The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-18
GIRLS HELD
FOR Being
DRUNK
WERE MEMBERS OF A coNvIvJAI
PARTY.
Young Man Turns His Homo Into a
Place OF High Jinks While His
Parents Are Away.

One OF tho most sensational oaso.
OF Juvenile delinquency that has ever
been brought to the attention ., tha
Osocn police is now closely guard
ca secret at police headquarters and is
oeing vigorously investigated Two
young girls are confined at the city
jail and others are being sought for
with view OF securing detailed evi.
dence.
IL develops that for several weeks
past certain residence on Seven.
teenth street has been, almost night
ly, the scene of bacchanalian feasts
drunken orgies and high carousals of
various sorts. the guests being young
girls and boys from the families of
respected citizens OF the city as we'll
as wives and husbands representing
otehr well-known families of Ogden.
The alleged host of these functions
Is said to be young man of eminent.
ly respectable parentage. but who has
taken TO the crimson path during the
temporary absence of his people, and
mas followed 1t with spectacular eff
feet, gathering around him choice
assembly Of hte sportily inclined. both
nldle ana female.
Wednesday evening two young girls
were arrested In an intoxicated con-
dition and. with their young male es-
corts. were brought to the city jall.
The boys were Questioned by the DO.
lice this morning and allowed to go
upon their own recognizance. The
girls, however. are still held pending
an investigation
According to the assertions of sew
eral Of the erstwhile guests of the
home mentioned, the assemblies have
varied in number from a couple or so
10 as many as dozen OF fifteen peo-
pie. In some cases the carousaIs have
begun in the early hours OF the even
Ing and extended we'll into the next
day. Upon other occasions. however.
II is asserted by the guests them
selves, that they have remained at
the home as long as three days at a
time, the girls excusing their absence
from home by pretended visits with
friends, the young men adopting sim
liar means in covering their delin-
quency
IT Is stated that two Japanese SER
'"heo hd't pSNu III llt t1UDIoy OF In6
host to prepare meals and in various
ways add TO the comfort and pleas
ure Of those at the frequent affairs, "
and also to attend the banqueters in
the cold gray dawn of the morning
after" One Of the female guests
stated today that more than $500 had
been spent In one week and she pro-
ceeded to enumerate some dozen or
fifteen names of both married and sin
gle persons. members OF some OF the
best families Of the city
Two girls. who admitted to the po-
lice that they had taken part In var
ious functions at the house named,
were brought before the chief OF po-
lice today and closely questioned re-
Garding the matter. They were asked
the names OF their companions on
these occasions and also the names OF
those who had accomplished their
ruin. One stubbornly asserted that "a
drummer" whose name she did not
know. was the cause OF her downfall !:
but the other blurted out the name OF
young man well known in the city,
together with several others. and, as
result, the police will fathom the
case to the bottom.