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G. W. ('i‘oiik‘1' Play a OnwawliyRoll and Is Snnltbnl Flt;«'His Pains ]Has Got '.through With the!Country and Now TurnsTo the lt;'itytItH© Should Go Before the Grand(Jury and Tell the Stofy of HisOwn Infamy.Do You Hear the Slogan, Georgei l;Washington?aYesterday the writer of this was sitting at his desk in the Herald [ offieo, when a fellow came bouncing , into the office and asked if HiUigoss1wwas in. Being informed that he! was, he proceeded to draw from his £«pocket a summons and read: “You, ■] ‘Caft/ Hilligoss, are heiebv summon- Ij ed to appear before the Grand Jury instantcr, and so on Sw. For whatpurpose, the readers of Use Herald Imay know when we tell them that ! a few evenings ago. one George ; Washington Cromer was sitting at • a table in Lockwood's restaurant !with a party of gentlemen, when the conveisalion turned upon the I Herald and its attacks upon the open and licentious violations of| law, among a class of depraved mortals that walk our streets and ap ply their low calling, unmolested, even to the abduction tor immoralEtiifilHI!purposes, of orphan girls from the country. Cpon some remark bo; ing made by one of the party, thisfellow, Cromer, said, “J have now*got through with the country and I,shall turn myself to the city, and J i \shall have the editor of the H kuald I summoned before the Grand Jury ! to tell what he knows about prosti j lutes in * Mancie and violations ot ;9law/' We may r;oI huve A] i 1 Cromer s exact words, but we lt;nvelj them in substance, and the sum-| moirn yesterday \v;e only the carry-j ing out of his threat and was for no ! other purpose than to lt;xhibit a : vicious and a low bred spite. as1 shown in his remarks at Lockwood's,j restaurant. It is a well known factiof record, that Kate Finney. Flo*• */' Turner, Mrs. Wilson and Andrews, Q; * I| have all been arrested by the police j . force of the citv and fined in the3(i| justices court for prostitution. They ii « ,j are or have been keepers or houses j y ’ of ili-fame, a tact that could have !gibeen known from the police records, to George Washington Cromer justas they are known to other citizensof the cityvyet some ot these peoplat least, and others of like repuui tion, have been permitted by the.State’s Prosecutor to ply their voen j tion unmolested and not until a poor i1 torphan country girl sixteen yeaisl old, was abducted for prostitution, ! £ and then only on complaint of the girl's father, did George Washing-| ton Cromer act, to defend decencyand honor. The statutes ot ouriincif eiState provide heavy penalties for the keopersof houses of prostitution, j and they also provide heavy penal-ities against property owners who permit their property to be used for jsuch purposes, yet George Washington Cromer, as the State's Prosecutor, has sat by for nearly four years and up to this time took no j steps to enforce these laws, and when the Herald’' had the courage\F(\\cwCVu!MVt\to ask that the city be lid of these . heii-holes, he sits in a public restaurant and boasts that he will have the editor summoned to tell whathe knows on the subject. “I havenow got through with the country” saj^s this officer, “and will loo);after the city. ’ Yes, through withthe country. Many a poor fellow who has come to town and imbibed too much spirits, h;*8 been fined and costed, paying Mr. Cromer a S3 bill, which has been the history of the Prosecutor's office for nearly four years, but now being about ready to retire from the office(decency hopes forever) he proposes to turn his attention to the cityand this is ttio way ho is doing it.If George Washington Cromer will himself, go before the Grand Jury and tell what he knows about the green cloth, the stacks of pok* r chips, and midnight drunks and carousals, he will a talc unfoldthat will suprise the Grand Jury of this county and cause them to blush with i?hame. The Herald knows what it is talking about, and Mr. Cromer knows still better than theHerald. ISo bluffs go even fromthe Piosecuiin^ Attorney, who.stands charged in past years ofusing money and whiskey amongthat cla*s ot voters that could be induced to accept such, to influence elections and nominations in Delaware county. This is the man that -has been prosecuti ng the pleas otthe State for nearly four years andsits in a public restaurant and advertises his own infamy.010nstHirlt;6111F£Ie■J
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Muncie Daily Herald
Muncie, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 20, 1890
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
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