The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-10-28
A WICKED WOMAN.
Under the Guise Of a Re.
spectacle Lodging House
She Is
Conducting One of the Boldest
Dens OF Assignation
in the Bity.

The BAzoo had occasion a few DAYS ago
20 call attention 10 the existence in the
very heart of the city, Of fully fedged
ass gnstion house. For reasons atsihat
time best kn Dwn to the reporter, names and
locality were suppressed but pointers suffi-
Gent were given to the police to enable
blind man to "cstch on" Nd arrests fol-
lowed, however, in that quarter, although
not day passed but impecuuious street
walkers and unfortunate tramps were a..
rested. Day by day the infamous woman
who conducts an establishment which she
labels FURNISHED Rooms for Ladies and
Gentlemen" has grown holder. Daily has
it been hersldei upon the street
that you Ican get grip
il you only put in your application in time
to this woman, who has 80 far forgotten the
since discarded by common courtezans.
The BAzoo no longer has any hesitancy
in concesling the name Of the woman or
the locality Of the den where she trans
acts her nefar;ous business. She is
but . common prostitute, and hence her
name is of little consequence. She
holds forth In Ri!ey's block,
in the new addition recently constructed to
that building, and il is said that several
high toned gentlemen" have rooms there,
while two or three "ladies" occasionally
call there to see their 'best fellows" This
is house of prostitution on Isrxe scale,
conducted opeoly and otcriously, and in
defiance of all Jaw The police officers,
who evidently have a dispt sit:o to do
their duty, claim that they dare not
pull this deo, because they would be un-
able TO make out case against the in
mates.
II may not be gene rally known, but it is
neverth les fact, that there is in the en-
ploy of the CITY an officer assigned 10 "spe.
cial duty" II he has any regard VII, tever
for the trust con6ded 10 him, he ought to
look after this den OF iniquity. II may be
difficult to establish this dive as q house of
prostitution, because there are
so many evidences of responsibility ssr-
rounding il, but such it is aud theevidence
can soon be sdduced TO prove this ssser-
ton, If the officers will but give the matter
their attention.
II will be remembered that some time
ago one Edith Thompson, . notorious
prostitute, rented the old Lin
dell hotel, where she conduct
ed IN open and notorious house of
prostitution and defied the authorities to
arrest her, because she was in possession of
q hotel license. The BAzoo az that time
insisted that no house of prostitution, bad
enough in itself, should be Conducted un-
der another name, and public sentiment
wss so aroused that the off sers of the Law
were compelled to pull the shameless in
mates of the Lindell hotel as il then
existed and the rancho was broken up.
A house of prostitution is bad enough ut
best, and will probably exist under some
name to the end Of time, but by all that ia
pure and holy let it be called by its right
name, aud lie. no, the painted harlot, be-
cause she chances to be little better dress
ed than her I'm oitunaie sister, escape pun
ishmeni.
The women, poor, degraded outcasts,
while locked upon with loathing and scorn,
are yet objects of pity, but what shall be
said OF the pimp, that nameless object for
whom there Is no ansthema t 70 pronounce
ed, no hell too deep. Presenting the
features OF a God-given countenance, all
that is noble end pure and yet possessing
the instincts of the Shiny serpent, such q
reptile is the pimp, and upon close inves.i-
CATION nest of them may be found bud.
died together and trsilin0 their loathsoms
bodies over one another in the building
heretofore mentioned.
The BAzoo viii have more to say on this
subject, later.