Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-26
FOUR WOMEN ARE
CAUGHT IN A RAID
Saloon of Dave DeSmet Visited
Late Saturday Night by
the Police.
INMATES ON THE ROOF
At Signal From Barroom, Damsels
Hurried Out of Sight but Of
ffcers Find Them.

Mayor H. NJ. Schriver this morning
revoked the license Of Dave DeSmet
for the operation of the ealoon at the
northwest corner of Seventeenth street
and Fourth avenue as the result of a
raid by the police late Saturday night,
when four women and DeSmet were
placed under arrest. DeSmet is held
under capias from the county court
charging him with keeping a house of
i'll fame. Each of the women is held on
a county court capias charged with be-
ing an inmate of a house OF i'll fame.
The women are Louisa Brown, Carrie
Enerts, May Brown and Mary Parkins
Each is in the county Jail under $500
bond.
SITTING ON THE ROOF.
Detective Caulfield and Officers Gin
name, Furlong and Fitzsimmons went
to. the DeSmet place Saturday night,
working under orders of Chief Brinn.
They went into the saloon and then
went upstairs. Searching through all
the rooms, they found not person. A
swinging window, opening on to the
roof, was disclosed to the officers.
They forced that and went up onto the
roof, and there was the quartet of dam
sells huddled in one of the dark spots.
That they were not taking in the beau.
ties OF nature and gazing at the stars
| is a certainty The officers told them
to come along, and come along they
did. DeSmet was already in tow. All
were held at the police station till this
morning, when cases in the police
court were quashed and the capiases
served by Deputies Siemon and Trux
ell. All the while the women were in
carcerated in the police station cells
they had a rather noisy time of it
FORMER ATTEMPTS FUTILE.
Chief Brinn stated this morning thai
former attempts to arrest women who
were known to be in the saloon were
futile because of a signal arrangement
connected from the barroom to the
rooms. Four rings on the bell Informed
the women Of the presence of officers
and they either hiked up onto the roo
and locked the window from the out
side, or descended into the cellar vii
the rungs of ladder, and then pulled
the ladder after them. Zach time tn
officers were baffled.
DeSmet submitted to punishment thi
morning when informed that his Il
cense would be revoked An Office
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were kept closed. However, he is no
to be pulled down off his pedestal will
out dragging others with him, and thi
morning volunteered information whic
will result in the arrest of other keel
ers. Mayor Schriver said this morn
! ing that another license would not b
issued for the place.
ALLEGED PANDERER HELD.
Information supplied by the four WI
: men led to the arrest of Ed McCarth
/, this morning by Sheriff o. L. Bruno
: on two charges of pandering. MEGA
l thy is held in the county jail undo
1000 bonds. Fred Appelquist, WI
:. wanted to go surety for the prisone
was advised by Sheriff Bruner that b
would have to schedule his propert
because of the large number of bono
he has already signed. The allegation
made by the women implicate MEGA
4 thy as white slave agent
8 VERBIEsT GETS ABUSIVE.
Ed Verbiest appeared at the sheriff
Office this morning and demanded TIL
+ DeSmet be let out on bonds signed |
s him CVerbiest). When he was r
e fused he started a stream of abuse
r the sheriff which resulted in the caliir
r in OF a police officer and the arrest
, Verbiest-