The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-16

recover Immediately, and shake hands
with his antagonist"
WAS Fitzsimmons knocked down by !
JeffriesT'
"He fell. A little tap might have |
dropped him while he was side-step- |
ping"
1T looked as if he fell as the result |
of a blown
HE might have. My personal ooinion
was that he did. My official opinion was
that the law was not violated.
Isaac Pearstein, rabbi Of congrega-
ton in Allen street, said there were as
orderly houses in that street and thal
complaints had been made to the police
without results. There was an i'm
provement in the district while Capt.
Chapman was there, but after he LETT
the old conditions prevailed again.
Emma Hartig, who said she was not
vet 16 years old, and who testified that
She had been an inmate of four bad
houses, was called. She is girl who
tried to commit suicide some time ago
after a visit to a Bowery saloon. In
all the places she had been in, she SAID,
there were girls less than 10 years OLD
and in some the children Of the women
who kept the places play with the IN
mates. The witness said she made ner
! first entry into vice through an adVer-
tisement for waitress
Cross examined by Mr.. Moss, the
witness explained the methods at NC
Guirks and other Bowery resorts. she
found many young girls living IN east
side houses and knew many young men
who took money the girls earned.
"HoW do they do it?' asked Mr.
Moss.
"Wen, they threaten to tell the police
unless the girls pay and If they don't
oef1r than thpU lick them,
Did any man treat you like that?"
yes; a man threw a chair at me be-
cause 1 had no money and hurt me.
The witness told, under Mr. Moss
lead. of women conducting disordery
houses and paying to look for business,
and of men who had four or five women
paving them blackmail. The witness
, got tired of the life and tried to XIII
herself ct McQuirk's. She was taken
to a hospital and has now reformed
Did the police ever interfere Win
: your" asked Mr.. Moss.
Eyes. one policeman told me every
time 1 passed him with a man l must
pay down quarter.
did you do it?'
: 81 did not pass him any more;
! Did the house pay the police?
'"They said so"
j
= money to the station house, but it was
not enough, and the message came pacl
1 IL she could not pay the fine for th'
l month, she must shut up
did she pay the fine?"
"She shut the house up.
The Rev. Shackelton, pastor OF
i Forsyth street church, sald the coIlul
: tions of the lower east sac hdu p &C.
u much improved during the last nv
|. months. and that there was yet nue.
e room for Improvement He told OF IN
: purchases Of liquor at the houses an
n of the number of girls at each. MI
= whitney said he visited a public dane
e hail in Capt Prices precinct on IN
: evening of June 9Th Two women IN
q yited him to buy drinks. lie paia
cents aniece for their drinks. Their
J was 81 women and "a men present. ,, 'ii
n the women were soliciting the NEIL
y Henry g. Wade, who was arrested !
n September last year, accused OF rui
Il ming a bucket shop, was the next VII
lie ness. His only connection with
= bucket shop, he said was 81
, months before when he acted as cIer
lie for the few days for a man VINO Iaile'
t. after a squeeze in the Letter WheS
s. deal. A great many persons were al
st vested when he was but this case we
n never pushed against any OF the OH
De ers The others got their cases tran'
lc ferred to general sessions while wac
d, was tried at special sessions and VIZ
OF fined the limit allowed by the code.
N John R: Wood, a detective t,titnss OF M
Ta SWelI Mr.. Wood" asked counst
ty how about the pool rooms?" -
as fThey are opening up again: +.
= some time they closed down. Visl
b. ed Is in one day and could not get in
one, but it is getting easier now
n The witness described visits to
ed dozen or more pool rooms in Brookly
Il From Brooklyn he came back to Ma
a haitian and lost $40 visiting more thi
X 30 gambling places. He Glayed +
IS and black and crap. :,
re Sigmund Nefetburger' another OF y
,cI Moss staff detectives, said ne ana !
u ordan had visited over 200 policy sho
during the last three weeks. He So
on he knew 10 or 20 hackers OF poll
to shops.