Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-24

ever have any conversation with Major
Howard. the Chief-of-Police, in reference
to houses Of prostitution in this city?
DR.. Goodwin: I have, sir.
DR.. Hawthorne: Will you please relate
here, substantially what you related at
the public meeting of citizens. in regard
to that conversation.
DR.. Goodwin: Yes. sir: was speaking
to Major Howard on that subject and told
him that had heard a great many re-
ports that there were in a certain locality
OF this city-did not mention the exact
squares, but above First street, between
Broad and Franklin-I heard the state
ment made that there were twenty-five
or thirty OF these places in a few squares;
also the further statement made that
there we're $50 in the city.
DR.. Hawthorne: One hundred and fifty?
A PULLING MATTER.
DR.. Goodwin: That is what said to
Major Howard. Major Howard said Yes,
they are up there He says, We have
been trying to locate them where the
police could keep an eye upon them and
where they would make little disturb
ance." He said: I'VE thought up on
Broad street was the best place to put
them He said that there was no ques-
ton that disturbed the chiefs in their
annual meeting any more than that one
ton or i'll fame. He went on and stated
a case that in one city they had deter
mined that all these places should be
driven out according to the letter OF the
law. and that they scattered throughout
the city; and in one place there was a
tenement house, or fiat On the lower
floor, he said, of that house is a respecta-
bic family. on the second there is house
of assignation or i'll fame on the third,
ia fa mil a
fourth another bad house. Those people
passed up and down together in the same
elevator. He said: IF ! drive these peo-
pie away from there. how do know that
they will not go and rent house next
door to you?" He says, Il know where
| they are. I keep my eye on them; and
furthermore he says, 1T is great as
sistance in breaking up this thing. |
constantly get letters from men in the
country whose daughters come off TO
town and they fear that they have gone
to these places And" he said, q think
his words were), "in forty-eight hours
he could generally locate them, and in va
rious instances he had arrested girls ana
sent them back to their fathers; he says
he knew them all, had list Of them all,
and had the place where each one was
and had the eye of the police on them ali.
PROTECTED THE PROPERLY.
e don't remember the names. suppose
Major Howard can tell if you ask him,
but somewhere up on Broad street, of
merchant or business man OF some klnd
who came to him when he heard he was
about to move one of these women from
his store, and begged him not to do it:
said it was the greatest protection thas
his store had: that people were going
in and out all night and it was protec-
=; I,ic -efn o-c,n1 ing IA
| Pile at least on Broad street did not OBJ
| iect to their being located in that part of
the city. asked Major Howard the ques-
ton, isn't this against the law He
said. Certainly it is: but what are you
going to do abou it, He says: There
is no question disturbing the police
authorities of the United States more than
that question. That is it in substance
Dr. Hawthorne: You say he stated
there were $50?
Dr. Goodwin: I did not say he said so.
I said said to him that I had heard that
in a certain location up there about Mon
roe, Madison, Marshall. and Jefferson
streets along there in the neighborhood
Of DR.. KerrS church and little farther
! out, there were twenty-five or thirty,
and that had furthermore heard that
there were about 80 in the city and could
it be possible Major Howard did not
city.
DR.. Hawthorne: I understood you to
say $50 in the whole ci.y.
DR.. Goodwin: NO, sir; I heard that
statement made, but did not make it.
Dr. Hawthorne: 1t was made in the
| meeting.
ABOUT. THIRTY-EIGHT OF THEM.
Major Howard: Lon't you recollect in
a conversation we had some year or more
rod q
| up Broad street from Seventh to Madison
and Monroe, UP in that neighborhood, and
yot. said Yes that you had been up that
way? And then asked you, did You ever
| see any disorder or disorderly persons
hanging out of windows-wonlen hanging
out of windows?
Dr. Goodwin: Yes, recolect you asked
that question.
Major Howard And I told YOU lid
YOU know there are Iwenty-elSht or
| thirty-eigllt houses of i'll fame between
| Seventh street and Madison and Monroe
ard YOU seemed to be astonished?
DR.. Goodwin: Yes. sir; and | expressed
my surprise. I don't think that was IN
that same conversat ton; it was another
time
Major Howard: That statement YOU
| made there is very correct one.
DR.. Hawthorne: The statement of DR..
GOODWIN Is correct.
Major Howard: That is about the NUM-
Der of houses in the city.
DR., Hawthorne: Who was it made the
statement that there were four hundred
and fifty? Who made that statement:
DR.. Goodwin: Three hundred and nifty
is the number. it seems to me, | heard
that were in the city. but don't remem-
Der. 1t was when they were talking that
night. I don't remember whether 1t was
! DR.. Upshur, or who it was. 1t was in the
discussion in which DR.. Upshur took
| part.
DR.. Hawthorne: I will find the man
| who did make it. I do not know that l
wish to ask DR.. Goodwin any furthe,
| question
MAJOR HOWARD'S TESTIMONY.
! Dr. Goodwin was excused, and Major
Howard was called and sworn and in
terrogated by DR.. Hawthorne as follows:
DR.. Hawthorne: Major have You read
the statutes in regard to suppresslns, de-
tectins and reporting lewd houses in the
city?
Major Howard: I will state. to save
time that I have made myself familiar
with all the laws on the subject.
DR.. Hawthorne: Are you, then. aware
of the fact that these lewd houses exist
in defiance of the laws of the State?
Major Howard: Yes, sir.
Dr. Hawthorne: What do you conceive
to be Your duty in reference to them as
prescribed by the statutes of the State?
Major Howard (Tising): l will stand Up
and tell You that I conceive it to be my
d,,t,- chief 0f notice to do the best |