Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-20
MAYNARD GIRLS.
A warning to PARENTS to Keep a Close
watch Upon Their Children.

Chicago Times: A scene was enacted last
night At the Harrison street station 20 which
every father who has adaughter should have
been a witness. Though it would have caused
every drop of honest blood 10 boil with in
dignatiop, it would have served as q useful
lesson 10 those fathers who allow their dsugh-
terra to go out at night with young society
dudes, whose sole object in keeping company
with pure girls is, if possible, to debauch
them. The hour was midnight, when two
young girls, who we're evidently pure and to
whom such sights were new, were brought
into the station. They were arrested from
one of the most dangerous an d-iniquitans
places in Chicago. an alleged summer-garden
on Wabash avenue, known as the Pavilion.
The charge against them was of being drunk
and disorderly, and, ia truth, the charge
was not ~groundless. The girls, perhaps, for
the first time in their lives beheld the in
side OF a police station, and their grief and
terror were ssful to behold. They became
hysterical, and, throwing themselves upon
their knees, besought Lieut.. Laughlin 10 al
low them 10 60 home and not lock them up.
The lieutenant, than whom there is not a
kinder-hearted man in Chicago, was visibly
moved. His experienced eye told him that
the girls were not bad, and he knew that 10
imprison such as they among the vile women,
who are usually the habitues of q police sta
ton, would be a terrible thing. The girls
told a piliful story. Tney lived with their
parents on Oak street, ene OF the most re-
spectacle ~thoroughfares on the North Side.
They had been invited out by two young
men for the purpose of having q good
time" Their parents we're informed that
they were going to the thestef, and entering
q carriage they started out for their sgood
time" The evening vas spent in drinking
wine and disposing Of a fine supper at 3
questionable resort on the South SIDE. The
gentlemen" friends Of the young girls then
| took them to the Pavilion, which, despite the
| orders of Superintendent Doyle, Is frequented
| almost e~xclusively By disreputsble women
and their male companions. They WERE
| somewhat boisterous on the street, on &C
| count of which they were made prisoner
| Why their dude companions we're not ar
| rested instead of the poor girls being made
10 suffer the entire penalty lie something moi
| explained by Officer McGrsth, who made the
arrest. The trembling, terror stricken girls
were cared for by Lieut. Laughlin, who re.
| fused to have them booked, and told them be
| did not want them TO even give their names
| They were afterw ard sent home In care of an
| officer aud left 10 make their explanations to
| their sorrowful parenfs. While they vert
| vet al the station the Two velI-drxssed fops,
who were the rel cause OF the eirls trou-
| bles, called and asked If they could get them
| released. Lieut. Laughlin could scarcely
| control il Indignation at their Impotence
aYou miserable dudes," he exclaimed
"it's you sho ought to be locked up instead
| of these poor siris."
awe are friends Of the young ladies'" be.
| gan one Of the dudes.
aNo, you'sen not their friends ahoty answer.