The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-18
A YOUNG GIRLS PLIGHT
MATTE PLANK ENTICED FROM HER
HOME IN METCALF, ILL.
Burr Brady and Fred Smith, Of Hume.
ILL.,, Under Arrest - The
Girls story.

The trial Of Burr Brady, Of Hume, Ill,
charged with enticing Matte Plank, a six
te~en-year-old girl of Metcalf, ILL.,, to an
immoral resort and with seduction, was
postponed in Police Court yesterday morn
ing until Tuesday next, awaiting the ar
rival Of the girls father. With Brady was
arrested Fred Smith, also Of Hume. who
was charged with lettering. The girl tells
a pitiful story, and the men decline to
talk.
She said she had known Brady for about
a year. Her parents had objected TO the
attentions paid her. and about three weeks
ago Brady proposed that they elope and
get married. Tuesday night, in carrying
out the plan. they left home and went to
a small town near Metcalf, where a horse
and buggy belonging to Brady was in
waiting. Together with Fred Smith as
driver, they came toward Indianapolis and
stopped at night at a town near Roach
Gale, on the Monon Railway, continuing
the next morning the trip to indianapolis.
Miss Plank said that upon arrival hero
she was taken to the resort of Belle Spen-
Ger, on West Washington street, and by
Brady told to stay there and do as the
other girls do" She said she knew moth
ing OF the place, and within a few min
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the girls. Later, she said, she told Belle
Spencer her age, and the woman declined
then TO keep her. Brady, she said, had no
money when they got here, and she had
none. The Spencer woman gave her some
money, and, with one of the inmates, sent
her 10 a restaurant at 50 South illinois
street TO get a room. She engaged the
room and then went out ON the street.
where she met a woman and her husband,
to whom she told her story and was by
them taken to their home. The police were
advised OF the facts by a man living near
the Belle Spencer resort, and an inveStiga-
ton by Bicycle Policemen STREET. and LoSh
resulted in the arrest of Brady and Smith
and the detention Of the girl at h~eadquar-
tiers.
Jessie Price. charged with lettering, was
in the workhouse.
Charles Sanders, colored, several times
convicted or acting as agent for a lottery
CT policy scheme, was fined SO and costs
Tor the same offense yesterday in Police
Court. His attorney appealed the case.
Prosecutor Ruckelshaus said Sanders was
released the last time in the Crimina Court
upon his promise to refrain from further
operations of the policy scheme.
Ot the TOUR persons arrested Thursday
night at 430 West Wabash street as in
mates and frequenters of an immoral re-
sort Sam Sing, a Chinaman, was the only
enc who was able to raise enough money to
lay his fine, which was $40 and costs. A
colored woman and man and a white girl
giving the name OF Louise Foster went TO
the workhouse.
Judge Daily In continuing a.case against
Ben Howard. OF 19 Greedy street, charged
with drunkenness. made the bond $1,000
and suggested that a man who got drunk
TO celebrate his Wife'S death should be kent
in Jail. Howard. it is said, also threatened
TO throw the body of his wife into the
river after a disagreement with his father
in-law relative TO the amount of insurance
money which should be spent on the fu-
I neral.