I lurk mtri Officer Dan* Sullivan, wont to the Fashion rooming house and the Fashion Annex, 208'1-2 TweA* ly-fiffh mreel. Officer H. V-. Pctcr-hoii wiia sin tinned In tho icar of tho rooming lioiifics to z re vent any at* tomptnd esruptB.Few of tho inmates of any. of the houncfl escaped. Tu llioFnfiMn*i and the Uinlilou annex twelve white ylrls and line man, ii Jnp, wore gitnercd Into tho tci 11s. -.nly onoor two evaded nrroah One escaped by climbing Jo ■ the roof on an adjoining-hutUllng andwaking until the officers had left the scene. Thu worn on were taken Immediately to the pollco station, and hooked tinder charges of vagrancy. They were hell ii. the court room pending the completion 6r tho nr-rangcmonlg for halt. . 'Tho girls arrested In the Fashion and Fashion annex gave *bofr mimes aa fellows: Clnrn Sllha, 23 years old; Pearl Leonard, 24 yearn old; Graeo Wright, 22 years old;'Ellen Drown, 25 yearn old; Trixie Miller, 25 years;cdd; Marie White, 30 years old; May Hart-man, '25 years-aid; AJIco ffartinhn. 23 years old; Thelma Bartlett, £b years the do-j old; PjiuIIho Huffman, 25 years old; if u datei Ifaltlo Kmllh arid Grae* Gnht, 24on the!-----------(Continued an Pago 6.); Willis theroro any offer a forgo II. himself further rrow by3 WliliS,case 111havingin. It i merely o'clock'that belie hud ilence in lt;1 no do-the Pain;nted nn ih staled tho conic alxly-t u trial
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Ogden Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Wed, Aug 21, 1912
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