The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-11-29

She slept in a cell, in her kimona, and
played checkers with her nose when
not indulging in boozy slumber.
When the officers first went up to
The office they boosted up patrolman
Lake to take look over the transom
to the room where the poker chips
were heard rafting. When Edward
Vance saw strange. face gazing
through the >transom, he opened the
door and came out. When the door
came open, the police went in.
Chips and money were on the table.
Vance was conducting the game. The
several gamblers on the green were ar.
rested and also taken to headquarters.
They were booked as Charles Rellepo,
Virgil Andrews, Thomas Brown and
John Stodd, as the News Tribune re-
ported it. The man represented as be-
ing John Stodd, in reality was2 John
Todd we'll known grain speculator and
member of the local board, Of trade.
All was confusion, and excitement
down at police station. All the gal
lant gamblers wished the privilege OF
putting up bail money for dear old
HMa" Smith. In their own behalf
four. of them put up $25 each, which
they forfeited in municipal court the
next morning by their 7non,appaaranee.
Ed. Vance was compelled to sleep
in Jail all night as result of not hav-
ing $3.50 in cash bail by him. :. He Sc
cured bail in the morning, as did Mad
am Smith. Both pleaded not guilty to
the charges against r.. them and trials
were set for Wednesday, this week.
These lines are written too soon to give
the outcome of the trials. Vance does
not seem. to be well known to the po-
lice and he may be a new worker in
the local field Of low moral endeavor.
There seems to be a dearth of infor-
nation as to- Madam Smiths life-his-
tory. She is said to have come to Du-
luth from Minneapolis. She is the
mother of q daughter about 20 years
of age who has resided at the West
hotel but who is credited with not be:
ing in sympathy with the maternal do.
ings in the lines OF low moral endeavor.
Some. time ago, bold boy rambled
into Madam s gladsome retreat and
found everything running wide open
gambling, booze and attractive young
Jezebels abounding In great profusion.
"My dear woman, - said the visitor,
~! think you would be afraid of run.
ming this way" -. ''''.
-HWhya'r dueried "Ma''- Smith. "
"Tbe police win pinch you. D.. =
"Pinch hll ~ exclaimed Madam
with great bravado. s'I stand in with
the chief" ".7".-
The Rip-saw has no reason to believe
Madam Smith 3 statement so far as
chief Murphy is concerned, but it cer-
tainly held good in the days Of the ter
rible McKercher. Madam Smith was
reputed to "have something on the big
eeller," therefore ran her classy dump
lust as sinfully as she pleased. The
West hotel, in fact. was credited with
being one Of McKercher g favorite re-
sorts. He may have made Madam
Smith the object Of his frequent visits
and he may have used her comfortable
-ooms as shelter for fair but frail crea-
lures whom he took there for his own
private purpose. He even may have
switched back and forth between Mad
am Smith and other complacent women.
All those days have long since gone by.
In addition to gambling and assigna-
tion facilities at the West hotel, Mad
am Smith has maintained very moist
little oasis. The degree Of precipita'
tion in that dump has been very high,
in, fact. After Madam was pinched,
chief Murphy and his men found quite
q heavy supply of bottled booze as well
as a big pile Of empties.
Jim Sheltry 3 blind pig at the Palm
er house never had much Of. an edge
IN Madam. Smiths blind pig in the
West hotel. :. ..E: - r-ee2 = 50
It is stated, by the way, that before
Madam Smith was pinched the new
manager of the Rex theater building
had given her thirty days notice to
yaeate. Since she was caught by the
police, it is stated that the manager Of
the property proposes to make her va
cate forthwith. as...s~ = II
; When Bob ,.MeKereher was in the
heighth Of his power and arrogance as
chief of police of Duluth, he. tried, to
curry favor with the Oliver Iron Min
ing company officials BY bounding some
Of the prominent Hibbing citizens who
were in that historic feud with the Big
Interests. ~ 7'ii2s go :
lone of the Hibbing, feudists is said
to have kept fair but .fsail young
women at the West hotel. He allowed
her $50 . month for current expenses