The Detroit times., 1912-04-02

worst dive IN
ks had dealings
la. they call II.
8rted 10 live up to
q. 1t has assiduously
living OF the title, since.
he last few weeks, bad
fridge, notorious Negro,
In the cheek by the
-, when be attempted to
but the place..
white men and colofed
and coIored men and white
mingle .nsthe tawdry cafe,
the Huuors flow freely, and
talk Is drowned by two Negro
tiers. who awaten the echoes with
Nv rendering Q popular songs.
Kessler. the proprietor, Is a white
man. Most OF tis patrons are coll
yored y
Tpstairs Is Ia restaurant, dis
stinguished frog the cafe by the
odor of cookig. and the sight OF
things to eat. ION week days, before
the legal elosbg hours, and on SUI
DAYS, this restaurant is quiet place,
peopled by feepy looking Negroes
with an ai9of infinite peace and
| quiet.
Time afteftime this place has been
I raided, Sunbys, and during the early
I morning h8rs.
I PatrolmS Dean and Fiahm rushed
s in at oIock one Sunday morning
last fall. khey found Ave women ard
i've men the restaurant. A wash
tub contBed &c bottles OF beer.
: There ~ a three-gallon. Jug -pf
A3hisIy Al a two-gallon Jug OF Gin.
wilma Findley, i'm charge OF tic
restaurft said he was Just giving a
iittie titlin's" supper to his guests.
There fas no evidence OF payment
u mon. which the local courts hold
Iteres5y to establish case.
n Sert Wilde and Patrolmen Hayes
Ind 4Gugin raided the place at 3 a.
M ok day last February.
Lee was in charge. Three
womb and man were sitting at a
tabn No drinks were In sight. Five
me1were in an adjoining room and
a nIn and a woman in another room.
Unexplained that all were employed
IN khc restaurant. There We're 500
bc5les or beer in big ice box. The
twp women were taken to the station.
The police closed up the place at
Midnight for two weeks, when Kess-
II begged OF, saying that Lee had
bten discharged and that. there would
b no more trouble. Lee Is back on
the job, now.
! sunday morning, March "a, at 4
o'clock, Sergt. Clark and Patrolmen
Jyergens and Hayes raided the place
again. They found only sleepy
waiter. E&s
Hearing voices after they had left,
they returned, and found six white
men, five Negroes, and five dozen
empty beer bottles on the back porch.
upstairs. The big ice box was well
filled with beer.
Detectives Wilson and Black have
frequently taken white women out OF
the cafe.
Last Saturday, shortly before mid
night, Sergts. Wilde and Kinney Wis
lied the place, accompanied by a
Times reporter.
Negroes and Negresses were seated
at most OF the score OF tables.
Four young white men had table
In the center and few whites
mingled with throng OF Negroes in
the bar-room.
Close to the side door. opening on
ciinton-st, through which the officers
quietly entered, sat two well dressed
white women, ,unescorted
The Bucket OF Blood" has more
doors than an ancient feudal castle.
Doors appear at every corner, at
every few feet in the walls, upstairs,
and down.
Before the ofiicers reached the table
where the two women were sitting,
the urbanely brazen Mr.. Kessler had
received THE tip" from waiter. had
strolled hastily but calmly in from
the barroorn. and seated himself with
a flourish 1T the table. apologizing to
the women for having LEFT NY friends
SO long.
The women took the cue. They
had Just dropped in to see their
friend, Mr.. Kessler." The blum didn't
20. and they had TO 60 to the station,
where Lieut.. Davis took their names
ana their stories. and warned them
that another visit to the Bucket OF
Blood" would mean trouble for them.
one OF the women said that she
was the wife OF q Negro, who IL In
Jackson prison, serving a 10-year sen.
fence for abusing white girl. The
t,fhof said she roomed with her com