The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04
PURITY SQUAD DRIVES HARD
AGAINST BNCOLAND BIRDS
Sevensyve Warrants Served N Three Dayscy jail Over.
AoweAWemen Given Bleed Tests-Many Victims
also Were Caught IN Notable Raid Last December.

SUPERIOR, March 1.--{Special to
the Rip-saw. Police station, jails and
courts have been congested as result
Of the February raid by Mayor Bax-
ter's men in the Bingoland underworld.
The raid started a couple Of days after
Chief Buchanan took up his duties.
About A sRrests were made the first %
hours. Thirty and more arrests were
made within the next couple OF" days.
The blizzard last week inte.fered with
the cleanup, therefore stih more arrests
may be expected before long.
The cleanup squad was led by Morris
Calvin, head Of that important body.
Fl. F. Chandler had charge Of gathering
the evidence. The city jail became so
crowded that cells had to be borrowed
at the county jail. A. great many
women were caught in the dragnet and
they were compelled to take blood tests.
, The physicians ran out of serum. One
woman, Ada Barlow, escaped to Duluth,
owing to the large number Of sirens
gathered together. and herr absence was
not noticed until too late to stop her
flight. r.
Charles Leighte, alias bath House
Charley" was caught again at his resi-
dence at 294 East Fifth St., in Allouez.
He works In the railroad yards by day
and runs a iawless dump by night. Un-
der rug in the family parlor, the raid.
ers found a trap door; and, beneath,
they fond moonshine whisky. Leihto's
baH was fixed at $500 and his trial was
set for about Feb. q.
To attract trade, Leighto has an cleo
trio light over the family gate. He en-
tertains his customers with mechanical
piano that cost 81 900 and talking
machine worth $500. "Bath House
Charley" also can play on birch bark
whistle and that was what he was do
ing when the raiders called for him.
Madam Hnda Collins was arrested
again at ITO N. Third st. She appealed
her case to the superior court, where she
finally admitted her guilt and compro.
missed on O fine Of $1e5.
Sam Peterson got six months in Jail
for sale Of Illicit liquor at 526 Ogden
Ave. b Petloff was given three months
at the workfarm for illegally dealing
in hard liquor at the notorious Cloquet
hotel. Acharge Of running discYderly
house was dismissed. Mrs. Jacob Re-
nard, charged with being An inmate Of
the dive at the Cloquet hoeef, was fined
SIS. 49,. ~.: ...'
May Curtis and Elizabeth Winston,
two eomplaeent ladies Of color, were ar
rested for keeping and frequenting, re-
spectively, . disorderly house at 1921
Fffth ST. In six different instances did
those women solicit sleuths to act
shsmefuliy with them. John A. Cadi,
gan, attorney general for Bingoland
and pfnehehitter for Superior 3 dirty
and iswisss underworld, got his dusky
clients before Justice French. After
solpminous testimony was in, Justice
French said THAT he would take the
eases under advisement. Late last week
he decided that the women were not
guilty. This indicates that Justice
French does not put much faith in the
testimony Of Mayor BaIters sleuths
aud that il is very difficult to convict
q diseiple Of low moral endsavor in
Justice French 3 court. ]. Hoimquist, q
frequenter Of Madam Curtis place was
fined go. - '~
Cora Thompson, a white woman who
has rediight dive at 1921 Fifth st.,
is credited with having Negro man for
q lover. She is fat, forty, and fair,
vesy fair, in her business, If not in
featuree. She was so soeiab!e that she
actually showed the sleuths two long
scars on either side Of her abdomen
where the surgeons had operated on her
person. Her bail was set at $500 and,
as these lines are written, her fate has
not been decided. Il cost Alfred An
derson SIS to be caught rs a frequenter
of Madam Thompson,s resort.
Msdge Mills was held under $500 BAH