The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-07
KEY TO VICE
IN CHICAGO.
States Attorney Is Fighting to Gain
Possession to It and Wishes to
Unlock the Whole
Secret.
AWAIT FAIR WEATHER

Denizene Of the Underworld Scatter
all over the City in Search Of
Some Place OF
Shelter.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ] |
CHICAGO, Oct. THE fight Of the
states attorneys office to gain pos
session of the "key" to the vice report
which was compiled two years ago at
cost to the city of $4,000, was put
over until October IL when Edwin
Sims and Dean w. T. Sumner appear
ed before Judge Cottrell to protest
against making the explanation to the
vice report public. At the same time
Judge Hopkins in the criminal branch
of the municipal court postponed the
hearing of the charges against Har-
rison B. Riley, president, and Justin
M. Dali, secretary Of the Chicago
! Title and Trust Co., who are alleged
to have rented property which their
corporation held as trustee, for i'm
moral purposes. Judge Hopkins set
4 October Is for the hearing.
In their efforts to prevent the "key"
ito the vice report becoming public
Sims and Dean Sumner made the
claim that 1t would not be the best
4 public policy to furnish the secret in
i formation, much Of which they had
obtained only upon their pledge that
: it would never become public. They
made legal objection that the evi-
dence contained in the report was
gathered two years ago and conse-
Iquently was irrevalent. Assistant
& States Attorney Arnold met this OBJ
) lection by saying that they had nc,
, right to raise question on the valid
, ity of the evidence until it was sub
Il mitted.
The chief objection to giving up the
report explanation was owing to the
pledge of secrecy made by Dean
Sumner and the other investigators
at the time the information was gath
cred. Dean Sumner told the court
, that much of the secret information
i was mixed in the report with the evil
, tadence which they are willing to give
up, and that they could not give up
the key" without violating the con-
:. fidence of their informants.
Spurning the offer of Miss Kate
Adams formerly secretary to Police
Chief Leroy T. Steward, to furnish
every woman inmate of the closed
vice resorts with homo, girls and
j women of the vice district today
sought new homes in every residence
: section of the city. Cheap hotels,
boarding houses, flats and residences
were sought by the women who have
been driven from the segregated dis
I tricts, many of whom have forgotten
|. how to work for living.
Numerous complaints were made to
I the police of the invasion of the resi-
h dence sections by the women whose
2 garb and appearance stamp them as
/, refugees from their former homes
The police were unable to take any
o action and said they could not modest
v the women as long as their behavior
a was such that no violation of the law
e was apparent. Many of the women
n have departed for other cities to
q wait, as they themselves expressed II
O until the storm blows over
o Miss Adams invited all the outcast
girls and women to come to the Life
Boat Home, Beulah Home, and the
Florence Crittenden Anchorage. She
said she was assured of financial sup
!, port sufficient to care for every one
of the hundreds of women who have
: been turned adrift by the crusade
= against segregated vice districts.
y States Attorney Wayman and two
is assistants were working today upor
their plans for causing the arrest o.
= half a hundred additional owners o.
resorts, and the owners Of property
which ia rented for immoral purposes
I Changes Tactics.
i CHICAGO, Oct. 7-State's Attorne.
: Wayman this afternoon changed hi
ID tactics in the vice crusade which ha,
been waged in Chicago and it's sub
e. urbs. and ordered thae no more raid
O. be made upon resorts in the tender
lg loin. He said no more action woult
IT, be directed against the women in
O. mates Of these resorts, but that ever.
70 man who entered one of the place
es would be arrested and prosecuted
o. ut is not the purpose of this offic
It, to drive unfortunate women out 0
n their habitual abodes and into the res
le idence sections of the city, sal
to Wayman II have no desire to pei
secute these, unfortunates There vii
tn be no more raids upon resorts in th