The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-12-15
WOMEN AND INEN
CAUGHT nv RAID
eit Are Fined and Some Sent To
jan BY Mayor Harmer IN
Police Court.
.o.ggs noaIH 8 INYADHl
I.f sduad of Police Who Find occu-
pants Drinking Beer and
CarOusing.

S9uv women and Eve men we're ar
"a IN 4 raid by squad Of police
men on the East Side Frlday n 9ll
iifslit ana locked up for trial satnE-
day morning at the resuIat sesSAo u.
~ police court by Mayor Hafmef on
f6e CHARGES of maintaining a house
- ilI-fame and assembling In IT TOT
3 s1TsT191TaI Iourposes. The women and
four men were found
GuiIty Of the Charges
ana we're hned $40 and costs. The
nT,isoneTs were John Cross and his
lane Gross, their daughter.
B.i0ssfe Cross, Ada Riley, Clara
shook. p. C. Riddle, Bunk Pullem'
r b. Heldreth and J. B. ADAMS.
The raid was made by Policeman
Brooks, Lewis, joyce, Cunningham:
Nelson and White, at the nome OF
4he Crosses In the East END, near
ale q. &. 10. railroad scales not Tar
from the foot of Oak street. When
the oficers approached there appear
ed to be
Unusual Festfvity
within the house and when they en-
tered they found the men and women
sitting in chairs, on beds and draped
about on other articles of furniture
drinking beer and having general
.carousal. The officers placed them
under arrest and took them to jail.
ZThe inmates OF the house had a
whole case of beer and they were
+ making way with the whole OF IL
according to the officers
Mrs. Cross said in court that she
didn't know anything about the beer
until she returned from the show at
the opera house and found them
All Drinking
1t ana that she ordered them to take
1t out OF the house. She emphatic
ANY, Denied that she or her husband
were keeping house of tll-fame and
that the men and women there had
assembled for immoral purposes.
This was in substance the testimony
of the other defendants. The men
knew the women the Crosses claim
ed and were merely making
social call. Adams claimed he
boarded at the house Riddle
acknowledged that he was
An Utter Stranger
TO the women until Friday night
when Hfldreth, who. said he had
known the Crosses and the women
for q long time, invited him to call
at the house with him about 1880
O'Clock
The arresting policemen. testified
as to their part in the raid OF the
house and Brooks and Joyce when
questioned by the mayor said that
the women in the case had bourne
Ftae regulations as indicated IN the
charges against them.
The mayor discharged Adams but
found all the others guilty and hne9
them $40 and costs each. He SAID
that there was
No Direct Evidence
10 show that the men and women
mad actually committed immoral Of
lenses that night but the fact that
the visiting men called at late
hour, one OF them being total
stranger, that key of beer had
been procured from brewery and
that the women had not bourne the
best of reputation convinced him
that they were guilty. He said that
young men and women ought not be
fsarousing around at that time OF
night, drinking beer and entertain
ing callers who came at such a late
hour.
Sent to Jail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cross could not pay
4hei fines and were sent TO Jail for
ten days. They were punished on
Ire charge of keeping house OF III
fame. Ada Riley. Clara Shook ana
Iyiossie Cross were also sent to jail
Tor ten days each in default OF the
payment OF their fines. The others
paid their fines and were released.