Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
FINES OF s291.so
 AND BONDS OF 5000.
Men Frequenters Pay and Women's
 Cases Are Continued.

Twenty men, charged with fre- quenting, were fined s5 and costs, amounting in each case to $14.5S, a total of s2s1.S0, by the city court here on Thursday as a result of the raids the night before upon the houses of ill repute by Asst. Supt. A. l.. Story of the state police and his 16 assistants. TWO other of the men arrested in the raid pleaded not guilty, it being alleged that they were employees at the houses in question.
 Six women, arrested as keepers, and 30 others, arrested as frequenters, had their cases continued till Saturday morning, May 4th, and secured their release under bonds Against the six women keepers there was also the charge of selling liquor without a H. cense and bonds were also fixed tn these cases for 8 continuance till May 4th. The total bonds furnished in all the cases aggregated S5,00O.
 Trial of the liquor eases was not reached till noon and of the other cases not till 3.03 o'clock, the prisoners all this time occupying the city court room. where the atmosphere became stihlng with tobacco smoke and there was also an attendance of spectators NLlCI IUOh up all lnS dNdlldblb oocAN ing room, as well as lining the room with those who came at court time As no complaints had been made 1 out and there were 5S to be prepared. after long conferences between City Attorney Hall, State Attorney Hadlai i Hull, Superintendent Egan of the state ] police, who was here for a short time ! in the morning, and other members of | the state police there was nothing for | the prisoners to do but wait. Because l she was sick, Cora Mahoney, arrested | as a keeper, was released on bail Four | of the men obtained bonds and went | out to lunch.
 At noon the court came in and l Judge Comstocl1 entered a demurrer and it was joined in by MT. Burnhan | and judgment was suspended until 2.30
 Close to 3 o'clock Judge Brown tool 1 the bench again and announced tha further trial of the cases would be con 1 tinued in the Town hall, to which th' crowd of spectators made an instan exit when court temporarily adjourn ed. Close to 200 men occupied tht benches in the Town hall as specta tors when court resumed it's sessiol there at 3.OS
 Judge Brown was on the bench, Cit. Attorney Hall prosecutde. Attorne, Warren Burrows represented State At torney Hull. and Attorney C. W. Com stock appeared for all the women pris oners and two of the men who pleade not guilty to frequenting. Policema, John Irish was the court officer. l Practically every man among tn jprisoners gave a fictitious name, an at one time two responded to the sam name when the complaint was reat All the twenty men who pleaded gull ty were fined $5 and costs eacf amounting to S14.58 in each case.
 On motion of Attorney Comstocl
 continuance to May 4th was grante
 in the six liquor cases under bonds 0
 s200, and to the same date in the cas
 of the keepers. Their bonds wer | placed at $500, Jeremiah Mahoney als
 being accused a Sd keeper. In in
 case of the two men who pleaded nc
 guilty the bonds were placed at S5'
 and the same amount was the bon
 named in the case of all the wome
 frequenters.
 All the men upon whom fines wer
 imposed paid to Clerk Tibblts l
 moving for sentence in these cases Cit Attorney Hall said he was satis1e
 that small fine was sufficient in thes
 cases.