The Washington times., 1895-06-10
Men and Women in Social Circles
Who Violate the Law.
DETECTIVE PRoCToR's QUEST
A Number VIII Be Summoned TO the
District Attorneys Office Before
Their Prosecution Under the Ed
munds ActIs Instances
That Have Come Be foreLa w Officers

More revelations arising from the action
of the police under the provisions of the
now famous Edmunds law are looked for
during the next few days. Detective Proc
tor, of Inspector Hollinberger's staff of
headquarters men, has started out in
new quarter to get evidence in those cases
which are a violation of the law forbidding
unmarried couples living together as man
and wife
Heretofore the police have waged war
mainly on the poor negroes wbolive in the
congested byways or in novels upon the
clty's commons. Detective Proctor, know
ing that the law applies to aIl-the rich
as well as the poor, the white as well as
the colo red-has selected several cases
for investigation and perhaps prosecution,
in which the offenders maintain q high
grade OF Responsibility in their outer lives,
while within, their morality is at just as
low an ebb as any that ever existed in
the odoriferous back alley shanty or shack.
the odoriferous back alley shanty or shack.
Among the cases in the hands of the
detective is that of Pension Office
official who is said to be living a dual
existence with a fair but frail female
department clerk The wife of the official
lives in Northeast Washington, and will,
it is said, be willing witness as to her
husbands iufidelity.
LADY CLERKS COMPLAINED.
Complaint against him, it is understood,
wasmade by several lady clerks who object
to the demoraliziDg influence engendered
by the alleged open immortality of the pair,
whose names are in possession of Mr..
Proctor.
in Alexander Island outlaw race track
circles He is said to be living openly
in a highly respectable quarter OF the
northwest with a woman who once
conducted an immoral house in the dark
section of the city The complainant in
this case states that the relations of this
couple are having generally demoralizing
effect in the neighborhood in which they
reside.
a female clerk in d government department.
They rent communicating rooms in a
fashionable boarding house, 1t is said.
Among the other cases that will be
brought to the attention of the police is
that of female clerk in the Interior De-
partment who, it is alleged, for years
has violated the law by sustaining inn
proper relations with man who is chief
of one of the sections in that department..
Then there is a business man whose
establishment is quite pretentious, over
looking the principal tforoughfare of the
city, who, for years past, has done openly
and is still doing just what the Edmunds
law forbids.
HER HUSBAND AWAY.
In West Washington, there is a young
man, quite prominent in his profession,
who has an establishment presided over
by married woman, whose husband, COM
mon report says, is "down East" where
he is likely To remain. Still another case
is that Of man Of wealth, who maintains
an establishment on Ninth street which
is equivalent to an open defiance Of the
Edmunds' law.
On G street is still another case, the
man being wellto-do, while the woman
has a husband living In New York. The
city is said to be full of such cases, aud
il the police take the matter Ia hand the
results will be more startling than those
which followed the recent alley investiga-
tions.
Som of these offenders have been
notified to appear in District Attorney
Birney's office tomorrow for exami-
nation preceding the possible issuance of
warrants for their arrest and trial.
MORECOLOREDo OFFENDERS
Several violators of the Edmunds act
were arrested by the police of precincts
Nos. 8, and at an early hour yesterday
morning The Third precinct police
locked up John Harris aud Nettie GARRETT,
John Boardley and Maria Harris, all
colored; the Fifth precinct, Benjamin
I4usky, white, and Eliza Harvey and Frank
Harvey aud Agnes Washington, colored,
and the Eighth precinct, James Williams
and Carrie Williams, coIored