The Washington times., 1923-03-20
ENDS
HIS WILL
PARTY
Mrs. Wright confronts "other
Woman" and Police Make
Arrests IN Sixth St. House.

Infuriated upon entering the
ssparlorss at 1858 Sixth street
northwest, Petworth, last night
10 find her husband wearing fan
tAstic easy slippers, she says, and
nonchaIantly about to pour coffee
Tor zone of the girls" Mrs.
Gladys Wright posed before Wal
ter Wright aud several other
young raen and women as . spec
ter more to be dreaded than .
raiding party which came on her
heels.
Locked had Tor June.
Sergeant MeQuade and other
members OF the raiding party saw
Mrs. Wright arrive ~ the house AZ
4 taxicab and they ntstoOk her and
the taxi driver for another couple
who frequentAd the house. They
lst her 70 ia ana followed her.
When she gained entrance she
wildly paced before her husband
ana cried:
80 this Is where you are spend
Inc your nights and money.
At this junction, according q
members OF the vice squad, june
Grant, pretty twenty-one-year-old
nanicurist. tripped down the steps
When Mrs. Wright saw June she
shrieked:
$50 you're the woman who IL
robbing me of my husband.
Sergeant McQuade said today
that June evidently had met Mrs.
Wright before, because she indig.
nantly marched up to her and. ac-
cording to the raiders, smacked
her on the face. A free-for-all fight
ensued in which the officers in
stead Of devoting their attention to
arresting the frequenters Of the
''parlors" had to temporarily de-
vote their efforts to saving Mrs.
Wright from bodily harm.
Mrs. Wright told the raiders that
she was sitting in the lobby at the
Howard House at Sixth and Penn
sylvania avenue northwest, when
she heard a taxi driver repeat her
husbands name and the Sixth
street address. She said that she
recognized the address as one she
had found in her husbands pocket.
The raiders say that Mrs. Wright
then told them that she took a
taxicab and followed the one which
her husband had ordered and ar.
rived at the house simultaneously
with the detail from the. Second
and Ninth precinct station houses.
House Well.Known.
The raiders said that Wright
could not find his shoes when it
was time to go to the station.
house. and that Miss Grant eventu.
ally located them behind a trunk
in her room.
The raiding party said that they
had the house under surveillance
for some time, and that they have
evidence to prove that it was a
rendezvous for girls from various
cities to come and stage wild
weekend liquor parties
In Police Court this morning. At
torneys Whalen and O'Connell, rep
resenting Miss Grant, asked Judge
Mcmahon to continue the case and
save his client from forfeiting the
$50 collateral which she deposited
at the Second precinct station on
q charge of maintaining a disorderIy
house. The request was granted.
Two Other Girls Taken.
Two other girls were taken into
custody and turned over to the
wOmens' bureau. They are Louise
Dare, tWenty.one years, of Charles
ton, w. Va, waitress, and
Margaret Vincent, twentv.two
years, a stenographer, who gavc
her address as 1923 Eighth street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Sergeant McQuade confiscated q
rent receipt dated March 10 for
$50 in the house which gave the
name Of Charles A. Gray as being
the tenant at the Sixth street
address. He also took a number
Of letters. One of them was adj.
dressed to Miss Louise McKnioht
whom he said he believed was Miss
Grant