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Show H UPHEAVAL, Knights of the Green Cloth aurf Femmes de Ville on the N Ragged Edge. Wholesale Indictments Said to Have Been Fonnd Against Them by The Grand Jury. LIST OF SUPPOSED VICTIMS It Foots Up Seventh -One Men and Women But It Is Probably Incomplete, THE CRUSADE'S OBJECT, It Is Believed That Both Kvils WIQ Be Suppressed in Salt Lake It Creates a Sensation. There is weeping and wailing and tjnash. ing of store teeth among the femmes de ville today, and a quaking of the knees among the knights of the green cloth. The grand jurors are responsible for it all. Ehe report brought in by the inquisitors on Saturday afternoon was a very innocent affair on its face. There was no long dissertation dis-sertation on the immoral concition of the city ; no bemoaning of the f aft that sufficient suffici-ent evidence could not be produced upon which to find indictments, and nothing to indicate what had been done, beyond the bare statement that forty-six indictments had been found under territorial s atutes. And yet to one familiar with those facts which are always public property, that report re-port meant a great deal. It was known, for instance, that but few persous had been held by the lower courts to await the action of the grand jury, and of these eight were United States cases, while nine of the territorial terri-torial cases sent up were ignored. The other territorial cases sent up from the lower courts could not have exceeded twent', which would leave at least twenty-six to be accoun e I for. Of course it never occured to the brainy reporters re-porters of the morning papers that I hese indictments in-dictments were out of the ordinary run, and were not found in cases sent up, for that would have necessitated a moment's thought. It was common knowledge, too, that the inquisitors in-quisitors had had the NYMPHS DU PAVE AND GAMBLERS before them in squads, and the general public pub-lic correctly concluded that the indictments which couid not be accounted f r must of necessity be against that class. Today this is everywhere accepted as the truth of the matter, and those concerned in it are considerably con-siderably agitated over the prospect. The subject is the talk of the town, and the only consolation the sports can find lies in the fact that not more than about twenty of them can be indicted, unless the females have been ignored, which is not the case. A Times reporter called upon Marshal Mar-shal Janney this afternoon, and was by him furnished with the following list of persons, known or supposed to be the PROPRIETORS OF GAMBLING HOUSES. John Doe Sparks, 115 South Main street. Anno Mosheii, 151 South Main street. Thomas McDermott, 167 South Main street. "Shorty" Wade, South Main street. A. B. Gibson and Cai. Woods, 10. 12 and 14 EaSt BofottA 8 tilth Geo. Barr, 143 South Main street. Henrt Nugent and Sam Reggle, Second South street. The keepers of HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION are as follows: Ida Walker, 222 State street. Kittie (Jap) 26 Franklin avenue. Minnie (Jap) 622' Commercial street. May Reynolds, 54 Franklin avenue. Mattie Turner, 243 South Main. Hattie Wilson. 53 Franklin avenue. May St. Clair, Franklin avenue. Lucy Andrews, IB Franklin avenue. Jessie Blake, 166 West South Temple. Lizzie Winters, 148 West South Temple. Maggie Mokhis, Plum alley. Elsie St. Omar. Commercial avenue. GrssiE Blake, Franklin avenue. This foots up twenty-two persons, but it is not claimed that the list is a complete one. It is understood that the inquisitors investigated the matter very thoroughly, and they may have discovered some cases that the police are not aware of are in doubt about. It is reasonably certain, however, how-ever, that ever- keeper of a house of prostitution pros-titution in the city and the proprietors of all the gambling houses are under indictment, and the matter v. ill doubtless come up iu the courts in a few pays. what the effect will be. It looks as though the crusade thus in augurated would result in an almost complete com-plete suppression of the two evils for a time at least, provided that the prosecutions are pushed with the same zeal that the investigations investi-gations have been. |