San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-08
LEGAL WR|TS
Hamper CITY
! WAR ON VICE.
Ha5eas Corpus Allows Wom-
en- to Be Removed
From Jail.
ICONFER WITH JUDGES
VIII Build "Sun Parlor"
for Women if Nee
essary.
IVICE WAR USELESS
Law Says Women Must Be
Kept in Hospital, Not
Jail.
VICE WAR USELESS

A conference between city officials and
district judges to see IL women ar
rested and held on hospital warrants
cannot be kept in custody, was ar
ranged for Monday afternoon by Phil
Wright, police and fire commissioner.
A score of women arrested Saturday
night and Sunday in the vice crusade
INSTITUTED by Chief of Police A. o. Van
Ripper, were released on habeas corpus
lwrits a short while after they were
s4-r~Tf in Jail
Although the city Jail is held by city
officials to be sanitary enough for wom-
en- held on hospital certificates, yet, if
necessary. "sun parlor" will be con-
structed on the roof of the police sta
HONS where inmates of the Jail may get
but in the sunshine This "sun par
Ior, would be built on top of the de-
.tectiye office and would have a south
BERN exposure. 1t would be fitted with
comfortable chairs and glassed in so that
. all women inmates of the Jau cOuld
serve their sentences under the most
.hcalthful conditions.
Wright Behlnu van hl9tT'' =.
DESPITE the legal obstruction, Chief
Nan Ripper reiterated his determination
Monday that undesirables will feel the
Effects of the most drastic enforcement
hi law San Antonio has attempted: PM
Wright, fire and police commissioner,
S standing squarely back OF Chlet van
|aiper's fight TO rid the city OF wee, anu
lt his instance conference was held az
central police headquarters M9nda y
Forenoon, attended by Mayor u. Il.
Black and Major Bayliss OF Fort sam
Houston. -,
"JJnless we find some way to hold
hose women in JAIL" Commissioner
Wright declared. "a war. on vice is prac-
a waste Of energy. Little can De
hccomplished when, as fast as police put
hem in jail. lawyer is permitted 10
Eecure their freedom by habeas corpus
ISrits."
Inspect City Jail.
The technically. upon which the
yomen taken into custody for, health
Warrants escape Jail is the ruling OF
he court that they must be contlheu
In n hospital and not jail.
In nm effort OF overcome this Com
missioner Wright announced Monday
le is willing to permit a judicial ex-
limitation of the clinic quarters OF the
}ity Jail, as TO healthful surroundings
kSl-is willing to construct ROOT sun
larlorp in connection with the city
<hil for the benefit of this class OF
3emale prisoners. A committee, con-
listing of the commissioner, Mayor
BLACK and Major Bayliss will wait
mon District Judges Minor, Anderson
End Tayloe Monday afternoon and lay
before them the contemplated plans.
An inspection of the female quar-
| hrs of the Jail was made by Major
tayliss. Mayor Black and Commission
n Wright Monday. 1t was pronounced
thoroughly healthful. In the event the
sun parlor" plans meet with the ap-
roval of the district judges. thereby
lacing the detention of women in the
lii quarters as within the meaning OF
/ he law, work on this addition TO the
Bill. Commissioner Wright announced,
i'll begin Immediately.
Fifty-five arrests we're made by
blice and detectives Saturday and
unday and with but few exceptions.
bose taken into custody were habitues
the underworld Charges Of solicit
9, street walking. violations of the
lti-vice ordinance. vagrancy and ar
sts on health warrants were filed
sainst % women. Associates of the
males were booked on yagrancy
harges, while others arrested were
poked on charges of drunkenness or
huor violations, the latter being de-
lined for transfer to prohibition
|sents. a..-., .-
Those who went to trial in the cor
,ratiOn court Monday were fined in
ms ranging from s. to $50.