The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-31
Judge Hudspeth Directs
Superintendent Smith
to Close Notorious
Places.
He REFERS TO BACK-R00M RESORTS,
The Notorious Minnie Schmidt
Sentenced to One Year at
Hard Labor,

Minnie Schmidt, who was indicted on q
charge of larceny from the person, pre-
ferred by Joseph Frank, Belgian sailor,
was found guilty in the Court of Special
Sessions this morning and sentenced to
one year at hard labor in the Peniten-
tiary. Minnie Schmidt. who hangs out
in saloons of i'll repute in the lower sec
tion OF the city with such notorious
characters as ''Babe'' Estelle and Dottie
HilIman. relieved Frank of gold watch
in either McAuliff's or Looney's saloons
at Hudson and Essex streets. The Of
fence was committed on March TO- The
prisoner and .'Dottie" Hillman. her ac-
complice, were arrested about one week
after the theft was committed, by De-
tective- Dalton. Frank Testified that
Minnie Schmidt induced her to enter
McAuliffe's saloon. They entered a rear
room, where "Dottie" Htllman sat in
half drunken condition. Several rounds
of drinks were ordered. and then Mn
ME playfully slipped up in Franks lap.
TIE SAILOR ON SHORE.
A short time afterwards Frank suggest
ed that they retire to hotel OF Iii repuLe
on Hudson street, but the girl refused.
and asked TO see his watch. Frank, be-
lieving her to be the Droprletress OF the
saloon, let her have it. "Minnie' sud-
denly recoIlected that she had business at
the Red Star dock and made her ESCAPE.
Detective Dalton testified as TO the
woman's bad character, and in descrth-
ing the saloeDs which are dens and which
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their business in an orderly manner,
stirred up the ire of Ju ge Hudspetn,
who, ipterrupting him during the testi-
mony, condemned the saloons as dens.
ine sir, when placed upon the witness
stand lied in every particular, and on half
a dozen occasions contradIcted h.rself.
The Court declared her guilty anu lpl-
posed the penalty stated above.
JUDGE HUDsPETH AROUSED.
In sentencing the prisoner, tt q Court
said: 'It the Court had the power
can assure you that this woman
Here she is notorious chrAoter and three
years ago she was an operator, carr In.
her own livlihood. No she hangs out AZ
these dens which are prolofic wife crime.
Ii is just such women as she. who hang
around the lower section of the oiLy and
rob sailors. They are menace TO society
They have no shame. They do not know
what morality is. They have no
parents, no friends. These sal>
oons encourage vice and crime,
These women solicit on the straers and
the proprieters of those saloons knowiug
them to be prostitutes allow them to stay
about their pace of business. 1 will inn
pose the seyerest penalty upon all of
them. and I say to the proprietors of such
saloons that they want TO beware. Ii
any of them come befose me
can assure them that their
punishment will be the EXTREMIST
I am determined to break up such re-
sorts, and want Detective Dalton TO In
form Superintendent of Police Smith
that he should close those places. and IL
he does not do it, bench warrants will be-
issued for the arrest of the men. Suca
resorts must and will be broken up."
Counsellor Simpson has been detained
to defend Dottie Hillman.