The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-11
DECISION IN VAUGHAN CASE
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 moral house, characterize the appli- | cant's house.
 want to say word or two in refer ence to the particular place. Prospect Place, That is residential part of the city It is close to Yale college and it's buildings, and the students of the uni | Versity are located all about 1t. This is certainly a most improper place in which to locate house confessedly re-
 sorted to by women who are given to illicit practices. It is located within a | few feet of the houses of reputable cit izens, so located that they must neces- sarily suffer, both in person and prop erty, from the evil reputation of the place. It is so located that the cries
 and natural expressions of pain from the patients disturb the inmates of the adjoining houses, and render the occu- patton of that house uncomfortable and practically impossible In short, the house is a public nuisance, viewed in
 any aspect permissible under the evil dence before this board
 In conclusion I beg this board to consider the fact that this entire inves- tigation has proceeded under the as-
 sumption by all persons taking part therein, including Mrs Vaughan her self, her counsel and the members of the board, that previous association
 with Mrs. Vaughan, if known, would injure the reputation of any person who has been so associated. It was
 not matter of astonishment that
 when Mrs. Vaughan herself took the stand she was perfectly conscious of
 the fact that known association with l her by any person would injure the
 reputation of such person. and she | herself seemed to be as anxious as any
 one that the real names of the persons 1 associating with her should not be dis l closed.
 respectfully submit, in the interests
 of public morality, public decency and
 the repression of crime, that this ap-
 plication should be denied.
 MIR. GOODHART'S ARGUMENT. ]. P. GoUdhart, counsel for Mrs. l Vaughan, submitted brief which was
 in part as follows:
 After rehearsing the various public ! investigations which have been made
 as to the character of Mrs. Vaughan
 and the nature of her business, and re- ferring to large part of the testimony f taken at the last and in prior hearings
 and trials, he asserts that the woman | is being persecuted, attacked from ! every quarter of the ambush as well as ! from the open, ard that whatever evil 1 has attached to her reputation is un- founded and grows out of malice, ig-
 norance and spite. He says:
 The application has certain equita-
 ble and moral rights which should be i gravely considered by the board *
 To prevent her under the cir
 cumstances from continuing in the bus 1 mess to which the law entities her is
 repugnant to the essence of personal
 liberty. It practically robs her of her 1 vested rights, an offense which is and
 always has been jealously guarded by
 the law.
 1 At the time she obtained her license 1 in 1895 her character had been investi- ! gated, notice had been given to object ors and no one had appeared in oppo-
 sition. She had taken every step that 1 could be expected of a law-abiding per
 son to keep within the law and the llis- tory of the persecution of this woman, < since November 23 last, until now, has been the most outrageous and dastard-
 ly since the burning of the witches. l Verify, the spirit of Cotton Mather
 seems to have been perpetuated.
 1 The persecution should cease and the
 request for the transfer of this license
 be granted.