The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-03
CHEAP DANCE HALLS /.
ARE HIT BY THE LAW
STATUTE is DESIGNED TO PRO.
TECT WORKING GIRLS.
Society Women Banded Together to
See That Places Are Run in Ac-
cordance With Rules and Regu.
lations Laid Down BY the State
Legislature; Forced to Wed at
Point of Pistol.
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New York, March IA new up
lift movement designed TO protect
the morals of the working girls who
frequent the cheap dance halls, had
its inception today, when the new
law passed by the state legislature
fixing stricter regulations for public
dancing halls became effective. A
number of young society women
have banded themselves together to
see that the statute is strictly OBJ
served by the dancing halls in the
Murray Hill district. Every one of
the score or more places in this
section of the city will be visited
nightly by the feminine reformers,
who will be accompanied by their
escorts and will take part in the
dances, at the same time watching
for any violations of the law.
Illegal Sale Of Liquor.
The illegal sale of liquor to dance
hall patrons is the Objectionable fea.
ture which the women are most anx-
ious to eliminate. Every effort is to
be made by the fair society
''sleuths' to see that young working
girls, while provided with innocent
JOY and merriment, are safeguarded
from the dangers and evils which
are said to lurk in many of the
lower class dancing academies"
According to the reformers, most
r,F hD Of 10, L.
due to the consumption of liquors.
The white slave" agents who are
said to frequent public dance halls
find wine the most effective agent in
overcoming the natural modesty and
moral stamina of the innocent girls
who so to the dance halls for limo.
cent amusement and relaxation. The
sO-callcd tough" dances are also to
be eliminated.
Judge Wanted More Evidence.
Margaret Green Hickey. who want.
cd separation from John Hickey
who. she alleges. married her at
the point of revolver after liber.
ty of one week from Sing Sing, will
have to produce additional evidence
before Judge Mccall today if she is
granted the freedom she Graves.
Mrs. Hickey. at the trial, said
that she was walking along the
street one day, tending to her own
business and modest and decorous
as Il maiden should be, when along
came Hickey, an eX-cOnvict who had
coln
from Sing Sing. Hickey stopped
her, she says, and proposed that
they be married, and the same time
0ourishing revolver and threaten
ing to do damage if she refused his
suit
Was an Unwilling Bride.
SO the man and his unwilling
bride set out for Hoboken, and, ar
rived at that seaport, the ceremony
was performed at the point of a pis.
tol. The bride was kept a prisoner
by her new husband for a few DAYS
when she managed to escape. The
father of the bride then brought a
suit for annullment. saying that the
young lady was under age when the
marriage was contracted, and that
anyway. that Hickey didn't play fair
in making use Of revolver i'm his
wooing. Judge Mccall, who is an
unimaginative and unromantic per
son, after listening to brides story
said in part: ut will be very diff
ficult to convince me of the truth
fulness of this plaintiffs story