Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-03
GIRLS WERE DUPES
Young Women Used in Recent Work at West Shore By ihe
 Stale Police.

New Haven, July 3.-There IS chapter regarding the activity of lhe state police at the west shore taat did not come out at the hearing ol the Sunday liquor law violation cases in the borough court of West Haven yesterday. The chapter is sad commentary on the methods used by the state police and it is partly re- sponsible for very bitter feeling against them by many persons Tn all walks of life who have been made acquainted with the facts
 Said prominent citizen yesterday and one not connected in any way with the saloon or hotel interests at the shore: T have heard the inside facts regarding some of the work ol the state police at the shore and IL Is about time that the Christian lead- CTS of the state should take hand to stop some of the methods used. When the regulations of our respee- table young women are viclously ieopardized, as in this case, to eaten two or three saloon keepers selling beer on a Sunday, then it is about time to call halt or make an l:- vestigation."
 In explanation of the above state ment it is alleged that man by the name of Foley in the employ of the state police, having two addresses III Hartford, one at 112 Hungerfofd street and the other at 173 Russ street. and also another in Rockville at 1 Lawrence street, and State To liceman yalkyrie, alias Frank Wylie, of Bridgeport, took advantage of the formers friendship with a respecta- ble girl living in New Haven and used her and another New Haven girl as innocent tools to get intoxi- eating drinks at the Rock on ecr- tain Sunday in June.
 Both of the young women are cm- ployed in one of the big department stores in this city. One of them had known Foley we'll in Hartford. She knew his family and when he came to call upon her here early In June she accepted an invitation to ride 10 the, west shore and have dinner. She first invited him to her home, but he insisted upon going to the ROCK ana as her mother was i'll she decided to go for the outing. Foley had friend-Valkyrie-s to make me party complete the second young wo- man was invited.
 Without the slightest suspicion that they were in the company or two state policemen the young women, both of whom come from highly respectable families and both of whom have the very best ot characters, started out for the shore. They went to one of the most promi- nent places and before any objee- tion could be offered one of the men ordered wine.
 Later they left and during the af- ternoon were inveigled into two other places, having refused to go into fully half a dozen others.
 Early that evening the girls went home and it was several days after that they heard that Foley and Valkyrie were state policemen. Both were terrified at first, but could not believe 1t true. When convinced one of them went to Hartford, fear ing she would be dragged in as witness and her reputation ruined. She confronted Foley and he denied he was connected with the state po- lice, but before leaving the city she learned enough to know that he was. She was right, as Foley's name was signed to dispositions in some of the cases. In this plight there was but one thing to do and that was to see the proprietors of the places she had visited. She called upon one and explained her story and begged him not to fight the case as she would be called as a witness. This proprietor had two counts against him, He openly ae- knowledged being guilty of one but on the second he declared he was not. but to save the girls he yester- day took his medicine and paid the fines imposed. In the meantime the o.her proprietors. through the first one, agreed to do the same and both girls have them to thank for the preservation of their good names and for their positions which they would have undoubtedly lost had their names become public through the trial.
 These facts were brought to the attention of several officials and they declared such methods outra- geous. They were a thousand-fold more dangerous to the morality of the community, said one, than fhe violation of the Sunday liquor law and 1t was about time that good citizens should rise up and demand the elimination Of such tactics as no community could afford 10 have Is respectable young women deliber- ately degraded in this way.