The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-08
LEADING CITIZENS
ARRA|CNED IN COURT
Chicago Vice Crusade Brings
Shame to Officials of Title &
Trust Company.
WOMEN ARE SCATTERED
Dean Sumner Still Refuses to
Surrender Key to COM
missions Report.
WOMEN ARE SCATTERED

CHICAGO, Oct. 7.---Arraignment in
the municipal conrt of the president
and secretary Of ono of the largest
real estate corporations in tho city
on the charge of renting property for
immoral purposes, was the lending
event IN the state attorneys war
against the segregated vice district to-
day.
Other Developments were the ar
| raignmeut of more than 400 inmates
OF resorts arrested in recent raids,
the announcement BY State s ATTORNEY
Wayman that wonId.be patrons of the
Levee Will be arrested hereafte and
court attempts to secure possession of
the "kcy' to the re port Of the Chi.
ca2O vice commission.
Harrison B Riley, millionaire presi.
dent OF the Chicago Title & Trust com.
pany, and Joseph NJ. Dali, secretary Of
the organization. were compelled to
answer before Municipal Judge Hop
Eius to the charge of renting property
for illegal purposes. A continuance
was obtained for the two until Octo-
ber Is. with the right reserved to de-
mand jury trial. Both disclaimed
personal knowledge of guilty trapsac.
tions.
More Capiases Issued.
Assistant States Attorney Thomas
Marshall has in hand more than fifty
capiases against real estate owners and
agencies.
State S Attorney Wayman's latest
move in the war OF determination he
has declared against the "Levee' y IS to
station large force Of policemen in
the district, with orders to arrest ev-
cry man who attempts to patronize any
of the resorts.
In a statement today, Mr.. Waymau
said there would be no more raids for
the present. "There is no intentlou
to use tho police power to drive these
women out of the district into the resi-
dence quarters he said. "The houses
will be cleared and kept closed as dis
orderly houses, that is all for the pres
emit
Disposition of the large number Of
women who have left the ''Levee' is
problem. Many Of them have sought
lodging in hotels and boarding houses
in the residence neigh borhood,
Will Resist to Utmost.
The fight for the possession Of the
kew to the report of the Chicago vice
commission, which is said TO contain
the names Of property owners. organ"
lied vice chiefs. and others sought by
the states attorneys office. was con-
tiuued today by Mr.. Wayman. Dean
Walter n. Sumner of the Cathedral of
ST. Peter and st. Paul, chairman OF
the commission, announced today that
he would resist to the utmost the sur,
render of the key.
| The key contains from 1900 to 1900
| names concealed under symbols In the
commission s published report. Mr.,
Sumner defends his attitude by assert
ing that the key would furnish com
nletc vice directory Of Chicago which
would be demoraliziug, that the lnfor-
nation was obtained from confidential
| sources and that it is largely hear
say,
Crusade at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, o., Oct. Five hun
dred women Of questionable reputa'
tion have been driven out Of town and
practically all the saloons. with cheap
| Grill rooms attached have been closed
nv a special "vice squad of thirty"
five patrolmen.