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TINWORK A SPECIALTY.HARRAIDED A VILE DIVE.LARGE SLICE OF LULU BROWN’S OUTFIT LANDED IN THE COUNTY JAIL.ord hai the barBftil Is Shortly Produced For the Women, and They Are Once More Befouling the Free Atmosphere.Down on Poplar street near Water there is a den of moral reptiles. It was raided last night by Captain Hyland, SergeantBeattie and Patrolmen Gardner, McCabe and• - . ...Weddle. Lulu Brown, a negro wench of in-Xamous reputation, was arrested and slatedhave hlt; to have law. T enough’, stampec It isprecipitBrown her hoi lice ord out ' inquintesi faith, rides! The nai nio did but the;as the keeper of the place. She was ac- i and nocompanied to jail by the following members of her leprous family: Ollie Ash, Lillie Smith, Mamie Smith and Dora Mallory, all• colored, and with characters many shades blacker than their skins. This redolent aggregation had the following male compan-ions, all negroes, in the patrol wagon: Wm. Hunter, Calvin Thomas, James Hicklan,• Mack W^cjler, John H. Johnson and John Davis. It is not.known how many of these names are fictitious, but probably most of them are. Shortly after the females were failed a friend of theirs appeared and bailed them out. The men were still locked up it last accounts.There was a scene at the dive when the fact that a raid was 011 became known to the inmates and iheir fellow-lepers of the masculine gender. Lift 11 Brown’s house looks like a very small affair from the outside, but it rambles and never quits rambling 011 the inside. It would be taken tocontain about three rooms while as a mat-$ter of fact it contains about four times three rooms. It is full of doors and dodge-ways. Even an experienced policeman finds himself puzzled and nonplused by its strange and mazy inerior. It is probable that the den was built this way 011 purpose, the owner being qi^e sure that she would have a place that the police ought to pull every night and every day until there should be nothing left to pull.This was the house the five officers attempted to command last night. The attempt was a large one and was only partially successful. The moment the alarm ran through the resort, that “the coppers were coming” there was a stampede. All the women and all the men, probably a total of eighteen or twenty persons, tried to lose themselves in the labyrinths. Some did not trust to evading detection and capture indoors, but piled out of windows and fied through the chilly night. The police did their best to keep the undertaking in hand but could not do so. There was such tumultuous scudding about the premises; such slamming of doors and such a lightning disappearance act on ail sides that the officers could not keep up with the performance. The pace was altogether too swift. Out of one of the many windows two or three negro men leaped into the darkness and came in violent contact with the fists of Patrolmen Gardner and Weddle. The beads of the negroes were not damaged particularly, but the policemen’s hands were much the worse for the collision.Probably half a dozen or more person:* pot away. Eleven were caught and loaded into the patrol wagon. It was a lor of freight for one horse to pull and the time made 011 the way to jail was not rapid. It. looked sometimes as though the whole party would stick fast in some of the alleys.average als yet ( after n taking not be s four hoA NewThe lt;versity,botanist “Pota to thdS€ and a gof the the cau to a mil of the on othe also belt; will kilinjuring rosive :and has*peri men inated. cheap a growers crops b;adopted“The sive sulcomino• •consider ment to of a nev\ is thorc The nevcalled flt; a gas, 11 ing intc that it i better k and can “The 15 very s lin are and in t two hou can be at once not cori kind of there aiobserver hands s and the Blit the*At last, however, the wagon rolled up tojther in; the curbing at the jail steps and the officers use as aescorted the prisoners 10 ihe inside. Their i names were recorded on :he jail docket andthen the women sat down to await the coming of their stand-by with the money for their release.It. is impossible to describe even faintlytin to t “The reaches ty thorn bushels, treatmeithe nature of the pestilent dive that this! mendedBrown woman conducts. She is herself ir-! value olprofit 01redeemably bad and for years has been a promoter of the most revolting immorality known in the city. At one time she presided over a resort on North Third street between Main and Ohio and many is the white man who has complained of being robbed there. This place finally failed to! realize the vicious ambition of Lulu Brown, j couditioi It was not tough enough, although i: was Unon it 1tougher than anything else Terre Haute; Too freqhad. She negotiated for a place on Poplar hack, is street, near Water, and got it. Then she \ ne’s an(^Fill a urine an sedimeniopened a den the like of which cannot bHoIfound elsewhere in the country. It is even j There said that Paris can furnish nothing so rot- j often ex] tenly and awfully depraved. Men who have Root, thlt; been over much of the world, and especial- * wish in 1a ,ly who know very well the greatest cities.! liver bla say Lulu Brown’s exhibition of systemat- passages ized vice is the most extraordinary they and scale have ever seen. j followingSuch are the facts about this house. It ; overconn stinks to heaven. And yet the police depart- j comp ment does not appear to be worrying inuph fhc nigh about it. Not an officer on the force is i cxtraordi ignorant of the unspeakable infamies praC- j realized, ticed at Poplar and Water. Chief Meagher ‘ derful ciknows all about it. or if he does not he has been asleep in regard to a matter every detail of which should be familiar to him. In spite of this fact. Lulu Brown his been allowed to go 011 exploiting depravity without let or hindrance. 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Terre Haute Semi Weekly Express
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 05, 1897
Page 8
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