The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-26
SP00NER "J0DNT" IS
RAlDED BY SHERIFF..
( ELEVEN "PINCHED"
COUNTY GETS $3.50

Fines aggregating $3.50 and costs
approximately $50 were imposed by
Judge Gibbons in the municipal court
this morning on husband and wife
and nine women taken in a raid on
maison de joie by Sheriff Johnson's
office in Spooner between ~ and 1
o'clock Saturday morning.
The proprietors of the "joint" are
Mr.. and Mrs. F. F. Anderson and the
inmates gave the names of Grace
Dean, Vivian Brown, Vesta Black,
Margaret Peterson, Pearl Kane, Ray
Moore, Myrtle Johnson, Pansy Lane
and Hazel Wood.
The raid was made by Joseph Har-
rington and Thomas Bailey, depu-
tized by Sheriff Johnson for the job,
and they pulled the entire works
and brought 'em to Bemidji, arriving
at o'clock Sunday morning, and
landing the bunch in the county Jail.
Crew Secures Counsel.
The whole crew was arraigned this
morning before Judge Gibbons, the
Andersons being charged with main
tanning a place where liquor is sold
and the feminine aggregation being
charged with being vagrants. States
Attorney Torrance represented the
prosecution. The Andersons secured
Judge Spooner to represent the lay
out and with the call Of the cases
Judge Spooner entered a plea of
guilty for. his molly. array Of clients,
and asked that as it was the first
time they had been arrested the court
be lenient with them.
Gibbons in Action.
Hazel Wood was the first asked to
stand and Judge Gibbons fined her
$50 and the costs of the hearing or
stand committed to the county jail
for a period of 60 days. The roll
of the other inmates of the Ander-
son "crib" was then called and as
each stood up Judge Gibbons fined
each $50 and the costs of the hear
ing or 60 days in the county jail.
Andersons "Get Theirs"
When it came to the turn of Mr..
and Mrs. Anderson to receive their
medicine" Judge Spooner called at
tention to the fact that Mr.. Anderson
lived in Minneapolis and was not a
resident of Spooner nor the county,
and spoke of mitigating circum-
stances"
Judge Gibbons asked Anderson to
stand up and as he did so, Judge
Gibbons expressed himself thusly:
"Your counsel has stated that you
are a resident of Minneapolis and
not of Spooner and calls attention to
mitigating circumstances in your be-
half. I fail to see any mitigating
circumstances where a man will as
sociate with an outfit like that.
Your fine will be 500 and costs or
stand committed to the county jail
for 30 days."
Mrs. Anderson was the last and
when she stood she received a SEN
tence similar to that imposed upon
her husband.
Cold Cash Produced.
Arrangements were at once enter
ed into by the proprietors of the
"'joint" to pay the fines and the cash,
$3.50, and costs were dug up
and handed over, the money fines
going to the county and the costs to
the city of Bemidji.
Then there was a general exodus
of the "girls" to the county Jail to
secure their grips and other belong
ings they brought with them from
SpoOner.
Bunch of Remnants.
The aggregation presented mot
ley array in the court room. There
wasn't a "good locker" in the out
fit. They resembled bunch of rem
nants on a bargain counter at the
close of the season. Much sympathy
was expressed for Hazel Wood. She
is a young girl and looked decidedly
out of place amongst the rest of the
t'junk" She appeared to be about
II or 18 years old, ruddy checked
and unsophisticated in the ways OF
the world to any extent. She was the
first to be fined and as she sat she
turned her head and tears filled her
eyes Near her sat a couple of ''vet-
Grams" and they would at times turn
toward her and with meaning looks
shake their heads.
One of the bunch wore pair of
tortoise shell glasses. They all wore
a nondescript layout of hangover
winter attire. Not one of 'em could
even flag biscuit wagon in a swamp.
It is said the "gir1s" are new re-
cruits in Spooner, sort of ''prepar-
edness'' for the spring opening or
exodus from the woods, but if any
of that aggregation could "shake
down. even a "jack" for anything
more than beer chip he would have
to be ''froze to the cushion"