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Show HERE'S A PRETTY MESS! Hampton Does Not Deny the Dirty Work, and Plenty of Witnesses Confirm It. 3Irs. Fields Was to Get 825 a Head for Mormon, Jew or Gentile. Full Details of the "Detective" and Prostitutes' Conspiracy Crop Out in Court To-Day. The examination of Mrs. Fields in the Hampton case was continued yesterday afternoon after the Democrat went to press. The witness admitted sending two notes and Soliciting men to visit her house. Mr. Varian showed the witness a note and a card addressed to Mr. McKay, which she owned she had written, also a newspaper advertisement. Witness I called at Mr. McKay's office, and I also called on the Governor; I left my card at the printing office when I went to put my advertisement in ; I don't remember whether I sent Mr. Lan-nan Lan-nan a note or not ; he called one evening ; the money all came from Mr. Hampton ; the house was rented in the name of Fiddler; Fid-dler; I was living in the same house with Fiddler; I got my furniture from Din-woodey's; Din-woodey's; Mr. Hampton told me to go there and get it; I paid the first $25 on it, and I think Mr. Dinwoodey took it back. I left about September 1st. Q. Did Mr. Hampton tell you to go? A. When he took the furniture and locked up the house I had to go. He let me have the money to go away to San Francisco. Q. What did you do while you were in that house next to Secretary Thomas' ? Did you keep a house of assignation or prostitution? A. I don't know the difference dif-ference ; I suppose it would be called a house of prostitution. Women came and went; I know a woman called Bailey; I got acquainted with her at the City Hotel. She staid over night at my house once or twice. Q. At the time you were there and before that, were you not engaged in the business of prostitution ? CROSS-EXAMINED BY MR. SHEEKS. Came here from Leadville in November, Novem-ber, 1884 ; had never been here before ; went to work for Mrs. Admire, and stayed with her over a month ; then went to the Metropolitan Hotel and stayed there all winter; then went to Ogden for a week, came back and went to the City Hotel. During all that time I didn't know Mr. Hampton ; first saw him to know him on the corner below the hotel ; he was in a buggy ; it was agreed that he should meet me there ; don't remember what he said there; met him the second time at the same place ; this was the next evening at 8 o'clock ; then went with him to a place next to the Firemen's Hall ; four persons came in by the back way ; Mr. Salmon was one of them, Smith another, and two others I don't know ; that's were our contract con-tract was made ; I saw -Hampton a day or two after that ; there was always some of the officers with him ; I never had any one with me ; he said he would give me more money than he had promised to do at first ; I saw him every once in a while after that, to get money from him; I never saw him at the house near Thomas' ; I kept that house about six weeks, the other one not quite a month. Q. Had you not rented the house opposite op-posite the -Continental before you saw Hampton? A. No, sir, I had not. -At the time of my first talk, when' Salmon and Smith were there, and an old gentleman gen-tleman I don't know, Hampton said ' he would give me $300 if I would get the Governor; I did not tell Hampton that I was the keeper of a house of ill-fame. I told him I was willing to keep a house for him not for myself ; I didn't pay for the furniture ; at least not out of my own money.' Q. Wasn't it the understanding that you were to receive so much money for each man caught there. A: I wasn't to make any reports. Here Mrs. Fields' tongue became uncontrollable, un-controllable, and among other things she stated that she didn't know what they wanted the men caught for; they told her they wanted something against them to keep them off juries, and they wanted to catch the Governor so that they could get their men out of the Penitentiary. That's what they told- me, said she. It was their house, not mine. Court convened at 10 o'clock this morning, morn-ing, and OFFICER WILLIAM SALMON Was placed on the stand. Varian Your name is William Salmon? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know the house by Secretary Secre-tary Thomas' ? A. I do. Q. Have you been at that house be tween the dates of last April and the first of September? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know the woman who testified tes-tified yesterday ? A. I do. Q. Did you see her at that house? A. Yes. Q. Did you see any other woman there ? A. I saw a girl. Q. Did you see men have intercourse with these women ? A. Not with both of them. Q. With one of them ? A. Yes, with one of them. Q. Did you pay money to the woman Fields? A. Ten dollars. Q. Did you see anyone else pay her money? A. Yes, Mr. Hampton. - Q How much did he pay her? A. He gave her money two or three times $150 the first time. Q. Was it in the house opposite the Continental? A. Yes, sir. Q. Was the Fields woman living there ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you observe any conduct on her part? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know what the agreement was between Hampton and the woman? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you hear him agree to give her money? A. Yes, sir. Q. Was there not a house to be opened and fixed so as you could watch proceedings? A. No, sir. Q. What was agreed to on the part of Hampton and this woman? A. We were to have the privilege of going into the house when we wanted to. . Q. Was it agreed between Hampton and the woman that she should open a house of prostitution? A. No, 6ir. Q. What officers were with you at the time the contract was made? A. Officers Pickett, Burt, and Mr. Hampton. POLICEMAN JOHN PICKETT. Have heard part of Officer Salmon's testimony ; was in the houses during last I September in company with Salmon and others ; saw prostitution going on ; knew the woman's reputation before going i there ; saw immoral practices going on in the Fields' house. Excused. COMMISSIONER WM. M'KAY Was called to the stand and stated that he lives in . the city ; recognized the ! Fields' letter submitted to him by Mr. Varian as corroborative evidence in the case. Received the letter on the 23d of last July; a messenger boy brought the note to him and he answered it with a reserved copy. Saw the Fields woman last. July; she came to his office in answer an-swer to the note. The defense moved the Court to strike out all the -testimony adduced to-day as coming from the woman Fields in the way of notes and statements. Overruled bv the Court. "Mr. McKay continued : She came into my office; I was the first one she met there. She said "Is this Judge McKay." I replied it was. She said, "This is Mrs. Fields." She said she wanted to see me privately, - and I followed her into the back room of my offices. She closed the doors and I asked her what business she desired attended to. She said a mutual friend had sent her there to get legal advice ad-vice as to the law concerning the keeping of a house of ill-fame. I told her I was not in the habit of treating such matters, which were very offensive. She again refused re-fused to tell me who sent her there and again asked me in reference to the law, and stated that she was sorry to trouble me, but so long as she was present she would like to have me inform , her. She further stated that she had a mutual friend who would start her in the business busi-ness if the law would protect her. I asked her again who sent her, but she refused to tell me. She said she thought she could make money here if the Gentiles Gen-tiles would help her out as thevMormons were rather against the business, as she had understood, I asked her where she thought of opening a place and she said she contemplated starting the Metropolitan Metro-politan Hotel. I told her if she was brought up" before me on such a charge and found guilty that I would, if the law warranted it, send her to the penitentiary for five years. At this she left the room. ' p. n. LANNAX. I live here; am connected with the Tribune; I have been at the house on West Temple street; I went there in answer to a note sent me ; 'don't remember remem-ber the name signed to it; it was this year, in the summer time ; a woman met me at the door; I asked her if she was so-and-so, and what I could do for her ; she Baid much, if you wish ; she was a stranger stran-ger here ; she was fond of fun, and had heard he was, and she was going to have a beautifully formed girl there from Denver Den-ver in a day or two ; he said he might call in a day or two if she got the beautifully beauti-fully formed girl. MR. JOHN SCOTT. I was a member of the Grand Jury discharged dis-charged last Saturday ; Mr. Hampton was up for investigation and sworn as a witness. wit-ness. I remember that Mr. Varian told Mr. Hampton that the house of ill-fame was about to be investigated. Hampton stated that he had made an arrangement with this woman ; that he had paid her something like $400. The object given was to Objected to. . Excused. MR. MORRIS R. EVANS, Foreman of the last Grand Jurv, was called, and testified that he helped investigate inves-tigate the Hampton case ; upon Mr. Hampton entering the room the prosecuting prosecut-ing attorney stated to him that the investigation in-vestigation of these houses would embrace em-brace a broad scope, and that he need not testify unless he desired to ; Hampton Hamp-ton said he had arranged with this woman to open a house of prostitution to attract people and had paid the parties some $400 ; think he said he had made arrangements with these women to entrap en-trap men; George Harris was clerk of the Grand Jury at the time and took notes of what was testified. FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS, City Prosecuting Attorney: Don't know that any complaints were filed against parties visiting these houses, as I was absent ab-sent at the time ; gave him money to de tect prostitution and punish men indulging indulg-ing in crime, and as I knew a great many young girls were walking the streets and being seduced in low houses, I gave Mr. Hampton something over $500 of my own means to suppress the matter. , MARSHAL PHILLIPS. I don't know that any complaints were filed against the frequenters of these houses of prostitution. MR. FRANK ARMSTRONG. ' lama lumber merchant and Selectman Select-man of Salt Lake City ; know Mr. Hampton Hamp-ton ; Kad no conversation with him about funds to start a house. j HENRY DINWOODEY. I am in the furniture business in this citv. I sold some furniture to Mrs. Mc-Call, Mc-Call, and afterward attached it at the place named in the mortgage. MR. W. F. RAYBOULD. Was a member of the last Grand Jury; was present during the investigation of the cases resulting in the indictment now on trial. Saw Mr. Hampton there as a witness, and heard the prosecuting attorney's remarks to him before he was questioned ; heard Mr. Hampton say he paid Mrs. Fields about $400 for the purpose pur-pose of entrapping people into the houses opened for the purpose of catching certain cer-tain individuals ; he said he didn't give it, but Mr. Armstrong gave $500 as a private pri-vate donation ; I cannot attempt to give the- precise language Mr. Hampton used ; what I have given is the substance of what the defendant testified to; Hampton Hamp-ton said the woman Fields was engaged to detect and report the men she was hired to catch visiting the houses, which were hired for that purpose and furnished. fur-nished. -Motion to strike out this evidence was denied by the Court. WILLIAM PITT,' Proprietor of the Overland House, and a member of the last Grand Jury : Heard Hampton's testimony before that body when investigating the conspiracy cases against Hampton and the two women, Davenport and Fields. In substance, Mr. Hampton stated that Frank Armstrong Arm-strong had donated $500 and he had furnished fur-nished the 'woman Fields between $400 and $500 with which to rim the place U8t south of Secretary Thomas's.- , . ' -' . JUSTICE A. SPIERS, The police magistrate," stated that some of the complaints for the arrest of visit- ors to the houses of prostitution were ! sworn out before him and filed in his i Office. Most of the complaints have been j sent up to the Third District Court. Mr. Varian asked that they be produced, and Clerk McMillan at once presented the sensational documents. Judge Spiers j examined one of the several complaints j bearing the signatures of the witness and j B. Y. Hampton, which the prosecution j entered as evidence. Objected to by the i defense and denied by the Court. j . M. L. CUMMINGS, A real estate agent: Knew the 'dobe 1 house on the south side of Secretary j Thomas's; the house belongs to Mrs. j Mary Hempstead, and witness as agent ! rented it to a Mr. McCall, who was or- j dered to leave on account of rumors that ! he was keeping a house of assignation, j and he did so the latter part of last ! August. , SECRETARY THOMAS, Of Utah Territory: Resides at 244 S. ' West Temple street ; knows the house adjoining his on the south side ; on '. several occasions both "he" and his wife j were disturbed by loud and obscene ' language ; heard voices of men and women there at all hours of the night. Officer Salmon, recalled: Am familiar 1 with the interior of the Fields' house;" believe Hampton and I were there a day or two after the house was started; don't : know when the alterations were made in ' the house ; the observations were made Objected to and sustained. Mr. Varian announced that the prose- ! cution had followed the case in evidence ! far enough, and were ready for the j wind-up. . I Court adjourned to resume the trial at I 2 o'clock. The court-room was again filled with spectators this afternoon, when the defense de-fense commenced. - MR. T. C. ARMSTRONG Was called as the first witness, and said: He didn't suppose he would know Mrs. Fields by sight; my partner, Mr. Butler-field, Butler-field, rented the house opposite the Continental Con-tinental to Mrs! "Fields. B. Y. HAMPTON Said he was the defendant in this case. First saw Mrs.' Fields on the 12th or 13th of last June, at the jailor's house, in company com-pany with Mr. Salmon ; I made arrangements arrange-ments with her that she could do some detective work; and she said if I would give her $25 1l head for every person caught she would work, and I engaged her; I understood she had a house at the time, and T made no arrangements arrange-ments of that kind with her; Mr. Salmon, Bateman and Smith were present at the time. I simply offered her $25 for all who came Mormon, Jew or Gentile. I had no control nor anything any-thing to do with running the house. I paid no rent nor arranged for any to be paid. The only money I paid her was for detective service $25 for each affidavit. affida-vit. Never showed her Secretary Thomas' Thom-as' house. Before the Grand JuryI stated, so far as I know, that Mr. Varian said my name would probably be called, and that I could decline to answer if I wanted to. I told him I had nothing to decline to answer. He started out to ask me if I knew Mrs. Davenport, Fields and several other women ; if I knew who rented the house in question. Objected to by the prosecution. Overruled. He asked me if I: knew who furnished the provisions that went into the house, and of the internal- arrangements. He then asked me if I had paid her any money, and I told him I had paid her about $400 for detective work; he then asked me from what source I received my money ; I told him there was an association of citizens who furnished it ; I told him I did not know who opened the house; I never sent a guard to any of the houses, and never went to the house south of Secretary Sec-retary Thomas' ; I exercised no control over her nor dictated what kind of a house she should run. I was out of the city at the time, and the Grand Jury were mistaken in what they say I said. I never had any conversation with Mrs. Fields about this matter in the absence of witnesses. When I made the contract with her both she and Mr. Salmon stated that she had a furnished house. Cross-examined by the prosecution : Do not remember stating any amount of money when you asked me about Mr. Armstrong's donation. I live in Salt Lake City and have been license collector since 1873; have been deputy sheriff, police officer and constable. I was last engaged as regular policeman in 1883. Two years ago I ceased to be deputy sheriff and ' constable. I haven't been actually discharged -from service and make arrests when called on. As license collector I am connected with the auditor, and have no connection with the sheriff and police officers. I was spoken to about this detective business the latter part of May. Mr. Solmon . and I were specially employed, and I carried the - money. The scheme of detective service I was to do consisted of detecting crime, especially with men and women. When I first commenced this business I had lived here about thirty years, and knew all the haunts of vice by reputation. I knew Kate Flint's house for many years. She is reported to be well off; it was a part of the scheme to suppress that house ; I hadn't got that far yet; I didn't know there was a house " next to Secretary Thomas and one below the Metropolitan used for vice at that time ; the City Marshal, Mar-shal, Mayor, Councilmen and heads of the city government had nothing to do with the work so far as I know, and none of the money was to come from the public pub-lic fund ; Armstrong was the only man who paid me any money; he paid me some $750. Varian Mr. Armstrong testified that he gave you but $500. . "Well, he paid me $500 at one time and $250 at another." Objected to by the defense as being immaterial how much money was paid. Denied by the Court. "I paid Mrs. Fields between $300 and $400 ; the balance of the expenditures I put up, and expect to be reimbursed by Mr. Armstrong. I was not advised as to where the money was to come from. I Understood it "as a contribution. The scheme was left entirely to my management manage-ment and Mr. Salmons. He is" under the direction of Mr. Phillips. I planned the campaign with Mrl Salmon. We did not contemplate the bringing in of women. I was in San Francisco July 3d last. I carried car-ried some money there with , me, but entered into no arrangement with a woman there. I saw Mollie Woodward, a reputed prostitute, in San Francisco about five minutes : I cave her no monev. I know Mr. Goldstone over there ; saw him with Mollie Woodward ; had no business with him, but I did arrange with him for a female detective. detec-tive. Objected to by the defense ; denied. The talk with Mollie Woodward contemplated con-templated that she should come to Salt Lake to do this detective business. This scheme did not contemplate, the opening of houses, and I proposed to leave heron the outside. I had a pass over the Central Cen-tral Pacific road from Mr. Armstrong. We contemplated punishing men frequenting fre-quenting houses of ill-fame. |