The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
Quartette from Dallas City Spent One
Night In keokuk and Then
Later Were Arrested in
Quincy.
THEY TELL SORDID STORY
One Of the Men in the Case is Said
to Have Been in Trouble Before
This and to be on
Parole.

TWO Dallas City, ILL.,, girls and their
escorts stayed all night in hotel in
keokuk, according to the story the
girls told in Quincy yesterday, where
they were examined by officials
there, where the quartet was ar
rested. The Quincy Herald tells the
following story of the liason of the
two couple from the time they left
Dallas City until they landed in
Quincy in the courts there:
In police court, this forenoon, fines
aggregating $21250 were imposed on
each of two defendants arraigned
under an ordinance and statute.
The defendants were Lee Wilson, SO,
AMI Leslie Roush, 20, both of Dallas
City, Hancock county, where Wilson
has vuleanizing shop at which
Roush has been employed The arrest
of Wilson and Roush was made at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon by De-
tectives Ford and Rosendale, who
found them at Fifth and Hampshire.
Under the city warrant the pris-
oners were charged with being open
ly lewd, and with disorderly conduct
decency tending to debauch public
ulOTdlS. UhueE Tic SldtG ldW tuSy
were charged with being idle and
dissolute, and with being wanton,
lewd and lasciyious in speech and
behavior To these charges they
pleaded guilty and declined to ties.
tify in their own defense after the
case, for the prosecution had been
presented by City Attorney and Act.
! ing States Attorney Wheelock.
Girls in Custody.
Following the arrest of the young
men, two Dallas City girls, Alice Hos
kin, 16, and frankie Hoskin, "A, sis
tiers, were taken into custody and,
after being detained at police head.
quarters for time, were committed
| to the detention home, where they
! remained until this morning. After
| the court proceedings they left for
home in the company Of their father
who arrived last evening in an auto
mobile. Mr.. Hoskin, the father, is
railroad section hand, the father Of
four children, the other two being
sons, one older than the girls and the
!, other younger.
| The girls left home about noon OF
| Will GuO uCSldiSo AdlCAlAoA
| of paying visit to their grand
parents. Instead, they met Wilson
and Roush and another young man
| and girl, and the six boarded a
launch and went to Fort Madison and
thence to Keokuk. From Keokuk the
unnamed couple, returned home
while the Hoskin girls and theil
escorts went to the Hotel Grand and
registered as J.. w. Smith and wife
and Henry Tilden and wife, and were
assigned to two rooms, where they
spent Sunday night Monday they
came to Quincy and under the names
used at Keokuk registered at hotel
on North Fifth street and at their
request were assigned to one room
| This was about o'clock in the even
/! ing and they remained in the room
until noon of yesterday. When ar
rested the young men had between
them less than So in cash.
| The Girls Testify.
! In court this forenoon the girls
testified to the facts in the case, bu1
both denied there had been any NOR
| ally wrong committed by them aside
1 lTO1u pUSllES lo thC WINS VI thSAi
| escorts. Alice testified she had beer
acquainted with Wilson for some
time, and Letter found in that mans
possession dated early this month
written by her, was filled with terms
of endearment and proposed to NEE
him at hotel at 8 O'Clock in the
evening, as early as she could ge
away from her work, and adding, :"
will meet you at the hotel or die II
the attempt" Wilson is said by Mr.
Hoskin to be married and to have ;
daughter as old as the Hoskin girl
/ Wilson, on the same authority, ha!
been in trouble before. the previous
time over completely in some crook
ed automobile deal, and is under
parole.
Mr.. Hoskin stated at police head
quarters that on his way home HI
would stop over at Carthage to con
suit with the states attorney of Han
cock county in reference to having
Wilson and Roush punished unde
the Mann act, or for contributing tt
4 the delinquency of minor females,