The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-11

.N 'NP' eVSiVl' anu the cnllu, 1T IL HNeSi IS disposed of without supervision, without publicity and without the knowledge of any person; if it dies, it is disposed of in the same secret, un- known way. And this is held out to applicants, both women and men, as a reason why her house should be pat ronized
 II there were nothing else in the case except this most extraordinary combi- nation of boarding house, boarders, patients, immortality and confessed criminallty, it would be an open, fla grant and public disgrace to sanction, by an official license, the continuance or such acts. No such official license of such place should be made under any circumstances or to any person, even under the strictest regulations, supervision and publicity.
 Then it is said that some tenants on the street have never heard anything 1 against Mrs, Vaughan, and one wit ness, MT. Frederic, seemed to be of | that opinion; but we produced a re- monstrance signed by the property owners on the street to the extent of twenty or so who say that the reputa- ton of Mrs. Vaughan was so bad in 45 Stevens street as to depreciate the val ue of the property on the street. Co Mrs Vaughan also produces the testimony of doctors.
 1 Now, there were certain doctors about whom no question would be asked, but there were certain other doctors who did most of the business | a,,E I, A; mony?
 The most important of all these wit nesses Is Dr. E. l., R, Thomson. As my testimony is connected with his shall not criticise it further than to say that by the production of Dr, E. l.. k. Thomson, Mrs. Vaughan admitted that he knew the nature and character of her business at 45 Stevens street
 We submit that upon all the evidence l concerning 45 Stevens street and the admission of Mrs. Vaughan herself, she received any abortion case that came there without asking any questions, and l 1t is perfectly apparent from her own | statement that she was in that busi- ness, and her alleged excuse that she | took care of these cases the same as a l hospital would is ridiculous.
 ! (d) Mrs. Vaughan produces herself as witness
 But her own testimony of course must be unreliable; she can not, of course, admit that the testimony of any of the direct observers of her con- duct is correct, or that she has ever done anything wrong. Her examina- l tion of her conduct with MT. Penney was utterly inconsistent with morality or with the conduct of an honest wo- man.
 It is of no significance of weight that the chairman of this board made a mistake as to the law concerning the ambulatory character of the license. Ir so speaking, the president of the board did not act by any authority of the board. His mistake of the law could not prejudice the rights of our neigh borhood, or affect the duties or obliga- tions of his associates.
 This board, as if conscious that the merits of the application of Mrs Vaughan for license at 45 Stevens street had not been fully investigated expressly provided in her license fol that place that it should be revocable at the pleasure of the board It would be the duty of the board, on being sat isfied of the bad character of Mrs Vaughan, to revoke that license with out any hearing
 CD There have been similar indica- tions of impropriety at Prospect Place to those at 45 Stevens street; similar furtive entrances into the house and similar visits of men and women; similar visits of a strongly I marked girl with different men; calls upon neighbors at early hours of the morning to know where Mrs. Vaughan place was; a multiplicity of medica attendants, with no corresponding re- suits upon the register of statistics the same profound distrust of neigh. bors and destruction of peace, quiet and purity of adjoining homes; the same deadly and inevitable hostility between the virtuous homes upon eith- CT side and this house in the center the hostility that always exists be. tween vice and virtue, decency and in. | decency.
 l (3) There have been also some othe, facts which must unequivocally mark the nature of 8 Prospect Place, the character of Mrs Vaughn and the bus mess there being performed. There have been, as alleged in this lying-ir hospital, two cases where man and a woman have each for a period of about eight weeks occupied the same room, the woman finally in each case giving birth to a child; the man leav- ing the woman, being gone for while and returning again; the affair com mencing weeks before the birth of the child and continuing weeks afterwards
 Is the license of this board to be a person who, when she has a case of genuine honest marriage, is ashamed to announce it or let it be known? Is it so, that Mrs. Vaughn is entitled tc the favorable consideration of this board unless she is proved to be the