St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-08
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tastes and inclinations of the fallen
women on First street to such an extent
that respectable customers soon ceased
to visit her place, and she was forced to
depend entirely for her support of her
business on the class of trade for which
she had shown such decided preference
in her PALMER days. Money is need
ful, however, to carry on business
and she soon found that payments were
often very uncertain Ill dealing with
ladies of easy virtue, and some time
ago she closed out her business at No.
81, and since then she has done some
private dressmaking at her house on
Ninth street, and still continues to do
work for one or two of the First street
establishments, but has been ordered
out of some of them on account Of
alleged dishonorable business practices.
The charges made against Nine. Her.
togs are that through her connection
with the houses she conceived the idea
of bettering herself financially and
building up her business at the same
time by
ACTING AS A PROCUhESS.
The girls which she furnished for a
house of prostitution would. of course,
need some expensive dresses and she
would furnish them on time, thus get
ting the girls in debt and placing them
to large extent in her power. Lately
things have begun to become known
which led respectable people who knew
her to distrust t.ie woman, and only a
few weeks ago the Harmonic society. of
which she had long been an active men,
ber, learned enough of her true charac-
ter to justify the directors in dropping
her name from the rolls, but when the
world knows her for the procuress and
betrayer of virtue and Innocence which
she is, it will be forever disgrace to
the community in which she lives if she
is not either warned to leave the city OF
suffer the punishment which just laws
purity and virtue of the young and in
nOcent.
There is no lack of proof of case after
case of her providing places in house
of prostitution for women from other
houses who were indebted to her for
dresses. About two years ago when the
authorities closed Ida Dorsey's colored
bagino on Second avenue south Madam
Hertogs took one of the inmates. a
quadroon girl who was indebted to her
for dressmaking, to a house where none
but white girls were allowed, and told
the madam that the girl was a Span
lard and recommended her as dancer
and girl who would sell a great deal
of beer. At about that time she is said
to have taken one of the young girls
employed in her millinary establish
ment on Fifth street to a house OF ill
fame on First street kept by Hattie
Mcbride at that time.
q TIE GIRL WAS YOUNG,
pretty and innocent-appearing and even
the hardened keeper of the place was
moved to pity and asked if the girl was
ION the turf and knew what she was
doing" The French madame assured
the woman that the girl was an old
timer and we'll acquainted with the
ways OF the world. The Mcbride
woman still doubted the statement, and
on asking the girl privately, discovered
that she was perfectly virtuous and in
nocent and that she had been led to
apply for a mission to the house by the
glowing picture of the ease and
luxury enjoyed there, as painted
by Madam Hertogs, who had
promised to trust her for any dresses
she might need. Another one of her
sewing girls, pretty, quiet young
thing who never did vicious act in
her life, as is attested by all who knew
her, was induced by this old fiend to
accompany her to some Of the palaces
of sin in st. Paul, where she went to
deliver work. The girl went several
times, and was finally induced to drink
heartily in house on Jackson street
and then was prevailed upon to stay
over night. The poor girl awoke in
the morning to realize that she was
ruined. She remained in the house
week, but finally her 2.
GOOD QUALITIES TRIUMPHED 3le
over the influences that were brought to
bear upon her, and she returned to
Minneapolis and later sought employ
ment in La Crosse.
The latest exploit of this really re-
markable woman. was the securing for
an Infamous den in Butte, Mont, of
four girls from one Of the houses on
First street.
1t was on Saturday last during the
absence of Hattie Brush, the prophet
ress of the place, that Madame Hertogs
went to 207 First street south and asked
the girls if they would like to go to
Butte, Mont. She represented to
them that money was very
plentiful there, that they could
son amass fortune and told seductive
tales of the luxury and gayety of life in
the mountain towns. Some of the girls
thought they would like to go if they
were only able to, but as they were in
debt and had no money to buy tickets
they could not. She, however, told
them that the landlady for whose house