The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
Nude Girls Danced About on
Tables and Piano Tops.
Wine, Beer, Gin and Whisky
Flowed as Freely as Water.
THE 400" ENJOYED IT, TOO
Boys and Girls Held "Capaclty
Contests" at Road House.
Confession of a 16-Near-Old
Girl Starts Big Scandal.

Denver. Colo. Feb. 24.-DenVer So
ciety is today rocked from center 10
circumference and dozens OF pretty
girls. members of prominent famllles
in the swell Capitol Hill residence sec
ton. are on the verge of nervous
prostration for fear they may be sub
poenaed to tell what they know CON
corning certain midnight revels, where
young girls wearing less than slnlle
danced on tables floating in cham-
payne waves. Many are involved.
Complaints against Philip FrieIer-
ich former manager of an amusement
resort Allan Barth. defendant in the
GiN o~ce suit brought against him by
Mrs. Josephine Barth; Elmer Whitley
and John Joslyn have been signed by
Samuel Johnson, district attorney OF
Arapahoe county. The men are
charged with contributing TO the de-
linquenCy of a 16-year-old girl who
recently made statements to the Ju-
venile court concerning roadhouse or
gies and Cheyenne parties. The COM
plants ere sworn to by Juvenile Of
fcer John +. Phillips.
The Charges.
Altho the general charge against
the four young men is that of con-
tributinS to juvenile delinquency, the
specific charge is that they did take
1
to wit, the age of Is years old, in an
automobile on a Joy ride to a road-s
house or other place at Petersburg, in
said Arapahoe county, and there fur
nished. or permitted to be furnished
to said child. Intoxicating liquors, and
did there remain with said child until
long after midnight and to the early
hours of the morning, and not re
turning said child to her home until
after six the following morning; and
on various other and divers occasions
during the month of January. did
take said child to said road house or
other places at Petersburg in Arapa-
hoe county and caused to be fur
nished to her Intoxicating liquors."
The list of the witnesses include Z.
Hamilton United states secret serv-
ice; j. W. Melrose, United States Sc
cret service; John Rasmussen. Lena
NJ Rasmussen. Harry Rasmussen,
family of the 16-year-old girl who
made the confession; John s. Phillips
If the juvenile court; Dorothy Lee
clair. Mrs. LandOn, Mrs. Nice. Mrs.
HUM, George Swarthout. Charles
Kirk Vinton Gebhardt, Florence
Bovee, Rae Bates. Harry Bunte, Jose
phine Roche. Pessie True. Misses
Maxwell and the proprietors of
Petersburg and Sand Creek road
house,
Held "Un,lTcss Affairs
The witnesses will be called to tes-
tify regarding claims of the prosecu-
ton that "undress affairs were held
at the roadhOuses. in which women
stripped and danced on tables and
in which wines. whisky beer, gin and
other drinkables were furnished by
the automobile load.
The confession of the I6-year-o
girl was made about two weeks ago,
following several nights in which she
remained mysteriously away from
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certain evidence gathered, with the
result that the girl was brought into
the juvenile court There the girl
made a statement to Judge Lindsey
duplicating the four men whose names
appear on the complaints signed by
Mr. johnson. And her story was one
of scandal and of vice
we went out pretty nearly every
night" the girl told Juvenile court Of
ficers. Sometimes it was to one road
mousse and sometimes to another. We
always had plenty of booze along-I
remember one time that one of the
fellows said that we had enough booze
to float battleship.
Held Drinking Contests.
AT these parties we sometimes
would try to see who could drink the
most booze, The girls and the fell
lows all drinking together. When we
would get so drunk that We couIdn,t
have any more fun we would come
timest" i'e
The trips that We're told of by the
16-year-old girl were made in n motor
car she said. Plenty of whisky ana
other liquor was picked up in Denver
and INDUCED in plentifuIIy on the
road to the Wyoming capital. After
the arrival in Cheyenne, booze would
he bought by the case" according To
the statements of the girl.
other orgies, in which girls danced
naked on tables and leaped about ON
pianos in state of dishabilIe that
would not even do for a corset adver-
The testimony of all these viii 10
brought out in the delinouencv
charges. ny