The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-23
LEWIS, VICE HEAD
 GOES TO PRISON

A young girl sat in the sheriff s
 office at the court house yesterday
 physical wreck of what might have
 been a good and a useful woman,
 had her footsteps been properly
 guided at the proper time into the straight ways of rectitude and clean living. She was, however, by vari-
 ous circumstances, neglected in those directions and in time became the base plaything of baser men, landing
 at last in the clutches of a law which
 seeks at once to chastise and help, helpless derelfct of humanity, drift ing at last to a safe harbor with the Home of the Good Shepherds.
 Outside in the corridor of the
 court house paced another young woman scarcely more than a girl Young, pretty, gir1ish in appearance, yet broken in spirit so that she scarcely could look one person in the
 face. At her side she led small
 child, a little boy three years old With the exception of a ten year old boy she was all alone. No one spoke
 to the colored porter with a ques- 1 tfon. "I really can't tell you mann.
 where he is. He was here a while
 ago. Dunno, but I expect they have 1 taken him away"
 In the. court room seated in the
 prisoners cage gaily chatting and I telling stories with another prisoner
 was the man who was in part re- I
 who waited in the sherif's office and was entirely responsible for the
 heart-broken little woman who paced the corridors. She was timid age to go to the court room and those who knew her had not the courage to tell her. The man in the
 cage was George Lewis, 'Kid'' Lewis legged head of the once-up-on-a-time vice ring which operated in Bridge port and vicinity. He had just stood up in court and confessed by a plea earnings of the girl he had helped prostitute. Did it shameless1y and almost with a smile Four other
 counts against him on similar charges had been nolled. The cour,
 said the details of the case were toe
 disgusting to him to recount. He therefore would sentence the prisoner to term of not less than one veal
 states prison at Wethersfe1d.
 1 The prisoner went back ito thu
 cage and a companion in crime ant , already sentenced for a crime agains , and smiiingly congratulated him , | Lewis was equally smiling in ac , knowledging the congratulations Tn, pair fell into an animated converse came in carrying a brace of "come | a1ongs.' They attempted a joke witt him about his "bracelets'' Don get funny with me unless you art looking for real trouble" said the bis [ sheriff. Ten minutes later Lewi stepped out of the cage and held III 2 one hand to the sheriff The ''brace let" was snapped on. Lewis care fully examined the other ''bracelet' and tested the chain to which it wa t attached. It held. He had for n while at least reached the end of hi ! rope. e The smile faded to a sickl t grin and trailing behind two othe S manac1ed prisoners George Lewis, tn v man who the Burns detectives wer 8 going to put away for such a Ion e time went out of the side door on hi e way to begin serving his term. Ther
 were no Burns men ito be found i
 court.
 Up in the sherif7s office Mary Vii n son, the central figure in the near a famous vice raids of last sprin d for time to go to the train whic n would bear her back to Hartforc r Tout on the sidewalk the little wifi $ and baby waited for some news. The 6 did not see the little procession n prisoners go out ito the autom obi @ which would carry them away. l. was as well that she didn't and
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