The record-union., 1896-01-03
BOSQUET MUST STAND Ills TRIAL.
His Good Clothes and Diamonds Are
No Protection.
Judge Catlin Decides That He Was
Properly Held by the
Police Court.

Police Court.
Eugene Bosquet, the dapper little fell
low who cut quite swell here for the
past year or so, especially among the
lower L-street French colony. did not
leave Judge Catlin's court yesterday
with the smiles and debonnafr style he
wore when he took his seat before the
bar Of justice as a solicitor for the ben
efits of the habeas corpus act
Judge Catlin held that the commit
ment under which he was held for trial
did show probable cause why jury
should pass on the charge made
against him.
Bosquet was recently com mitted for
trial on the felony charge of permitting
his wife to be an inmate of house of
ilI-fame. He is a sleek, we'll dressed,
prosperous looking fellow, and when
first arrested on charge of vagrancy
several prominent citizens used their
influence in an effort TO have him re-
leased Subsequently it was learned
that the woman with whom he was
supposed to be consorting was his wife,
and then the more serious charge was
placed against him, and he was exam
ined and held for trial.
- COuE5el IOT the peIlIlOneI,
said the latter's discharge was asked
for on several grounds. One was that
there was no probable cause of action,
and another was that the section of the
code under which the prosecution was
acting was unconstitutional, in that it
was unreasonable. The law provides
that a man shall not place his wife in a
house of ill-fame, procure others to do
nor paT-f71if her n 1ar1air in C1Ioh
place.
Mr.. Hart then read the testimony ad-
duced at Bosquets preliminary exam
ination, at which was introduced a
certified copy of portion of the rec
ords of Los Angeles County showing
that BosCuet was married there last
July to Lucy Teller. The testimony also
showed that in the den on L street ad-
joining that occupied by Mrs. Bosquet
also resided a sister of Bosquet, en-
gagged in the same line of merchandis-
Ing as the other.
It further appeared from the testi-
mony that Bosquet maintained house
on N street, between Third and Fourth,
where several women from L street
visited at various times. Mrs. Bosquet
also went back and forth between the
house and the crib" on L street where
she conducted her business at night.
The reading of the testimony con-
sumed upward of an hour and half, at
the conclusion of which Mr.. Hart ad-
dressed the court at length in support
of the prisoners petition to be dis
charged on the ground that the prose-
cution had no good cause of complaint.
He claimed the evidence did not show
probable cause for holding Bosquet for
u
maintain the action, that Bosquet and
the woman must be man and wife; that
the latter occupied a house Of prosti-
tuition, and that she was there by the
permission and with the connivance of
her husband.
Mr.. Hart admitted that the proof of
marriage was strong, but denied that
either of the other alleged facts had
been proven. No witness, he said, had
shown that the house in which the
woman lived was one of prostitution.
They said it was, but counsel held that
it was the province of only the magis-
trate to determine that point from evil
dence introduced to show the character
of the house. He cited decision in
South Carolina case, in which the court
held that "the residence of one un-
chaste woman, or prostitute, did not
constitute a bawdy-house, which he
claimed to be synonymous with a house
of ill-fame."
Counsel also argued that there was no
testimony to show that Mrs. Bosquet
occupied the L-street house by his con-
sent. Even if that fact had been proven,
such a law was invalid because it in
terfered with the liberty of a person
to do that which he had a right to do
If he so wished.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Harts ar
gument District Attorney Ryan pre-
sented the cause of the people in oppo-
sition to the petition for Bosquet's dis
charge. He argued that the testimony
against the latter was clear and posi-
tive. It had been shown that the woman
who occupied the L-street crib a por-
ton of the time and the N-street resi-
dence for a few hours each day was the
wife of the prisoner; that she lived in a
house of prostitution, if not with his
connivance, at least with his knowl-
edge and approval, for he had been fire.
quently seen in her company going to
and from the L-street den.
The law, he held, was plain on the
subject, and it was the intent of it's
trainers to afford a means for breaking
up and prohibiting the practice of
men keeping women in disreputable
houses that they might live off the Ill
gotten gains of wives or others.
Judge Catlin refused to grant Bos-
quet's petition for discharge, and re-
manded him to the tender mercies OF
Sheriff johnson and his minions.
Bosquet was arrested by Officers Bag
ley and Rutherford, and it was largely
on their testimony that the prosecution
depended.
GOLDEN EAGLE SIDEWALK