The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

More sin and sorrow are brought
out in new development in the
Rose Elliott police scandal, the
details of which, involving Officers
Glider and Hood and their alleged
protection by Acting Chief of Po-
lice John T. Sullivan, have already
been published in The Press.
The new turn in the case brings
in the penalty paid by the unfortu.
5ate girl for her weakness, her
pregnancy and the removal there
of, marking the beginning of the
end of one of the most extraor-
binary cases of alleged police cor
ruption and wickedness, as charged
in sworn affidavits, ever brought
to light in Spokane.
The affidavits of J. II. Elliott
and wife charge Glider and Hood
with immoral relations with their
adopted daughter, Rosie Elliott,
whom the policemen kept in their
rooms for two weeks, over the pro-
test of the girls brother. I'm.
proper conduct was denied by the
girl and the policemen, who were
backed up in their denial and are
still retained on the police force
by Chief Sullivan.
The policemen began running
after the girl early last fall, and
in December, after the foster faith
err was safely slowed away in Jail,
the girl was living with the police
men in their rooms at E1326
Sprague avenue. But "he who
dances must pay the fiddler" and
Rosie Elliott is no exception to the
rule.
From an affidavit made by Mrs.
DR.. Mary A. Latham, with offices
in the Kuhn building, Rosie Elliott
turned up there between the 25th
of February and the list of March
and had been so for three or four
months. DR.. Latham made an ex-
animation and confirmed the girls
report and gave her some medi-
cine. This medicine was to ease
condition of nausea that the girl
complained of and not for other
purposes, and with that the girl
left. says DR.. Latham.
A neighbor woman living near
the Van Duzen house testified that
she saw Rosie Elliott the first of
March and that she had the ap-
pearance of woman advanced to-
ward motherhood. That soon there
after Rosie Elliott was taken very
seriously i'll at the home of Miss
Van DuZen and that she fingered
in very serious condition for
some time and that on the 31st of
March she was taken to the Sacred
Heart hospital on the order of DR..
Webb, who at this time appears Of
record in the case.
Mrs. Mary Latham has made an
affidavit as to the girls condition
March l., and the woman in the
Fisk street neighborhood will
swear to her condition when she
appeared there and also that at the
present time Rosie Elliott is not
in the condition that she was on
March /.
All of which goes to show that
four months in pregnancy March /
following, was relieved of her
trouble in some way between
March 1 and 81, when she entered
the hospital.
Who performed the operation
Who paid the medical attendance ?
These are questions that may be
answered soon, and when an
swered will spell trouble for peo-
pie now trying to cover up the
facts in the Rosie Elliott case.
A reporter for The Press called
on Miss Van Duzen yesterday and
asked If she knew anything about
the manner in which the Elliott
girl was relieved of her trouble.
She said that she had no hand In
1t and knew nothing about 1t and
threatened the reporter with ar
rest. She was very indignant and
grew extremely wrathy when ques.
toned as to her knowledge of the
case.
1t may be that the girl and the
policemen, Chief Sullivan and the
prosecutors office will now try to
fasten this last trouble on the
girls foster father, as they did in
the case of her first misstep. But
they must check up closely on
their dates, as nature has imposed
few obstacles In the way of this
sort of a defense.