Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
THE SOCIAL EVIL.

Prosecuting the Women After Having
Licensed Them-No Attempt to Imp1i-
cate the Men who Create and Sustain
the Institutions.
In the district court yesterday morning,
the case of the State vs.. Carrie Mccarthy,
charged with keeping a house of i'll
fame resorted to for the purposes of pros
titution-the third of the social evil
cases tried at the present term-was
taken up and the entire forenoon con-
sumed IN impanneling jury, as follows:
Fred. Luhrsen, Frank c. Abbott, w. D.
Rogers, E. E. Hughson, j. P. Gribben,
G Bohn, +. Fogg, John Egan, Matt
Koch, Dennis O'Neil, L. M. Fishbein and
Chas. Mccarthy. Attorneys C. D. and
j. D. O'Brien appeared for the defense,
County Attorney Egan for the prosecu-
ton. At the threshold of the case Mr..
O'Brien moved that the State be required
to elicit the particular date of the
commission of the offense as the
complaint failed to charge
continuous offense, the specific statement
being that the alleged crime was COM
mitted on the 1st of August aid at divers
times between that date and the 18th Of
October After considerable argument
the motion was overruled and an excep-
tien noted at the request Of the defense.
The court then, at the instance of the
county attorney, took a recess to
O'Clock.
AFTERNOON PROCEEDINGS.
Upon reassembling, counsel for defense
tho ,onf;Op oboua roforrad RI
which was again overruled. This was
followed by another motion that
the state be required to disclose
the order of the proofs whereupon
long argument ensued, at the close of
which Chief Weber was called and testi-
fed to having visited defendants house
on Eagle north of Exchange street some
four or five times in professional capac-
ity, and also to its general reputation as
a house of ill-fame. Every question of
the county attorney was met by prompt
objection on the part of the defense and
by lengthy argument relative to the
legal effect Of evidence of general reputa-
ton. After this had been IN progress for
some time. The witness was dismissed
and
GEORGE SNOW CALLED,
who testified substantially as follows:
About the last of August met
defendant who said she was
keeping the house on Eagle
street and asked me. to come and live
with her: she said her terms were S. per
week for board and half the money made
by the boarders; went there and COM
Piled with the terms for Two weeks, after
which kept house for defendant at her
request she agreed to pay S. week and
board; keeping house means tending to
everything about the house and includes
tending to the door; there were SIX girls
in the house besides wit
ness in the house at the time, all fast
women; these girls paid witness OF the
landlady herself when she was there;
they followed no occupation but that of
fast women; all money collected, witness
paid to Carrie Met arthy, during the first
two weeks witness was there defendant
kept house herself, she said to witness
she (defendant) wanted to use her wit
messy name in case anything happened,
to shield herself; this was the reason why
she paid fines and represented herself as
the proprietress; the house was house
of ill-fame; men came there at all hours,
day or night; they would drink wine and
beer; sometimes they would go upstairs
and remain all night, and again others
would stay but a short time; the girls
would meet men in the parlors; the
women sometimes were dressed in low
neck dresses, etc. Mrs. Mccarthy paid
the bills and hired the help; when the
chief OF police called he would
enquire for the land lady,
and DEFENDANTS would appear.
The cross examination was very search
ing, and substantially as follows: Came
from Fargo here; lived there three years;
was put up to appearing in the police
court and paying fines as keeper of the
house; did swear before the grand jury
to having paid $500 for the privilege Of
keeping the house, but was put up to do
it. Witness at this point became indig-
nant on being asked ii she had not
changed her testimony at the instance OF
the man with whom she was living, and
declined to answer and also to give the
name of the party referred to. The
county attorney objected to this line Of
cross examination, and long legal
disquisition was the result, at
the close of which the cross
examination was resumed when
the witness denied she had ever told the
COlOr6Q WOIudu JOucS Iudt SuC WOuIu
send Carrie Mccarthy to the penitentiary
if it cost her thousand dollars.
On the redirect, witness testified no
body had ever promised her any reward
for testifylng in this case except the de-
PENDANT, who had called on her Friday
night and asked her not appear here as
witness to play off sick or leave town;
defendant said she would make it all
right if witness would do so; did not
say what she'd give; refused to leave town;
witness goes by the name of Geogie Snow,
but that was not iher true name; the
lease referred to was handed witness by
Carrie Mccarthy in the presence of her
NC arthy's) husband; witness never
paid dollar on the lease; the arrange
ment was all understood about the lease
being made out in witness name; witness
testified as she did before the grand jury
at defendants request.
This closed the testimony of the wit
ness and the material testimony of the
case, except that several other witnesses
were called and gave evidence as to the
general reputation of the house as
house of lll-fame. For the defense the
colored woman, Jones testified asserting
in effect that the witness Snow