Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-30

Lave . Dbblc uFcccs IL you CAL MoAI IL,
you're welcome to it" and went out to get
it. After this was called to the door. They
said two police officers wanted to see me. I
went the to door and they said, Eve
want 10 see the woman that came from
Memphis with you" asked them what
they wanted of her, and they said they
wanted to see her. called SalIie and told
her take them back to see the girl. After
the policemen came out of the room where
they had besn talking with the girl, one Of
them remarked to me- "Well, Miss Alice,
We are satisfied. This woman tells US she hes
been in house of prostitution be-
FORE" 1 says, "That's what she tells
me. She represented herself to me
as being a woman that had been in house,
and &so that she wss married woman"
One of them remarked and says, swell,
three words from that woman convinced
me what she was"
She heard the girls swearing that morn
ing, and heard me swear, because it Is al
ways customary wben come home to take
s general ''sWearing OUT l didn't deceive
her. She knew perfectly well where she
was going, snd knew thst l told her In
Memphis l kept a
and when she asked me how much
GABE CALDWELL CALLED
Examined by Gen Bdte.--I am II old
the 18th of next December; 1 live at Bards-
town, Ky; left Pine Bluff, Ark, and
arrive at Bardstown, Saturday night;
don't remember the date; it was In August,
sometime; had been in Arkansaw-I think
we left the LIST Of June; we went to Little
Rock first; went with my father; he went
out there to go In the livery business with
Mr.. DilloD; he did so; that was at Little
Rock; didn't go to the Hot Springs; nevr
was there; when we came back we left
Tuesday, the 10Th OF 18th of August; went
down to Chico and got on
boat and came to Memphis, and
then went to Bardstown. My father and
Miss Alice Cromwell was travelling with me
from the time left Pine Bluff until got
to Mckenzie; there Left them. st Mem
phis, girl who gave the name of "Hamil-
ton" or "Hamlen," or some such name
joined our party; saw her at the Southern
Express Office. My father and aud Miss
Alice went down to get package and this
girl came by and stopped and asked Mss
Alice If she wanted 10 buy quilt, or if she
knew any one that would buy one; she
told her she did not; Miss Alice ssked her
II she lived in Memphis; she told her she
didn't, and said SIZE lived at Jacksonpor',
Arkansas; Miss Alice asked her if any of
her people lived in Memphis, and she told
her "No," and she asked here where she
lived, and she said NASHVILLE" Then
Miss Alice says 'You had better come up
home with me" and this irl says, 81 don't
know about it." When Miss Alice says, 81
keep boarding house, the girl says, II
can't work." Then Miss Alice says, "To
be plain about il, / keep
We all started on down the street, and Miss
ALICE says, "This girl is going home with
me-" and my father says, 81 have got moth
| ing to do with it." Miss Alice turned
| to the girl and says, 81 have told her what
kind of house keep" and turned to the
girl and says, "hayen't II" and the girl
says eyes," Miss Alice gave me So to pay
| her hotel bill; it was $3.50. We went up
! to the Worsham and says to the man,
"Send porter to get her trunk" She says
'Let us go up to the room first, want to
pack some things" Weut up to her room
| and she says to me,sI never was in q house
of this kind before, but am poor orphan
girl and have to make living" The por-
ter came up, got the trunk and she and l
| went on to Gaston's restaurant. asked
her if she was married and she said
Eyes, bat her husband died three months
| after she was married" left her there and
went on to get the check for her trunk, and
then went back to Gaston's restaurant.
My father asked the girl her name, and she
| said sHsmitO"," or .tHamliD," | don't
know which. He says &c Ter, 'If you take
my advice you won't 90 to Nashville" See
says: "Well, I'll go up and try it year,
and if don't like it, viii come away" He
says: "If you go up there you can't 60
into society afterwards" She says; "Well,
I'll go up and try it anyway" Father told
her not TO 60, or she would live the
d-dest live she sver lived in her
life; the girl was present, and father was
talking to her, Then we went on to the
depot and this girl and Miss Alice came
after us. On the way, the train stopped ct
some station and this girl sat next to the
window and wss sitting next to her, she
looked out and says, s'there's a man 1
know; don'5 want him to see me" and
she turned her head away. We went on
to Mckenzie and left them. got here on
Wednesday or Thursday night. The girl
asked me if Miss Alice was my mother, and
L said "nO, my mother didn't keep bad
| house." I don't remember that told her
where my mother lived; don't remember
that she asked me how much she could
make az the house OF that kind. l
was going back to Little Rock with
some horses that is here with Mr.. Sam
Bryan; have called this woman 'smother,"
but it was no choice of mine; was forced
| to ii; don't kno that called her mother
in the presence CT this grill don't think 1
| did. This girl knew she was not my mo-
ther, because she told her name was Alice
| Cromwell, ana she told her In the store she
wound "send little Gabey Caldwell for the
trunk" don't know tina there was any
body reard this conversation held
with the girl at the express Office.
Gross examined by n. ". BrieT.-I live
at Bardstown, KY; l don't know that my
father resides there; it is nearly two years
since he has been there; nay mother lives
there wit h the family; Think she has been
living there about nine years; there is two
sisters besides myself, but only one at home;
l suppose my father and mother are sepa-
rated; / don't know whether they are d.
vorced or not; my father has been trying to
get divorce; was forced by my father to
call Miss Alice 'mamma;" 1 staid at the
race track at Pine Bluff; l don't know
whether they staid al Pine Bluff together as
man and wife or not; l never heard her
| Called EsrSs CaluW6u t0er6j everybody
knew she was not bis wife; at
Little Rock he stopped at Mr..
Dillon's aid he had woman
Just like her-an old theatre actor they
called Miss Jenny Banker.
The remainder Of the testimony of this
witness was made up principally of reit-
Grafton of the testimony given on the d.
rect examination.
Officers Rymsn and Held were the next
witnesses examined, and their testimony
was of almost exactly the same purport.
They stated that they learned upon the
reefs, on the Saturday night in question,
that Alice Cromwell had brought 3 young
girl up from Memphis who didn't want to
stay at her house, and who had said she
was going to leave in the morning and go
back home, if she had to get policeman
to help her. Having been led
70 believe that the girl was de-
ined against her viii, the off,
GERS called a. the house, demanded 70 see
the girl, and after some opposition on the
part of Mss Alice were admitted. They
were taken into back room, into which
the girl was brought in about minute az
forwards. She was crying, and continued
to cry during their stay; seemed to be in
distress Init Would not saV whother aha