Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-17
Judge Lindsey's
Fight with Beast"
By VIM. G.. Shepherd

By VIM. G. Shepherd
Denver, Colo, Nov. 17.-Judge Ber
B. Lindsey's home and other posses
sions are mortgaged. His health is
impaired and the doctors say he ought
to be in sanitarium for a rest of two
months. But "The Beast" won't per-
nit him to leave the battle-ground in
! Denver!
While Lindsey was i'll in a sanitari-
UNI in the east "The Beast" started a
new attack on him in Denver. It is
the bitterest of all those which Judge
Lindsey has ever faced
81 don't care what they say or do
said Judge Lindsey to me. "They
can cruelty me if they want to, but l
won't stop my fight. My address is
the Juvenile Court, Court House, Den
yer, and I'm going to be there in the
future, just as l have in the past, un-
less they kill mel WON'T 8lVE
UPw
Judge Lindsey sets free negro ra-
pists.
That is one charge being made
against this doctor of sick lives"
Judge Lindsey pardons boys and
men. who assault girls" in another
charge.
+. "The girls suffer and boys go free
It's boys court. There isn't name
of a ruined girl on the records of the
court"
These are grim charges. An organ
ization of three women in Denver,
called the Woman's Protective league,
which is secretly backed, it is charged,
by Rodin Curtis, once head of the
Denver street car system, made these
charges and continues to scatter them
broadcast throughout the country.
In Denver the PEOPLE DON'T BE-
LIEVE THEM. They KNOW that
the league is a small organization
with a secret purpose. But, in the
country at large, the charges are dan
gerous. l asked Judge Lindsey to re-
ply to the accusations.
They're a pack of lies," he an
swered. ''In regard to that negro as
sault charge. A little girl told the
police she had been attacked by an
old negro man. The officials found
that the little girl had told them a
ghost story and in my court the lit
tie girl admitted that her story was
make-beIeve. l let the old negro go
and the officials gave him letter of
apology for holding him in Jail.
"They say the names of girls don't
appear on my court records, as if l
never went into such cases from the
girls standpoint. It's the girls stand.
point l take. You bet their names
don't appear on the court records.
They won't get there, either, or on any
other records! I've kept secret every
case of the boy-and-gi sort / will
not help to ruin the lives of little girls
WIN ndNS UGH uiilOi lulldte. iHSSC
enemies of mine demand that have
court trials and that l bring the girl
into court and make her testify against
the boy and thus brand the girl her.
self forever!
at is in this way that girls are
forced into brothels. l handle such
cases in my private office. l saA 30
the boy and girl together. Sometimes
l send the boy to Jail as lesson.
get the truth out of the girls in this
way. Little girls who go wrong
and / could find 1000 of them in six
months in the schools of Denver or in
the schools of any other city-always
try to protect the boy. In open court
such girl, if IA or Is, will always
lay the blame on one of several boys,
whereas the other boys are just as
blameworthy, all of whom would go
free. In my office, where women as
sistants help me, the girls tell the
whole truth!
II can't tell you of all the happy
marriages in Denver that have begun
| in my court, or of all the girls in Den