The leader., 1903-11-04
Who Shot This YOUNG Man?

country home, on his way to col
lege, got off the. train at the Jack
son depot, and instead of going on
out to the college or putting up
at hotel, for the night, he was
induced to 60 to an infamous re-
sort on Mill street, known as 1.-The
Mansion" where in a drunken
debauch with harlots, he was shot
at first it was thought fatally,
but now it is quite certain he will
recover. The doctors, at one
O'Clock Sunday morning, were
hurrying to the scene of the
tragedy to care for the wounded
young man, and the policemen
we're neck and neck with them,
looking for him who did the shoot
ing. The doctors found their
victim in a harlot's bed with A.
caIibre Colts pistol ball through
one lung, bleeding as they thought,
to death. The policemen found
theirs crouching in a nearby coal
chute, crazed with drink. The
doctors carried their patient to
the Sanatarium, and the policemen
carried their victim to the city
Jail. The next morning when he
awoke in the Jail, took his bear
ings, saw where he was and was
told what he had done, he knew
nothing at all about it, and the
other man was too sick to tell.
Now, who shot this young man!
That is an easy question, since the
policemen came and carried the
poor fellow who did the shooting
to Jail. But who is responsible
for the shooting? That. is the
question. Under the laws of the
State of Mississippi no whisky can
be sold in Kinds county, and yet,
the man who did the shooting was
drunk on whisky that he bought
in Jackson. Under the law no
such institution as The Mansion"
on Mill street can exist in the
State of Mississippi, and yet the
young man was shot down in one
of the rooms of this house that
runs in defiance of all the laws of
God and the commonwealth. 1t
is the most conspicuous house in
that part of the city. 1t can be
seen from the trains and from the
depot. Everybody in Jackson
knows where it is and what it is.
1t keeps open by day and by night
mostly by night-Sunday and
every other day, and many are
they who 60 to ruin therefrom.
Court after couIt has been held in
jackson and nothing has been
done with that house and others
like it. On the streets it is COM
monty reported that the owner of
the house goes to the city officials
every month and pays a "fne,"
which amounts practically to a
license, as not one of the inmates
of that house goes before the city
courts. Who is responsible for
the tragedy that happened there
last Saturday night? Not the
drunken young man that fired the
shot, not the young man that was
shot, not the poor unfortunate
women, but the officers of the law
in the city of Jackson and the
county of Kinds, and those whose
depraved sympathy helps to make
the arm of the law impotent, for
permitting such den of iniquity
to run in our midst, in open de-
fance of all law. Shame on the
city of Jackson and the State of
Mississippi! Gentlemen of the
police force-Mr. Mayor, Mr..
Sheriff, do your duty; have re-
gard to your oaths; enforce the
law; close up the doors of this
guided gatewya to ruin for our
men and women, so that in the fu-
ture you can be free from blood
outlines. Do it and every good
man and woman in the land will
stand by you; but do it, if you
have to stand alone. The Baptist.
Appropos what is so we'll said
by The Baptist in the foregoing
article, it should be a matter of
interest and deep concern to the
good people of Brookhaven and
Lincoln county, that a rather
pretentious brothel has lately been
opened in one of the suburbs Of
this city, occupied by negro
and mulatto harlots under the i'm
mediate supervision of mulatto
madam brought here for that pur-
pose. Situated near the last rest
ing place of the, city's dead, its
very location is suggestive of the
debauchery, Generalization and
worse than physical death it is
designed to visit upon the youth
and young men of the community.
Some of the initiated allege that
it has blind tiger accessories,
either in the same building or near
at hand, SO it need not be surpris-
ing, unless something is done, if
the crack of the midnight pistol is
heard in that direction ere long
and some fair and promising
young man or youth, who is his
mothers joy and pride, is brought
home on stretcher some night
bleeding and wounded unto death,