Show A DSGRACffUL SCENE OCCURRED AT TH CANNONBALL CANNON-BALL SALOON LAST EVENING A Drunken Girl Creates a Disturbanca at the Place Arrested With a Companion The Cannon Ball saloon was the scene of a disgraceful proceeding early last I evening The attention of Detectives Sheets and Raleigh was directed to an unseemly disturbance in the resort and with the aid of Acting Chief Rhodes and Patrolman Roberts a raid was made on the place The disturber proved to be a young girl of 14 years of age who was in a maudlin state of intoxication She was taken to the police station with her companion a girl about five years her senior The former gave her name as Helen McKay and the latter as Dottie Russell but of course these are assumed the offenders of-fenders being the daughters of two old and wellknown families The Russell girl was charged with prostitution and the other with drunkenness Friends appeared at the station after the lapse of an hour or so and bailed them out When the McKay girl was taken into custody she told the officers that she created the disturbance because one of the saloon patrons had debauched her in a wine room and refused to respond to her demands When the arrest was made it is said that threats and bribes were resorted to to induce Patrolman Roberts to go easy The affair having occurred before be-fore 9 oclock no charge can lie against the proprietors for permitting females to frequent the saloon but other means are applicable for compelling an observance ob-servance of the ordinances in the interests inter-ests of decency and morality |