Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1918-03-01

There has been vice crusade on
in Putnam this week Whether it is
over or not is not known Three dis
reputable houses have come into the
light of day through the polio court
and a bad state of affairs has been
shown to exist. Young girls have
been harbored in vice by married
women, and men in the lowest strata
of society have been holding revels,
according to the testimony
The prosecuting attorney, and po-
lice, materially assisted by Mrs. w.
J. Bartlett. who learned somewhat of
conditions by being appealed to for
! aid in the way of fuel and food. and
/ by using her influence to have reluct-
ant witnesses come forward and tell
the truth, have been able to get the
evidence that led to the conviction of
three women, girl and man, and
the placing of several children in the
county home.
Following the cases of Eva Cor
nell and Peter Gregoire, Buck street,
Wednesday morning, reported in an
other eolumn) came the cases Thurs
day afternoon of Mrs. Ethel Bates
and Pearl Warren. The Bates wo-
man was charged with keeping a dis
orderly house on Buck street, and the
! Warren girl, who has spent six years
| of her life in the industrial school for
! girls, with frequenting the place. The
| Rates woman is married to a colored
man She figured in the case where
an Italian stabbed railroad man
near the City Hotel not long ago. The
Italian is now in Brooklyn Jail. When
| Mrs Bates was sentenced to three
! months in Jail she said she didn't
care if it was three years. She said
| she had reason"
A woman who lives over Mrs. Bates
told of men coming and going, and
fights going on late into the night.
The Warren girl told of being APP
preached by the Bates woman and
invited up to the house Dates were
made with men and she was even
asked to meet negroes, she said. They
went to Danielson one night to meet
couple Of men. but the men did not
show up. She stayed at the Bates
home two NIGHTS and Mrs. Bates told
her how she got money from the men
and that a eolored man had been sup
porting her all winter, buying coal
and wood Mrs Bates husband, wit
ness said, met her Tuesday night as
she was talking to a man and told a
policeman. The policeman told Mrs.
Bates to GO home and when Mrs.
Bates got there she and her husband
had fight.
Mrs Bates said she had three chill
dren, 9, 8 and a years old. She de-
Dicu ali NOHduNb III hti
home or out of it. She was sent to
Jail for three months.
The Warren girl plead guilty to fire.
quenting the house. She was let out
of the industrial school for girls about
year ago on parole. She will be
taken back to the school.
This Friday morning Mrs Nellie
! Gill of Lee street was charged with
keeping a disorderly house and the
Warren girl appeared as witness
! against her. The Warren girl men
/ toned the names of several girls and
men that frequented this place She
said Mrs Gill had taken her and 9TH
err girls to two different hotels and
there they met men.
Mrs Gill denied the story told, but
admitted she had been to the hotels
but only to sit in the parlor and pass
the time away. She called the wit
ness a "squealer"
AS a result of the cases the young
err children in the Cornell, Bates and
Gill families have been sent to the
Windham County Temporary Home.