Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10

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the girls are kept, except as they
come down to dance. It's utterly
impossible for the girls to leave
the upper story of this house and
go down and out of it without
running the gauntlet of the keep
er's room and through the bar
room and dance hall and out,
undergoing the surveillance Of two
sides of the house before they can
escape in any possible way to the
street"
Having given this typical
picture of a Northern Wisconsin
den, the speaker demonstrated
that there are some few ruling
individuals who control the whole
traffic. While the court records
showed Mary, Or Mollie, or
Emma Somebody as ostensible
owner, little investigation proved
that Jack Mahoney, of Ashland,
who was recently murdered,
Charles LeClaire, of Hurley; Bill
Diamond, of Marinette, and Press
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Wade, of Washburn, were the
four notorious capitalists in crime.
Bill Diamond is stated to be worth
all the way from 100000 to
81 100000. He has retired from
business and lives in fine style in
Marinette. His name appears
more than that of anybody else
in the court records as holder of
mortgages and lender of money.
H. 0. Fairchilds, formerly speaker
Of the House of Representatives,
who wrote letter to a Milwaukee
paper prosecuting attorney of
that district, who publicly denied
the horrors of Diamonds den,
had his property mortgaged to
the identical Bill Diamond. DR..
Bushnell saw the telephone wires
way off in the woods, connecting
the dens and the livery stables, so
as to prevent the escape of the
inmates by vehicles.
The lecturer then proceeded to
demonstrate that procurers for
Hugh Doyle's dens were about
the neighborhood of Green Bay
while she was in that region.
Two girls from Neenah while on a
visit to Green Bay were accosted
in the streets by Sid. Barlow, of
Appleton, a procurer. The girls
refused to go with him. Then
theyEwere arrested for street walk
ing, fined SIS and costs by Justice
Grignon and given twenty-four
hours to leave town. Barlow paid
the fines and the chief Of police
tookl.llthe girls to the depot and
saw them off in BartoW's COM
pany. On the train two ladies of
the w. c. T. u, who returned
from a convention at Stevens
Point, found that Barlow had five
or six girls with him. He refused
to give up the two girls indicated,
stating that he had bought them
from the chief of police for SIS
apiece. DR.. Bushnell subsequent
ly found the girls in den at
Merrill. They were in the usual
short dresses, their other clothing
having been taken from them.
A Mrs. Hunter or Mrs. Johnson
came to Chicago and persuaded
two of the chambermaids in a
second-class hotel to follow her to
a den at Wausau. One day the
deluded girls managed to escape
but they were captured by the
chief Of police and most brutally
pounded while the official stood
by. A warrant was sworn out for
the arrest of the woman, but be-
fore it could be served the girl
most mercilessly pounded was
taken away in hack during the
night. The inmates of the den
believe that she has been foully
dealt with. The other girl finally
managed to escape and DR..
Bushnell located her, but the girl
begged most pitifully to conceal
her whereabouts for fear that she
would be taken back to the den.
/ Her secret was kept, as. we'll as