Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-20
MRS. THOS. FOX IS FOUND GUILTY
OF BEING INMATE OF HOUSE OF
 ILL REPUTE.
Witnesses Testify to Bad Reputation of Butte House-Jury Was Out Only Few Minutes-Sentenee VIII Be Passed This Morning.

There was a great deal of disgusting testimony brought out yesterday in Justice McOonald's court, in the case Of Territory of Arizona vs. Mrs. Thos. Fox.
 Mrs. Fox. who was on trial charged with living in an immoral house with in fifty feet of the postoffice and less than four hundred yards from the pub lie school building seemed quite cool and collected all through the trial, be- yond a faint disurst as to what the verdict might be.
 The jury sworn to try the case was composed of J. E. Mosher, John s. Will Hams. w. D. Evans. w. II. Apgar. F. E. Coles. J. E. Evans, l.. E. Hawes, I'll )s. Hogan. B. Caretto Lewis Hunt. Vi. F. Cassidy. Peter Johnson.
 The trial consumed the better part of the afternoon. and the jury retired at D. IT. to consider the testimony. and after remaining out for short time brought in a verdict of guilty IS charged. Sentence for misdemean- or will be passed b. Judge Mcdonald this morning.
 N. Doyle, constable and deputy shef- 1T. who made the arrest. testified that the reputation of both the Butte Lode- ing House and of Mrs. Fox was bad. He said that OF former occasion she had been arrested in a house on Brew cry Cullen. This occurred sometime during the first week in January, 1905, and the charge was disorderly con duct to which she plead guilty and was fined for this offence under the name of McGowan.
 He also said that he had seen her on two or three different occasions out with men at an early hour in the morning in wine rooms and in other parts of the city.
 On the afternoon of the 14th of this month he said that he saw her solicit 1 ing or the street.
 On another occasion he saw her go- l ing home drunk at ? o'clock in the ! morningF
 He sd rthat he had known her for more than a year. and that she had | borne a very bad reputation since that timy He also said that he had told Dobson to get her out of the house op- posite the post office. and that he (Dobson) had said that if she did not hehave he wcnla Gc; -i5 Sf her. He also stated that he was the one who made the arrest.
 Jack White was the next witness called He stated that the reputation of the Butte Lodging House was very pad. and that the reputation of Mrs. Fox was none of the best. He stated l that he had seen her in a house of Ill repute drinking last spring. and that he had seen her in The Auditorium I wine room within the last two months. !
 J. Wilmoth. policeman. was nexe put I on the stand. The reputation of the | Butte Lodging House was bad. he said i He had known Mrs. Fox for about Q ! year and a half. and had arrested her ! in @ bawdy house during the first week in January for being drunk and l disorderly. She was fined on this charge. and at that time gave her name as McGowan.
 Blanche Martin. who resides at No. | Il in Brewery Gulch was the next wit ness called. She testified that she had seen the defendant before, and recited a conversation they had
 N. J. Medigovich said that he work cd at the store of Medigovich & No bile. He knew nothing of Mrs. Fox's reputation or that of the Butte Lodging House, but stated that he had seen her nearly every day in her win dow motioning to passersby.
 Doyle then took the stand and stated that there was one other woman in the house whose reputation was very bad, and that he had seen her and Mrs. Fox together a number of times.
 Mrs. Fox. the defendant, was the next witness called. She said that she came here about a month ago and tool, lodgings at the Butte Lodging House. The house was for sale, she thought. and she intended to take the lease. but found that she could not raise the necessary cash. and so wait cd to rent #. About a week ago Mir. Dobson bought the house. and she got ffe place of nousekeeper from him al $40 per month. She said that on one occasion she had been eating cher -ies. and that a MT. Logan. whom she knew quite well. passed, and that she had dropped hand full of them fo him. but that he did not cOne in. She also stated that two of her friends had been standing across the street. and that she had spoken to them, but did not call them in They came over she said. and stayed in her room for about twenty minutes. They talked about the most trivial matters all the time the men were there She did not know of any other women who had been living at the Butte. as there had been none but transients there since she had been in the house. She said that she and Mir. Dobson had met for the first time on last Monday, when he engaged her as bousekeeper. She