Arizona republican., 1916-02-17
REP0SE
 NEAR Il REP0S0
So Testified the States Wit nesses Residents ill the Vicinity Describing Pro ceedings at Mrs. Ellen burg's Road House

Declaring that Fl Reposo was nei- ther more nor less than a road house frequented every hour of the day and night by men and women and often girls as young as sixteen years of age, neighbors of Mrs. H. Ellenberg yesterday took the witness stand and testified against the woman charged with keeping disorderly house.
 For some time, Mrs. William La Fever has threatened to swear to a complaint against Mother" Ellenberg and when her own seventeen year old daughter was "enticed" to the place, she was reused to action. This daugh- ter is married to a son of the de- fendant.
 Mrs. La Fever was the star witness but there were others who brought to mind the adage that people who live in glass houses should pull down the blinds and use Maxim silencers. Statements were made that auto mobile parties from Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa made the house at TWen- tieth and Van Buren streets the rem QtZNOuS IOl Hltll llisihillS NLcli lilt laughter and loud talking and occas- ional quarrels disturbed the neigh bors from midnight until the early morning hours. Dances, where the women were clad in silk kimonos. ap- peared to have been carried on at Fl Reposo and an overheard telephone conversation added bit of spice to the examination.
 The hearing was called for 1O:3 later when Mother Ellenberg ap- peared in Judge Parker's court. She took a long comprehensive look about the crowded room. On one side were lined all the women witnesses and on the other side the men equally strong in number
 Its just spite work" she said, with
 a shrug of the shoulders and a smoth cred laugh. Then she asked for a continuance.
 Judge Parker allowed the state to proceed but granted the defendant a continuance until 10:30 o'clock Friday morning when she will be represented by counsel. She asked for all oppor- tunity to secure more witnesses. How ever. she and her son did very wei without a representative when it came to questioning the witnesses. Mrs. Jennie Crow was the first tC ! take the stand. She said her prop
 erty had decreased in value because of it's proximity to the Ellenberg | place some few blocks distant Mrs. Janet White who superin- | tends MonteZuma place, a sanatoriun | across the street from Fl Reposo 1 said that she was distui bed at mid night and later by automobiles going
 back and forth and by the genera 1 hilarity. Mrs. Ida Hersting told prac-
 tically the same story.
 c. J. Newman, "who had never beer l there and couldn't tell what it wa.
 like inside testified that it seemed very lively from the outside looking
 in In his opinion the place was z
 road house.
 1 Here Mother" interrupted to say
 she would not allow him to enter hel house.
 William La Fever, husband of tn,
 woman who swore out the complain
 said that Fl Reposo was a combined
 residence and business house H,
 said that he had seen girls as young
 as sixteen enter the place and tha it's influence in the neighborhood wa bad. He has three minor children h.
 said, 4, : and IA years of age. H.
 heard not only laughter but scream
 and the smashing of furniture at var
 ious times. His wife cOrroborated hi
 statements and said the comfort an,
 peace of the neighborhood had beel
 disturbed for the past four years b.
 the house. Mrs. Ellenberg told me,
 declared Mrs. La Fever, that she wa going to run the house in spite o