The evening world., 1894-04-05
FRONT DOOR
WIDE OPEN.
fCorrnu,d tram First Tti1s \

urlnkS puTcnHseN, ana Slcn scraps OF tne
transactions within as would be service
able as evidence of the character OF the
place.
The witness was led over the story
Wilson and Edgar A. whitney two other
Society agents, to the house 81 Eldridge
street, "A few doors from the police sta
tion, the night Of Sept. q, 1899, when they
secured the evidence ON which Capt.
Dcvery was indicted for permitting the
house to continue It's unlawful traffic.
The sale of beer to the visitors was
about the only evidence of the character
Of the house obtained on this visit, and
Wishart admitted that he did not in
form the police nor enter n complaint
against the place, and that satisfied
Col. James.
Front Door Was Wide Open.
Mr.. Weeks got Wishart to say that be-
tween, Sept. 23 and Nov. 8 last he had
visited at least twenty-five resorts in
Capt. Devery's precinct, and that or
three different visits to the place 81
Eldridgc street he found the front door
might have entered had it ever occurred
to his innocent mind that the law was
being broken in the place.
John H.. Lemon, another OF the Park
hurst agents, and one of the officers who
were rudely treated by a gang OF toughs
In Capt. Devery's precinct. was the next
witness. lie lives at lS2 East One Hun
dred and Twenty-third street, and has
been an agent OF the Society for the Pre-
vention of Crime since May last.
He related that he visited 81 Eldridge
street May q with u man named Franks.
A colored man admitted them.
7 asked If the girls were In" %contin-
ven in and found nine young women
Grace Welch receiving the money. on
the door-plate | had noticed the name
'Nordle.,, but one of the girls old me the
madame's name was Grace WEIGH"
Iannnn ~ ~ N lntni1a1 rpnttnf ne Tho
Incidents of the visit. 1t left no room
for doubt regarding the character of
the place. even II 1t had not already been
judicially classified by the conviction of
on Blackwells Island.
There were many subsequent visits to
the house, and entrance was as easy as
to any hotel or public barroom.
O one visit one OF the young men
wanted to play on the piano. but Grace
Welch wouldn't let him because she said
her that she must be more quiet" said
the witness
Such Testimony Wasn't Allowed
Col. James objected vociferously to
the admlttance OF this testimony. and
Justice O'Brien promptly struck 1t out
as hearsny. The same fate befell Len
mons statement that he visited the Es-
out a warrant for the arrest OF Grace
Welch and prosecuted her till she was
convicted Nov. 10. 1893. and fined $50.
Under cross-examination Lemon said
he was reared in Youngstown, o., where
he was manager of the Miller House.
He was in Youngstown TIL ten .eyars
ago. In 1884 he came to New York and
has been n detective fourteen years eX-
cept that for II time he had a bakery at
1897 Lexington avenue this city.
Col. James asked Lemon to describe the
character OF his detective work:
IL never took a divorce case In m life.
My work was shadowlng, loking up char
acters and like that. have worked in
ohio. Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Loulsi-
ana and other States. My first employ
ment as n detective against women was
given me by Or. Parkhurst's Society,"
"Oh. then prior to your engagement
by Or. Parkhurst's Society you confined
CoI, James, With a sheer.
Lemon admitted that he had been
Obliged to use many aliases and to de-
ceive people about his business. He
Society, and receives $50 n week and all
expenses.
Commissioner MncLcnn Interested
Police Commissioner MacLean, the
thorn In the side Of the Tammany police
tiger. stole into the court chamber at
noon. took n rear seat, made himself as
inconspiCuous as possible md listened
attentatively to the testimony.
col. James pursued a line of inquiry
that implied that Witness Lemon had
@yercharged the Society in his expense
Bill, and asked questions as II the stool
pigeon Franks" had turned against
Lemon and was posting" Capt. De
very's lawyers on the methods OF the
witness.
Nov don't YOU remember that
'Franks's' name was Benjamin Etten-
burg asked Col. James. after trying
In vain to get anything more than
from the witness,
Lemon laughed and said that was one
of the names Franks had been known
by, but added that DR.. Parkhurst intro
duced Franks to him as "Mr. Franks
ga splendid memory" but Col. James
succeeded in tangling him up inextric-
ably about most any events except the
visits to Grace Welch's house.
The old lawyer concluded his cross
examination by asking lemon if he had
fySr S's Street M With H 1s%%Gs W &! 30 E ana
Franks. Lemon sal mo- emphati-
cally, and then, Col. James asked:
Didn't You visit that house with Will
Mrs. Jacobs sit on YOU lap; and didn't
she refuse, and didn't her husband OBJ
Ject' and didn't a fight cnsue. and didn't
you p%t our hnser broken in the fght?.'
ms question, down to the last. Then
he amended by saving that he remem-
nSSre S a tiEht In Fourth street on one
@Jaco6s's, nor about his request to a
married woman to sit In his lap.
w went into a coffee saloon. and
one of the girl walters came over and
Kissed me-" Lemon was relating, when
Col James, exclaimed interrogat ingly:
Lemon hlushcd ard everybody in court
SMILED Leman said n man struck the
ElrI She said IL was the man who
lived with her. Wilson. on some one,
Fought this man on the stoop, col
James pressed his question and Lemon
said Confusedly
Ihat was I'm a drinking house, but
ms far as asking q married. woman RI
sit on my lap, | never did it,"