Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-19
''FOR lBDIES. !"
SALOON ATTACHMENTS THAT ARE A
PUBLIC CALAMITY.
Katie Mautz' Downfan-Her Attempt
at Suicide-Arrest of the Al
legged Betrayer.

On Tuesday Otto Kaufman called at the
police station and told Chief of Police Lee
that he had detected his sister in-law, Katie
Mautz, in the act of taking a dose of car
bolic acid. He succeeded in preventing her
from getting the fluid into her mouth,
however, and demanding an explanation,
she admitted to him that she had been be-
trayed by q young man named Benjamin
F. Shields, printer employed at the State
Printing Office,
Ia relating her story she referred Incl
dentaliy TO a recent asssult made by Shields
upon one Frank Crosby. She also told
Kaufman that doctor of this city had
performed criminal operation upon her
successfully, after another CDR. Pendery)
hal failed.
SHIELDS ARRESTED.
Chief Lee at once caused warrant to be
issued for the arrest of Shields for the as
ssult upon Crosby, and the girl was sent
for. She responded to the call, accom-
panied By her mother, and told her story
in her own way. Chief Lee then decided
to also charge Shields with seduction, and
when the Young man was brought in yes
terday both charges-assault with deadly
weapon and seduction-were entered
against hin. He was afterward released on
q $1,000 bond, with w. S. Shields and
]. II. Herman as sureties.
PRIVATE ENTRANCES FOR LADIES
From all that can be learned about the
case, it appears to be one of the ordinary,
every day sort, that are becoming so COM
mon as scarcely TO excite comment. 1t is
the old story of parents allowing their
daughters to 90 oat at night with young
villains who have no other purpose in life
than to be ever on the lookout for weak
minded girls whom they may lead estray.
This is more easily accomplished nova
days than ever before by means of the
back-rooms-fittedu up in connection with
certain class Of drinking saloons-'for Ia
dies" Il IS said that Katie Meutz' downfall
is directly attributable to the fact that
she had allowed herself TO be led into
these places by the creature whom she
charges with her ruin.
These ladies entrances" are pitfalls of
infamy, and they are becoming entirely too
numerous in this city for the good of the
community. Girls are inveigled into them
and piled With liquor until they lose all
power OF self control, which, however,
of shame. in Oakland, year ago,
THESE POLLUTED PLACES
Because such public nuisance as to cause
an upheaval that shook more than ore
circle of society to its foundation. They
have been increasing in numbers in this
city, and in proportion to this increase has
the ruin Of young girls kept pace. 1t has
been mystery to many citizens who IN
derstood The character OF these dens and
the purposes for which they were main
tanned, how their proprietors could obtain
licenses 10 carry on the infamous business.
But they have fourished like so many
green bay trees, and from their back doors
nightly 90 forth stupe6ed, Inflated women
to debauchery and ruin. There are
creatures called men in this, as in
other communities, passing as ordinary
citizens, compared to whom the de-
based wretches who live off the charity
of fallen women are princes. This is the
class who devote their leisure hours 10
searching for victims for the ladies en-
trance" departments of certain dram-shops.
Tae case of Katie Mautz has afforded an
opportunity to throw the light in upon
these pes.-holes of the community, and
Chief Lee declares that the police depart
ment must henceforth take cognizance of
their existence. 1t is TO be hoped that
when the Mautz-Shields case comes to be
investigated in the Courts some facts may
be brought to light that will enable the
class of places referred 10 to be painted in
their true colors, that fathers and mothers
may know more about one of the chief
dangers that beset the paths of their sons
and daughters.