The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-01-22
THE POLICE MAKE A RAID
Clean Out One of the Main
Street Buildings.
THE COURT FINES FOUR PEOPLE
Mrs. Emma Page Who Has Been Con.
duetlng a Lodging" House In the
Eiseley Building, Is Landed In jail
and Will Leave Town.

quoting LOGGING Rouse IN the
EiseIey Building, is Landed In jail
and viii Leave Town.
The police raided the rooms OF Mrs
Emma Page on the second floor of the
Eiseley building, corner Norfolk av.
enue and Second Street, yesterday
morning at o'clock and pinched the
landlady together with three young
men. The entire party were landed
In jail for over night and appeared, one
by one, before Police Judge Hayes this
morning.
All four were found guilty. Two
verdicts were given on the charge of
vagrancy and two for disorderly con-
duct. Mrs. Page, the landlady, was
found to be vagrant and given fine
of $11.50. She left watch and n
bunch of gold rings as security for the
payment. In pronouncing the fine,
Judge Hayes said:
THE charge upon which this woman
is found guilty is vagrancy. That
strikes me as very light 1t ought to
be the conducting of bawdy house,
as the evidence shows that such is
the case"
Officers Pilger and Livingstone raid
ed the apartments at o'clock in the
morning. They found one long room
cut up into three divisions by means
of partitions about five feet high. The
effect was rather one of three stalls
in a stable than of three distinct rooms
in a house.
Disgusting Conditions.
Within the big room were two cots
and a bed. Upon these the four peo-
pie, Mrs. Page and the three men,
were spending the night. All of the
men testified in court that they were
drunk. Mrs. Page said they were, too.
The testimony of the police showed
that two of the men were sleeping
with all their clothing on, upon a cot
in the kitchen end of the room. An
other was in the bed and Mrs. Page
was lighting lamp when they forced
the door and entered. The other cot
had not been touched
The whole quartet were Immediately
arrested and ordered to get ready to
go to Jail. There they spent the time
from in the morning until noon.
Mrs. Page. who is one of the most
hideous looking specimens of femin-
Unity ever turned loose upon the
streets of Norfolk declared that she
had been conducting a lodging house
in the Eiseley block since October 23
regular roOmer and occupied the
kitchen cot; that the other two came
up together that night for lodging
One of them, she says, paid her a
quarter for the lodging. She says he
paid her no more. The man, on the
stand, swore that he paid the land
lady 81 and admitted that she was
conducting a house and that was why
he went there.
Two of the men, John Doe and John
Smith, pleaded guilty to the charge
of disorderly conduct and were fined
$40 apiece, which they paid. The
third, Parry Law, pleaded not guilty
to the charge of vagrancy, was found
guilty by the court and fined $40 and
costs. The fine was not paid and the
prisoner is now in Jail, eating bread
and water, until his fine shall be paid
He claimed, as did the woman, that
he had been boarding and rooming in
the house for the past ten days and
that he had paid his board in advance
until today. He said he had paid $3.50
and Mrs. Page said he had paid 81.
Says There are Others.
In listening to his fine, Law said:
Il expected the worst of it when
came up here. Instead of going after
all of the houses on Norfolk avenue,
you have hunted me down. There are
any number of just such places in
the business portion of the city and if
every one of them was made to serve
ten days for such offense, there would
be whole prisonful of convicts for
life"
The Eiseley building is on the main
business street of the city. 1t is a three
story structure at the corner of Nor
folk avenue and Second street. Mrs.
Page says that she is going to leave
the city and that she will go from
here to Niobrara.
The police are on the watch for
other places of a similar type and
purpose to deal in the same way with
them.