Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-07
KEEPERS MUST APPEAR
 BEFORE SUPERIOR COURT
Action Taken in Cases Arising from State Police Raids-Frequenter Three Weeks to Reform.

After about two hours occupied in | several conferences between State At 1 torney HaGlai A. Hull, Judge Luctus | Brown and City Attorney John D. l Hali and Assistant Supt. A. l.. Story 1 of the state police, occupying the time from to 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. the continued cases against the six women and one man alleged to be keepers of houses of ill-repute and -he 43 women frequenters were disposed of.
 By special arrangement the court sat in the town hall, where the women occupied the front seats and a crowd about 200 men sat through the session to see what would be the outcome against the keepers of the houses who were raided the first time on the night of April IS and again on the night Of May 1, both times by the state police.
 The final act of all before the court came in for the disposal of the cases was for States Attorney Hull to sum mon all the alleged frequenters before him for a conference in his private room. The keepers stayed in the town hall and were not summoned to the states attorneys room.
 When the women returned from the conference with the states attorney court opened, Judge Brown on tlle bench. Attorney Charles W. Comstock represented the prisoners and City Attorney Hall prosecuting.
 The six women charged with being keepers, Whey Nordaby, Julia Dom- bey, Marion Morse, Maud L. Young, Anna Davis and Cora Mahoney, were each bound over to the superior court under $500 bonds on eaca accusation, total bond of $500 fer each. Jere- miah Mahoney and Florence Wilson, arrested in the first raid as keepers, were put under $500 b inds, and Clara | Stevens a sister of Marion Morse, ar rested in the first raid as d sub-keep- CT. was also put under $500 boEds. As the keepers were also presented | in each raid on the charge of violation | of the liquor laws. these cases were settled by lining them each S25 oh the
 original raid, but the cases on the second raid were nellea with costs In
 elCh case one witness fee of Sd Was al | lowed.
 In taking up the cases of the wo- men frequenters, over 40 in number,
 State Attorney Hull and Judge Brown
 both addressed remarks to the court.
 Major Hull placed emphasis upon the point that he was not conducting this
 prosecution in any vindictive spirit,
 but was determined that there should
 be a cleanup and cleanout, and he wanted to give the women a chance to lead better lives, which he thought
 many of them might do.
 Judge Brown expressed his attitude
 in the matter by saying that there
 were only two courses left for him to
 take, either to send the women to jail
 or impose a fine. He did not want
 the court to rest under the implied
 imputation of taking revenue rather
 than imposing jail sentences, but he
 was not in favor of jail sentences fol these cases and the only alternative punishment left for him to impose was fine
 The cases against the girl inmates were then continued for three weeks with the intention that in that time they might find other and more respec-
 table means of employment. Bonds il
 each case were placed at $50. Judge Brown then ordered Police. man Irish to clear the town bali O all but the prisoners, the counsel anC
 the bondsmen.
 Those who had previously been or the bonds of different individual. ' were allowed to withdraw and thu Z bonds In all cases were taken by ont q man.
 As Prosecuting Agent H. II. Burn | ] ham wanted to get away 10 Jewet ' City and Clerk Tibbits could not con : Veniently get at the different bank I books and securities, the hour of tw, Y o'clock this afternoon was named fo ithe payment of the fines in the nquo
 cases and the adjustment of tn U bonds.