St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-06

Around.
A story full of sensational details
came to light last night by the arrest
and Judgment at the central lookup of
Jennie Wilson, married woman, whose
husband is named Tom Wilson. She
came to Crookston from Winnipeg, ac-
companied by her husband to that
point. She left Winnipeg Sunday night.
After parting with her husband at
Crookston, she came on alone TO Mime
apols, arriving here on Monday night.
She went to the Grand hotel, 20 Second
street north, and then, desiring to get
her trunk, took hack to the union de-
pot. Instead of driving her back to
the hotel. she says that the driver
took her to house of ill-fame. She
protested that he was not taking her to
the right place, but she says he Insisted
that he was. Pretty soon he told her
that she had arrived at her proper
destination, which subsequent develop
mentS proved to be a bagniO kept bv
Nettie Dean, at 21S Eleventh avenue
south. Mrs. Wilson described the
madam as a large, good-looking woman,
with light hair. Here, she says, she
was invited into the house, the charac-
ter OF which she claims she was igno-
rant of. She declares that the inmates
tried to force her to occupy apartments
with men. but that she declined stead
lastly to do so. From Monday night
until last night war was waged
against her to lead her astray, but she
pluckily held her own until last night,
when she declares she was forced out
into the rain with slippers only on her
feet. She was taken i'll charge by Off
GERS Powers and Siverling and taken to
the lookup, charged with being drunk.
Such is the story she told the officers
there last night. She also informed
them that she was enceinte, and
then came GU series of spasms that
were frightful to witness, superinduced
probably by the trials she had under
gone, supplemented by exposure to the
rain in her condition of maternity.
During her rawlings she spoke constantly
of Tom Wilson, her husband, and
seemed to fear that he would find out
that she had been an inmate of a house
of ill-fame, and, though unwillingly,
seemed to dread that he would mis-
judge her.
If the woman's side of the story is
true, the hackman, whose name was
not learned, and Nettie Dean may both
become liable for very serious Otfense.
The GLOBE reporter went to Nettie
Deans place in order to get both sides
of the story. She said that it was true
answering her description, had
come there Monday night with
trunk and desired to board
there. Nettie Dean stated that she
paid the hack driver So at the woman's
request. Jennie Wilson said that the
people in Nettie Deans place got her
intoxicated, hoping thereby to carry
their ends more easily. This Nettie
Dean declared t0 be untrue, but said
that the woman herself used to go out
before breakfast aud get drunk, and
that she would return with large bot
tie of whisky. Nettie Dean said further,
that instead of encouraging Mrs. Wilson
to drink, she tried to dissuade her from
doing SO. and further, that some of her
girls poured out about half of the
liquor and filled up the flask with water
Ill hopes of getting her out Of her in
toXicated state. At last, Nettie Dean
says, Jennie, as she called her, became
SO uprOariouS and acted so Queerly
that she thought it best to have
the police remove her, thinking
that she was mentally deranged. She
stated that she did not know that the
woman was i'll an interesting condition,
and denied that any attempt was made
to force men upon her. She said that
the woman told her that she could get
all the liquor she wanted at the Grand
hotel, and that her reason for leaving
the place was owing to the fact that the
wife of the proprietor was jealous of her
because she was too gay with her hus-
band.
Here are the two stories. The police
officers are inclined to believe, however,
that the woman has told the truth.
Anyway, it would seem that the mayor
ought to fully investigate this matter,
and if the wrong claimed has been COM
mitted, the guilty parties should be
made to suffer.