The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-12-20
WOMEN AND MEN
CAUGHT Nv RAID
Eight Are Fined and Some Sent To
Jail BY Mayor Harmer in
Police Court
CROSSES HOME IS INVADED
By Squad Of Police Who Find occu-
pants Drinking Beer and
Carousing.


Four women and five men were ar
rested in a raid by squad of police
men on the East Side Friday mid
night and locked up for trial Satur-
day morning at the regular session
of police court by Mayor Harmer on
the charges of maintaining house
of ill-fame and assembling in 1t for
immoral purposes. The women and
four men were found
Guilty Of the Charges
and were fined $40 and costs. The
prisoners were John Cross and his
wife. Jane Cross, their daughter,
Flossie Cross, Ada Riley, Clara
Shook. P. c.. Riddle, Bunk Pullem,
r. B. Heldreth and ]. B. Adams
The raid was made. by Policeman
Brooks, Lewis. joyce, Cunningham,
Nelson and White, at the home OF
the Crosses in the East End near
the B. & o. railroad scales not far
from the foot of Oak street. When
the officers approached there appear
ed to be
OuuStkxAk CCSlVAty
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 a general
carousal. The officers placed them
under arrest and took them to Jail.
The inmates of the house had a
whole case Of beer and they were
making way with the whole OF It,
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
ii and that she ordered them to take
it out Of the house. She emphatic
ally denied that she or her husband
were keeping house Of ill-fame and
that the men and women there had
assem- bled 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 a
social call. Adams claimed he
boarded at the house. Riddle
acknowledged that he was
An Utter Stranger
to the women until Friday night
when Hildreth, who said he had
known the Crosses and the women
for a 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
the regulations as Indicated in the
charges against them.
The mayor discharged Adams but
found all the others guilty and fined
them $40 and costs each. He said
that there was
No Direct Evidence
to show that the men and women
had actually committed immoral of
lenses that night but the fact that
the visiting men called at a late
hour, one Of them being a total
stranger, that keg 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
carousing around at that time Of
night, drinking beer and entertain
ing callers who came at such late
hour
Sent to JAN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cross could not pay
their fines and were sent TO jai. for
ten days. They we're punished on
Sre charge Of keeping house OF III.
fame. Ada Riley, Clara Shook and
Flossie Cross were also sent to jail
for ten days each in default OF the
payment Of their fines. The Others
paid their fines and were released.
CABINET CHANGES.