The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-10
TENDERLO|N ARE
RA|OEO BY POLICE
State Agents and City Force Work
Together in Midnight Drive
on Red Light
Districts.
NINE ARE ARRESTED
Six Women and Three Men Taken by
the officers-Des Moines
Citizens Are
Doeketed.
NINE ARE ARRESTED

Guns OF state men and city police
derloin districts.
| In as many as half dozen mid
night raids Thursday, officers under
Instructions from the attorney gen.
erals office and home guardians OF
the peace arrested six women and
three men, among them Daisy Brooks
of No. % Main street, Hattie Spauld-
ling of No. 325 Exchange street, and
Evelyn Wayne of No. 1923 Exchange.
Defendants. through their attorney,
| waived arraignmenI in the superior
court today, where charges against
them were filed, and are held to the
grand jury in sums ranging from
500 to $500.
Des' Moines Man Caught
In the dragnet of the police was
Jimmie" Dicl1erson, claimed by
state agents to be one Of the most
notorious Dies Moines bootleggers.
Charge OF frequentng disorderly
house has been brought gaainst Dick
erson- When arrested Dickerson had
a roN Of more than $500 in his pos
session.
Women In Tolls.
The others arrested are: Matte
Walters. taken in raid on the Daisy
Brooks place; Dorothy Smith, arrest
ed in Evelyn Wayne house; Mary
Vance, who is said by the police to
reside at 1919 Ds Moines street, in
Des Moines; Art Nichols and John
Keith, taken at No. % Main street.
The police made no effort to secure
liquor
Assistant Police Chief John Pear
son and City Detective Wilson work
ed with the state men, Chief H W..
Terrell, w. A. Potter and Bill
Fisher
| The most serious charge is that
| brought against the Brooks woman,
that Of keeping house of nlfame.
All Of the informations were drawn
by Guy P. Linville, special assistant
attorney general
Accused Of Felony.
!, The Information against the Brooks
! woman specifies in part that she has
"unlawfully and feloniousiy kept,
used. occupied and maintained" the
house on Main street
Charges against Nichols and Keith
come under the city ordinances-act-
ing in disorderly manner in the
place where they were arrested.
Charges Of frequenting the places in
which they were arrested, for pur-
placed against the Vance, Smith,
Wayne and Waters women
! information Record Breaker.
| The Spaulding woman has been ac-
cused by State Agent Potter with the
crime OF nuisance. The information
as drafted is the longest one on rec
ord in the office of the superior
court, according to Judge W. L. Nc
Namara It was drawn up by Lin
VILE
The text Of It states:
THAT the said defendant on or
| shout the 10th day of May, 1918 at
| the township OF Jackson inside Of
City OF Keokuk. Lee county, Iowa
! and ON divers days and times be-
! tween that date and the time OF
filing the information. did use,
! occupy. keep and maintain a
| nuisance, common, illgoverned
and disorderly house to-wft:
! house Of i'll fame and in said
! house for her own gain certain
| evil disposed persons as well as
! men and women of evil fame,
manner and conversation there
I and on said date and other times
unlawfully and willingly, did
! cause and procure to frequent
and come together and said men
and women in said house at IN
| lawful times as well as in the
! night times as in the day on the
days and times aforesaid there to
| be and remain drinking, tippIing,
cursing, swearing, quarrelling.