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Thursday, December 20, 1898 MRS. McNEIL ARRESTED Mrs. Martina McNeil, mother of Cora Belle McNeil, the fourteen year old girl who was taken from a house of ill fame by the police yesterday, was arrested yesterday afternoon & spent the night in the lock-up. |
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Melendy on a charge of permitting her daughter to reside
in a house of ill fame & pleading not guilty &
demanding a jury trial, her case was set for January
5th., the court allowing her to go until then on her own
recognizance. The woman denies that the child was in the house with her consent & in a rather melodramatic way thanked God when she was told that the child would be taken to a rescue home. She claimed that the child was willful & while admitting that she knew the girl was at the house on D street said that she had told her not to go there. Against her story is that of the police who say that both mother & daughter are known to have been visitors to & have remained over night in the same house on the lower levels, while the girl herself says that her mother has compelled her to go out on the streets & solicit in order to obtain money to satisfy her craving for drink. The girl is now locked up in the county jail, but will be taken down to the Salvation Army home on the steamer "Pomona" Thursday. |
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| "The Humboldt Times" (Daily)
Eureka, California December 22, 1882 Rachel Sheebener, about 16 years old, bright & intelligent in appearance & lacking boldness of manner, was arrested last Saturday afternoon & booked for the Industrial School yesterday morning. She related to the reporter of this paper the following story. |
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| "Three or 4 days before my arrest I
was decoyed from my home on 4th Street by James Fletcher,
a turner in a 4th Street furniture factory. He promised
me faithfully if I left my home he would marry me &
provide for me. I trusted him & leaving my home, went
to live with him on 3rd Street. I recalled his promise to
me, but he took no notice of it, on the contrary, he
told me he wanted me to go to Humboldt & enter a
house of ill-fame & contribute of my ill-gotten gains
toward his support. I protested, & implored him
to do what he promised. At this he commenced to curse me,
& said he had no more use for me unless I agreed to
throw myself away. Remarking afterward that there were
plenty of other girls who would only be too glad to do as
he bade them. " The girl's case came up before Judge Rix yesterday afternoon, but was continued indefinatly. In view of the distressing circumstances brought to light before the court, Officer Michaels volunteered to take charge of the unfortunate & provided her a home in his family. She leaves the prison today for her new home very willing to behave herself for the lesson she has just been taught. |
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The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka,
California
Sunday, November 28, 1897
Lively Times in Police Circles
Friday night the police made a raid on two houses of ill repute
in the lower portion of the city & arrested a halfbreed &
a negress with them were two consorts, both white. Yesterday
morning one of the women paid a fine & one of the
"gentlemen friends" took 15 days in the County Jail.
The other fellow demanded a jury trial which will be held next
week. He was permitted to visit his usual haunts, but the police
gathered him in again last evening & a charge of being drunk
was registered against him.
"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
May 12, 1893
Suit was commenced in Superior Court by the people vs Edna
Fardner of Ferndale. The complaint alleges the defendant
purchased land in the town of Ferndale on which she erected a
dwelling which was completed on or about the 16th of January 1893
which has since that date, it is alleged, been conducted as a
house of ill fame.
"The Daily Humboldt Standard"
Eureka, California
Friday, June 2, 1893
A BOLD ASSAULT
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This Mrs. Cox considered to be an insult due to Major Wheeler. Last evening Mrs. Cox sent word to the Major by a boy that a lady wished to see him at Kalisher's store. The Major at once responded to the request. Mrs. Cox met him at the door & after a few words she drew a heavy riding whip from her dress & hit the major over the face. The major caught her arm, took the whip away from her & threw it across the street. She then attemped to scratch the major's face with her fingernails. All the time her tongue was not idle & the performance attracted a large crowd. Mrs. Cox said others would feel the effect of her just indignation. |
When Mrs. Cox left the Vance house she went to the Grand & took rooms where she is stopping at present. Mrs. Cox is not a stranger to the people of this city, having been here frequently. She has been married two or three times. It has been reported on the streets that she has left her present husband, but this she denies. It is also reported that she proposes to bring a damage suit against the Vance House for ejectment. Mrs. Cox was seen at the Grand hotel by a "Standard" reporter this afternoon. She gave him a slightly different account of the attack. She states that she addressed Major Wheeler as follows' After stating that he had cast reflection upon her good name & telling him that she would not stand being slandered, she asked him if he had requested her to be removed from the table. Major Wheeler said that he did. She then drew a whip from her dress & hit him. She denies using any profane language. She says that she is going to prosecute the matter to the full extent of the law. She threatens suits against Major Wheeler & the Vance estate. Mrs. Cox went to the Vance House today & demanded her dinner, which was given her. She then went to the Grand hotel & ate another dinner. She says she has sent for her husband to come in & when he gets here she proposes to make it warm for some people. |
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"The Ferndale Enterprise"
Ferndale, California
Friday, August 17, 1894
A movement looking to uplift the morals of Rohnerville
was inaugerated last Saturday afternoon by a committee of ladies
taking it upon themselves the duty of visiting certain
houses of questionable repute which are known to exist in their
midst, with the view of inducing the inmates to abandon their
lives of shame & to have the houses closed. After the visits
had been made, & proven unsucessful, it was decided
to call a citizen's meeting at the town hall to adopt some plan
for ridding the town of these places. The meeting was called to
order by Rev. Emma Pow Bauder. After considerable
discussion it was finally decided that a meeting for men only be
called to adopt some definite plan of action.
"The Daily Humboldt Times"
Eureka, California
Thursday, April 4, 1895
JUDGE CARR LOST A CUSTOMER
When the doors were thrown open yesterday morning for the second
day of Judge Carr's grand opening, Miss Viola Foster was
on hand with a bevy of fair damsels from the tenderloin precinct
to see about her bargain in peace disturbing. Evidently
she had been thinking the matter over & was rather reluctant
to invest in such an expensive article in face of the hard times.
In her dilema she applied to six good & true friends of the
male persuasion to decide for her. As a result Judge Carr lost a
customer & still has on his hands a superfine article of
colored peace disturbance which can be had at a bargain, for the
six friends decided that Viola did not need it & she
triumphantly drew down her $10 installment. Being heavier in
pocket & she was lighter in heart, & in the exhuberance
of her joy extended an invitation to her six friends to smile
with her in front of Tommy Nash's saloon mirror, an invitation
which they were not slow in accepting.
"The Daily Humboldt Standard"
Eureka, California
Friday, June 5, 1891
It is asserted (and denied) that Mrs. Ella Belle McKelvey has
been expelled from the Presbyterian church for unbecoming conduct
at Far Rockaway Beach. The denials emanate mostly from Mrs.
McKelvey herself, who is spoken of as a plump & pleasing
blonde. The affirmations are chiefly from church members, who
saw her in the scanty bathing suit of black flannel. The
action of the Deacon who tacked up the suit in question on a wall
where everybody could see it, was certainly inexcusable.
FROM, "The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Friday, November 6, 1891
Annie Holden, who formerly lived in Rohnerville, but who took up
her residence below some months ago, has gone astray. She
was arrested in a house of ill-repute the other day, & held
to answer to the charge of vagrancy.
"The "Daily Humboldt Times"
Friday, November 4, 1887
The county jail is crowded at present, so much so that the
Sheriff has taken Mary Faulconer out of jail & locked her up
in a room on the second floor. The prisoners seem to have
a number of acquaintances & entertain a coterie of their
female friends almost every afternoon.
"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka,
California
Tuesday, August 21, 1894
A SERIOUS CHARGE
Madeline Evans, a French courtesan was arrested yesterday
afternoon charged with battery against city dog marshal! Hank
Peterson. The woman & a man, supposed to be her paramour,
were walking down the railroad track yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by an unlicensed dog, when Marshall Peterson pounced
on him. Of course the woman tried to regain possession of her dog
& while struggling for it the man took a hand in the row,
picking up a cobblestone he struck the marshal! on the head with
it, felling him, when the woman threw herself on the prostrate
cripple, & while she scratched & gouged him, the man put
in a kick whenever an opening was offered. While the dog was no
less active in trying to get a piece of the unfortunate
marshall's flesh. There is no telling what the outcome would have
been had not some men from the depot come to the marshall's
assistance & driven off his assailants, including the dog,
who took their heels down the track. Between gouging, biting
& kicking, Hank was a sorry looking spectacle when the
rescuers assisted him to his feet, & he was compelled to seek
the services of a surgeon to sew up a bad looking cut on the top
of his head. The woman was locked up in the county jail last
evening in default of $100 bail, but her paramour had not been
captured up to an early hour this morning.
"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Friday, December 1, 1893
WHO WAS SHE
In San Francisco last Monday, the trial of the suit brought by
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Coon to compel Captain Johnson to pay them
$1142 for the support of an illegitimate child of which the
defendant is alleged to be the father, was begun in Judge Hunt's
court.
The child in question was born in 1888 to one Nettie Tribble, an
immoral woman, at the house of the plaintiffs on Howard
street, but the defendant positively denies that he was the
father. It appears that the mother, Nettie Tribble,
sailed as stewardess with Captain Johnson & his wife
on the schooner, W. F. Witeman, during a voyage to Australia
& back, & it was after the return of the vessel to this
port that the child was born.
"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka,
California
April 24, 1884
Ordinance Number 54 of this city makes it unlawful
for any female person, between the hours of 8 o'clock P. M. &
6 o'clock A. M. to be in any public drinking saloon, etc., where
vinous, malt or spiritous liquors are sold or given away.
Upon complaint under this ordinance in Judge Howard s Court, Mary
Lockhart, Gertie Gilmore, Mollie Mallory & Lizzie Maybers
were convicted, & sentenced to a fine of $10 each, or five
day's imprisonment. The fines were paid into Court.
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