St. Paul daily globe., 1894-03-04
A SHOWER OF THE QUEER
IS MEAT TIE Police SUSPECT LIE
COIN Or BEING.
THE POLICE RAID A HOUSE.

Brother OF a FourteeE-Ye Year-OiG
Girl Who " as ia the Habit of
Meeting Lincoln There Causes
the Raid - Lincoln Said to
Belong TO a Gang in Minae-
apoIis
The police last evening raided the
hCu e at 45l Fulton street ana arrested
three women. gil and four men. The
raid was made on complaint Of George
r Tilbury, he informing the police Old
cials yesterday that his sister. Lulu Ill
blry, fourteen years Old, was in the
habit of visiting the house 10 meet
man from Minneapolis. From letters
lie had intercepted between the Mime
apoiitaG and his sister. he was satisfied
his sister intended 10 run away 70 Cal
cago with the fellow from Minneapolis.
4 warrant was procured yesterday
afternoon, and al s O'clock last evening
Lieut.. Bahe. Sergeant Zirklebach, De
tectiFes MeGuiggan ana Werrick and q
detail of six patroimen from the central
station marched cut 10 make The raid.
An hour laieI the patrol wagon was
called to the scene, ana eight persons in
the house were brought TO the central
station The greatest secrecy was OBJ
s-rYed by the police concerning the
arrests, ana a GLOBE reporter, who
happened into the station at the time
the parties were booking, was put out
by patrolman at the order Of Capt
SchweitZer.
The names OF none of the women or
men who were in the house could be
learned from the officers, but TilburY
said the Minneapolis man. who Was IL
room with his sister when the house
was pulled. was B. T. Lincoln. The
woman who kept the house he said he
did not know. but said she had formerly
kept an assiEnaIion house in the small
brick building adjoining police head
quarters on West Third street. His
sister Lulu. he said, had been quite in
innate with daughter of the woman
who kept the place, and frequently
visited the house on Fulton street. so
numerous were her visits 10 the Fulton
street house that lie became suspicious,
and, upon Investigation. learned the
reason for the frequent visits Of his
sister TO the place.
From intercepted letters be learned
that she was in the habit of meeting the
young man answering 10 the name OF T.
B. Lincoln there for no good purpose.
He notified the police, and the arrests
Of Lincoln, the woman who kept the
house, two other females and Lulu Til
bury. his sister, followed.
IlibGry said the reason the police
were SO secret about the arrests was
owing 10 tip he had given them about
Lincoln. The man. he said. was one OF
gang with headquarters in Minneapo--
lis, and the room which Lincoln occn-
pied in that city was filled with goods
which had been stolen In fact. Tilbury
SAID, the detectives were of the opinluni
that Lincoln was engaged in passing
counterfeit money, but they did nor
want anything said about this until
they had time 10 investigate.
Lincoln. who is a well-dressed young
man about twenty-eight years old, was
interviewed by Capt. Schweiizer and.
the detectives after his arrest for a
couple of hours. and then given pri-
vate cell removed from the other pris-
oners.
Lulu Tilbury, who was found IN the
same room with Lincoln when the house
was raided, is a preIty-lookInE miss,
and. when at the station. seemed not al
all concerned. She is not yet fourteen
years old, ana. although the woman who
kept the house told The police the girl
had never been in the place before. her
brother says he can prove by letters in
his possession that she has been fire.
Quent visitor al the place.
4 gentleman who lives in the vicinity
said the house had been running for the
past two years, and was a disgrace 10
the neighboThood-