The evening times., 1897-06-14
A MOTHERS GRIEF IN COURT
Her Youthful Daughter Arrested
Upon a Disgraceful Charge.
The Judge Warned the Weeping Nu-
man to Keep Her Child OFF the
StrcCts-Nau Not Arrested.

y sad story was developed in the police
court today in the case of Maud English
a fifteen-year-cld gin. charged with en-
ticinG men to prostitution. The girl,
hIack-eye,i, red-cEeeked Slip OF lass,
vas caulhtIn a room with william l.. II
Solver, employed by Fish Dealer Javns.
| in a raid r.ade upon a house of OfdSSigndtiO1
on First street southwest. by SerSt. Daley
and Officer Rauer last Saturday night.
The girls mother, well-dreSScd, re-
Spectably-appearing woman, was i'll court
and wept bitterly al the officer : recital
OF her daughters lapse from virtue, but
Maud herself stood in the dock, apparently
unmoved.
When the case was called Prosecutor
Pugh recited the facts. and then said:
Now, your honor, all the Government de-
sireS is that this girl be put in place
where her downward career can be arrested.
We do not want her sent to the wOTkhouse.
If her mother will promise TO keep her off
the street aud to take better care Of her
l would ask that your honor dismiss the de-
fendant with ii repTiniand. There is no
doubt that she was doing wrong. She was
caught i'll this room with the man
Yes" interrupted the judge, and if
he had been caught "a little later he would
probably be charged here with peniten
tiary offense."
Then followed pathetic scene. The
mother, Toaning and Sobbing, was called
around to the side of the judges bench,
where the court questioned her and the Of
ficers i'll a friendly manner. The police
men told how they had received numerous
complaints from mothers with regard 10
these cClored asSigndtion houses on First
street southwest, and that white girls of
all ages are admitted there.
A warrant had been taken for this
especial house and five policeme en- stationed
there to NatChit They saw this grlenter
with an old man and after allowing u
little time TO eIapse followed and found :he
two in the room"
Where is trat old man." here broke III
the mother, sobbing aloud. why isn't he
brought here; the reprobate, who ruins
young girls?''
He was summoned here, but didn't ap-
pear, youI honor explained Sergt Daley.
''If | tell you all about the case, you can
trllthat he WASH t culpable however. When
he was caught he told me-and ne was cor
rohorated by the girl THAT she had accostei
him and asked him to go to this place to
have a good time He had asked her how
old she was and she replied that she was
seventeen years old, He then said he nd
not know any place to go, tC which she
answered she knew of this place on First
street: that she had often been there, and
knew it to he TeTfectly safe. She led him
to the place, and we saw her enter first
and then bechon for him to come on. y
ut would seem from this, madaue,'
said Judge Kimhall to the mother, that
she has hcen to this place often before
"Oh, your HONOR was the reply. Il am
Fure she has never been in that place be-
fore Saturday night
Was this the first time, YOU have been in
tiat rlace?'' the girl was asked.
"Yes, sir
''Well, how did you come to know ahoJt
it?''
Another girl who goes with nc told lne
about it
The uotler again began 20 cry aloud, and
the girl showed the first sign of emotion
during the trial.
FLUSH, Mammal she begged