National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-08-15
REDDY WEIGHS DEN.
RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT CHARACTER

Martin. Experience 10 wsshiusten-Bis
Arrest, with -Four Friends, Yesterday
by Detective McDevitt-Hew stranger
wa. Taken In aud Robbed-ssd Results
OF the Kindly Omce- OF Refsrmers-Bis
WIG n wreck aud weIch Geins Far
ther Down the NH.
Washington, like all other cities OF size and
Importance, has lts neither side, and the great
mass OF humanity which daily pass up and down
the Avenue, from Ninth 10 Fourteenth street,
little dream that within sight and hearing are
located dens OF iniquty which only lack the
proper visitatious Of strangers TO render them
a. dangerous aud as notorious as only the Five
Points Of New YORK can boast Of. Among this
class IL the piac, kept by the notorious Martin
alias "Rci,ly" WEIGH. located at the corner Of
Eleventh aud streets northwest. Within one
square OF the main thprougnfare, and one square
each way Of the streets leading TO Important
public building, this den stands monument OF
how law can he dened AMI decency outraged by
those who have no regard for either, for WEIGH
Keeps most disorlcrly "mill," and, as far as the
authorities know, has no license.
The history Of "Rediy" for the last ten years
In this District, II It could he truthfuly and
fully written, would present a series Of the most
Of the transgrcssor Ia not so hard (as far as
Reddy Is conccrncj) as some people have been |
wont TO imagine II. lie has been guilty Of many |
supposed violations OF the law, aud has always
been promptly arrested, but has as often man
aged to escape punishment by hook or crook.
AZ far back as 1t suits the purpose Of q reporter
to refer to him, freddy" kept the rancho known
as American hail, on d street, between Twelfth
anu Thirteenth, which was then, and as long as
he remained there, tho resort OF oil the roughs
who infested the city. There many and many
Jobs OF yarions kinds were put up" and from
Its precinct there lssaei many who were bent on
robbery aud crime.
Tue latest case OF note was that Of Rache Boil
er,who there got the loaded gun from which he
nrci the fatal shot whish sent him to the peni-
Tertiary. As beer shop and dance house, fire.
quented by the lowest characters, American hall
received It's visitors and maintained an unenvi-
able reputation until about fifteen months ago,
when 1t was condemned a. a nuisance, and the
proprietor notified to remove, but prior to this
order Reddy had rendered the use OF his hall
on sunday evening to the Young Mems Christian
Association for the purpose OF holding prayer
meeting, with the evident intention Of gaining
the notor,ety achieved by John Allen, Of New
York.
When he was ordered to move, some Of the
would.bc philanthroplsts who were then agtat-
ing the community with their iabors thought
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