The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-14
|SOILED DOVES
ARE ARRESTED
West End Resorts Raided BY
Police.
FINES ARE IMPOSED
Inmates are Gently Told to
Leave Marion.
Mayor Schreff is Determined to Rid
the City Of This Undesirable
Class of People.

Under instructions from the mayor
and the chief of police, Captain
Worthington and the entire night
police squad, raided three resorts of
| iii fame in West Marion. arresting
three landladies and nine inmates,
about 1880 O'Clock last night. The
raid Is probably the biggest ever
made In the city.
The resorts entered by the police
were conducted by Carrie Heilman,
lead" Malonie and Nettie Edwards.
As soon as the inmates were placed
under arrest, the patrol was called
and the wnole bunch loaded in the
wagon and taken to the city prison,
together with two men caught in
the places. The men gave fictitious
names. The wagon carried fourteen
sorry loking individuals and three
slalwart policemen.
At the hearing this morning, Car
rie Heilman Cad NIaloney and
Nettie Edwards, pleaded guilty to
the charge of conducting houses of
| i'll fame and were each fined $25
which they promptly paid. The
Inmates of the houses were each
fined SIS and given sentences OF
thirty days in the workhouse which
the mayor suspended on condition
that they get out of town. The
"goils" we're dumfounded when
"I.ouie" followed his lecture with
the fine and sentence.
Not one stirred for some time
until one daintily clad and highly
perfumed "loidy,' exclaimed. "Now,
wa'd'ye think O. that? l guess 1t Is
'2S' for ours" And with blush of
delicate pink mixing with the red
on her checks, she slyly managed
to get her iland in her stocking and
pull out roll OF bills. Tearing
off a five spot, she handed II to the
mayor and went on her way. About
eight other socks were entered In
the same manner and the city was
Si5 tho better off. The men who
were in the places at the time were
each fined 81.
To say that there was consterna-
tion in that portion of the city
where the red lights burn brightly,
| Is putting it mildly. The raid was
entirely unexpected and the soiled
doves were caught unawares. The
action of the mayor in hanging a
workhouse sentence over the bunch
SO that IL any of them refuses to
leave town or ever returns it can
b, enforced. was probably the big
gost surprise. Persons In that bus
iness expect to be arrested occa-
sipnally and ay fines but the
workhouse sentence does not appear
tc suit very well. The mayor : is
determined to rid the city OF this
kind OF people. and believes it can
be accomplished only by the severest
measures.
| AT the Heilman resort, Eddie
Stout. May Gray, Katie Sterling and
Gladys Anderson we're arrested. May
Lawrence, Kitty Marshall and Aura
Livingston were found at the place
OF Nettie Edwards and Josie Peiffer
and Mamie Noonan were arrested at
the house kept by Cad" Maloney.
| According to the following state
mcnt issued today b.. Mayor Scherff
;hc letter published in Wednesdays
Mirror does an injustice to Edward
Fergus. This paper gladly publishes
the statement in which the mayor
acknowledges he made mistake
N giving to the Mirror reporter for
publication the letter received by
HIM from some unknown party,
who certainly did make some very
urcomplimentary remarks concern
.nE Mr. Fergus.
The statement made today by May
or Scherff reads as follows:
Mayors Office. Marion, o.,
Feb. 14th, 1907,
To the Public:-
BY an inadvertance there was
published, In this paper on Tuesday
evening, February 12th, 1907,
ccpy OF letter sent to this office
making uncompllmentary remarks
II reference to the business place
OF Edwardj Fergus On North Main
stieet. ! wish to state that the
publication of said letter was not
fair to Mr.. Fergus or his family, as
charges, in the regular way shoull
be fled If such statement is true.
and II not true, no such charges
should be made by letter or in the
newspapers.
So far as Is known to this office.
IMr, Fergus conducts his business
Iia a lawful manner and certainly
there should be no reflections cast
upon his good family. y
3. LOUIS 3SCHERTF.