Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-26
.aCiOn.
-.sempts Said 10 Have Been Made to
Entice Girls and Married Woman
From Their Homes.

The Louisville Sunday Argus gives an &C
| count in its last Issue OF the doIngs OF
Memphis celebrity in that city. The celeb
| rity in question is a questionable celebrity,
| and, Judging from the account in the Argus,
che has an abundant supply OF iron-cIad
assurance. The following Is the Louisville
| papers account of her transactions. concern
| ing winch the APPEAL knows nothing and
| the accuracy of which il Is equally igno-
rant of:
In the early part of the week just past
| Mrs. Josephine Leonard, widow living in
| the third fat of a large brick tenement at
| Seventh and Jefferson streets, reported to the
| detectives that her daughter Lulu, q mere
| child had been missing from home for sew
eraI days, aud that nothing could be learned
| of her whereabouts. Detective Lindsay in
| vestlgated the case and speedily discovered
| that the girl had been taken to Memphis by
a notorious woman named Pauline Living
| stone, who presides over an Infamous estsb-
lishment at No. 134 Winchester street, in
| that CITY,. 1t was reported at first that the
missing girl had been kidnapped, but
| thorough investigation OF the case by rep
| resentative of this paper proves the contrary.
| 1t was simply the art of the procuress that
led the poor girl away. She went, it might
be said, of har own free will, and 10 the face
friends, but nevertheless her ruin must be
laid at the door of the infamous woman who
held out to her such grand promises of fine
life in the gilded naaison at Memphis.
THE VICTIMS
As to her ch aracter, no more brszen and
dangerous woman than Pauline Livingstone,
it is said, ever lived. This fact was devel-
oped by the Argus reporter in his investiga-
ton of the Leonard case. She, il is alleged,
is in the habit of visiting Louisville annual
Iy for the purpose of procuring young girls
TO be introduced to life of shame at her
wicked establishment in Memphis. She has
been eminently successful in this, it is said,
and many Louisville girls hive been roped
from home and ruined within the walls OF
her infamous den. She arrived in Louisville
about one week ago snd stopped at the Elliot
House, having been first refused board by
Alice Fielder, OF No. 119 Jefferson etreet.
With the assistance OF Mary Phil, a loose
WON an, and two low characters of the male
persuasion, she started in pursuit of her
game. One OF the first girls introduced TO
her notice was the Lulu Leonard referred 10
above and the introduction came through a
fast woman named Lottie Howard, who lives
in one of the cigar-store dives on Jefferson
street, between First and Brook. Lulu was
an exceptionally pretty girl, barely sixteen
years OF age, of decidedly innocent appear
arce and attractive manners. 1t is said,
however, that prior TO this time she had
been in the habit OF running at large, al
though her mother stoutly denies the charge
and claims that the child was pure. At all |
events, Nine. Livingstone succeeded, with |
the assistance of the woman Lottie Howard, |
ia persuading the child to accompany the |
brazen expedition TO Memphis. The How
ard woman, who had been her friend for |
some time, promised to join the party, and |
upon this condition Lulu consented to go. |
She was taken over to the Elliott House, and |
quartered there until the, amiable Pauline 1
might conclude her search for more girls |
From what could be learned of this part OF
the woman's operations in this city, it is
surprising that she was permitted TO leave |
without a warning from the police. She \
attempted to induce from home no less than
TWENTY OR THIRTY GIRLS,
succeeding however in getting bat four or
five. A woman employed at the Mrs. Fell
der's referred to, accompanied the chase, and
from her a great deal of information was
obtained. Psuline's idea was to secure the
names Of any young girls who were supposed
TO be the least Bit fasi, and she Immediately
attempted to obtain an interview with such.
One of her exploits during the recent visit !
was trip to Tspp's bsgging factory at the
She was told that two sisters worked there
who might possibly be persuaded to go with
her, and late one evening she stood upon q
corner until the girls were all
for the day, aud then, singing out
her intended victims, she deliberately APP
preached the elds-sf the two nponsthe
street and attemptsd 10 get her away from
girl became very much
frightened, and left the vile creature
With great haste, hurrying On home, when
he told her parents what had occurred.
Search was Immediately instituted for Mad
lme Livingstone, but she could not be found. ,
Another of her intended victims was decent :
,irl living with a respectable mother on JET /
erson street, between First and Second. She
ecured an interview with this young woman,
md 90 completely turned her head with fine
promises that she agreed to join the party
nd go to Memphis. When her mother was
Informed of the girls intention to leave home
he became wild with fear and threatened 10
ill herself. This emotion upon her mothers
art was all that prevented the girl from
eginning life of shame under the direction
Madame Livingstone.
PRETTY ITALIAN =
An attempt was also made to procure a
retty Italian girl living with her father on .
farket street, near Preston. This young
'oman was too smart, however, and threat
ned Madame Livingston with the police if
be Importuned on her further. Upon the
light that the Memphis woman left for her
ONE with her troupe OF miserable girls, she
ad in the party young married woman,
hose husband is printer, and was, until
gently, employed in the composing rooms
the Courier Journal. He lately went 10
ork in Cincinnsti, however, and in bis abb
.nce it seems that his wife wandered from
he paths of virtue and rectitude. She was
Introduced to Livingstone, and speedily took
he painted cork under, promising to join
lie Memphis expedition, which she did, but
er.parents and brother. il seems, were advised
time, and they met her at the Louisville T..
I'D Nashville depot just as the train was
bout TO leave, and with the assistance OF
,uple of police officers wrested her from the
utches of Mime, Livingstone. She was :
fely taken.back home and locked up. One r
the girls who accompanied the party TO {
.emphis was
COUNTRY DASIsEL.
he had recently come to Louisville, and
I'd saved about enough money to return
,me, when Nine. Livingstone came along
ID persuaded her to go to Memphis. The
rgus reporter, who unearthed the foregoing
cts, was referred for further information
young woman who had just returned
pm the Memphis dive, whittier she had z
en- persuaded to go some time previous
Mme Livingstone's Louisville friend,
ary Prill. This woman told a terrible
Try of the outrages perpetrated in the vile :
adjustment. She says it is the most in. =
nous establishment of the character any
lere in the South. She also declares that
me Livingstone stands in with the chief r
police and judge of the City Court, and | !
Al nothing can be done with her as long as -
at ring exists. Mrs. Leonard, whose
lighter is now at the place, will send
Iective alter her this week, and will prob
" prosecute the Livingstone woman, If she
! obtain the necessary funds.
Higher Rents are Secured Il
Landlords who furnish their cistesns with -
Water Elevator and Purifying Pump, r,