St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-04
ELLIOT MUST TALK.
The Grand Jury Takes Cognizanc
Of Council POODLE Charges.

The Grand Jury Takes Cognizance
of Council Doodle Charges.
Owners of business blocks where dis
safe retreat are not the only persons
whose cases and actions will be con-
sidered by the grand jury. Probably no
one in the city, with the exception of
the aldermen themselves, is satisfied
with the, outcome of the recent inveSti-
CATION in the city council. Nothing was
then proven nor authoritatively denied.
But now the grand jury proposes to
know just what was in that matter, and,
unlike the council committee, it has
power to send for persons and papers
and to compel unwilling witnesses to
testify. Of course there is no specific
charge against any one connected with
that affair, but the grand jury
will sift the matter and find in
dictments, or find none, as a
thorough examination of all phases of
the matter may require. Yesterday
Sheriff Eye received Instructions from
County Attorney Jamison to subpoe ma
E. ID. johnson. Emerson Cole, A. j. Ell
lott, who refused to go before the cOun-
ell committee to tell what he knows, T.
S. Varnum and r. D. Strong, the two
latter reporters on the Times, which
newspaper made the charges of Doodle.
AS outlined yesterday in the GLOBE,
the grand jury is looking into the rent
ing of rooms, by block owners, to wo-
men of ill-repute. Ralph Rees, who
owns the building where the Poets
lived. was under consideration of that
august body yesterday, and it is almost
certainty that an Indictment will be
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building of Third avenue north, where
the Poets were, Rees owns block on
Hennepin avenue, opposite the city
hall, the upper floors of which
are said to have been used for immoral
purposes The Hennepin avenue
place has been generally spoken of as a
tough resort. Mrs. Ada Peet, who rents
from Rees and for whom he went bail
in the municipal court the other day, IS
also under consideration by the grand
jury. 1t is reported that Rees has said
he purposes to rent his property to
whomsoever he pleases and that he will
have the officer who raided Mrs. Peet's
place removed from the force. Serg-
cant Kirkham made the raid, and he
says that he has seen young girls,
daughters of well-to-do and respectable
people, 20 to the place, stay there for
Rees has this to say in his own behalf:
II do not think that | am getting al
together fair deal in this matter. The
police are down on me because went
bail for the woman who rented part of
my property. In the first place the
statement that the rooms at 200 Henne
pin avenue are being run in disor-
derby manner is lie. for the simple
reason that they have been va
cant for six months. In regard to 221
Washington, [ eXacted promise from
the woman, who is my tenant, that no
women sh ould be allowed there, and l
concluded that she would keep her word.
The methods OF the police in working
up the charge were diSreputable. A
plain-clothes policeman took room
there, and then he sneaked up woman
on the quiet, having previously ar
ranged raid with Sergeant Kirkham.
This woman is decoy of the latter's,
and when he gets it in for anybody, he
uses her and a plain-clOthes officer to
commit crime in order to convict the
party he has grudge against. All [
ask is fair deal. but suppose l won't
get 1t so long as the police are down on
me for standing by a helpless woman"
Several indictments were found yes
terday against persons now in the
jail, and the grand jury adjourned at
noon for the day.