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Show RED LP! Willi HAS GONE OVEI Alleged Illness of "Belle Lop don" Causes Postponement fo January 12. MAYOR BRANSF0RD AND ll OTHERS ARE IN C0Dl Answer Is Filed liy DcfcndanSI Wliieli Makes Very Infer-esting Infer-esting Reading. ifj-j fef Mrs. Dora P. Topham, alias "Bay1 London, " queen of Ogden 's underwoflR :'l and would-bo high priestess of SjP- ' Lako City's now tenderloin districtmi, ill at tho .function City and tho nW- . noted stockade ense was put over unR January 12, in Juilgo Charles. Morse's division of tho third distr?;. court Wednesday morning. mRViI The case- was fxhcduled fo cornel on an order to compel tho defend aS:-;, the Citizens' Investment company iiK? ; others, to show causo why the icstTfjfc1, t ing order, issued last week, should 3$r)i be continued in effect pending vff final termination of tho action. Bujjf show if possible that tho now wjL:; -side stockado is intended for immoj5, purposes, the plaintiffs had siihpoenjfr' fifteen witnesses, among them !MaK(., .Tohn S. Bransford, Councilman. Martin, cx-couneilmnn Martin E. MvfvW vov. ex-Chief of Police Tom. D. PJ O. IS. Raybould, secretary of tho OKCEVi zens' Investment company, .Doraflfejlflt Topham and several women of fer-city's fer-city's uuderworld, to tell what ts?5,15' know about the west side red light irTIic trici, and scores of morbid curioslgfard seekers had gathered in tho court iq, in anticipation of a treat, but tfip. .. were doomed to disappointment. MOo't E. A. Walton, attorney for tho "wran fense, stated to tho court that tho "IM.. don" woman was seriously ill in fc.!' den, and asked for a continuancofM1"1 those grounds. The plaiuhffs did grreeo contest tho request and tho continuaWj-j was readily granted. Mr. Walton s- he has not heard from his client fojjjp051 week, but that she is not confinedfticc?s the hospital from her illness. Tfef-Appoared Tfef-Appoared Against Will. Kttl: Most, of the underworld deniz3fij subpoenaed as witnesses, appeared fojjt -present much against their will. l Martin, architect for tho stockade, tJ'" present with a long roll of plans. BKn. both Mayor Bransford and cx-Oli:-1 Pitt were there, Mayor BransfortlJ1-' alono just inside the rail, and witrnMb the court started to announce tl'atWftno case would be continued, the maW; started out and was half way to door before the first "hear ve ' 'nfegrif the court bailiff rang out. Ex-Ciafcf- Pitt, while the proceedings were go- r on. got. to whispering so loudlv o0y that tho bailiff started for him. .JMi. was stopped by the court's annouOT,,, rnenr. that a continuance would granted. IffiJ! Tho defendants Wednesday monflujiis 1 filed their answer to the complaffijau their demurrer of which, on tho r0"3Xfi that it did not reeiln a sufficient cacni "I of action, was recently denied bv .Tuwls of Morse. The defendants admit ff he erection of the stockade, but deny tjfa. thev intend to place and keep in arai of tho stockade buildings court esaiisrjo i any other lewd women. Tho iyjaa , merit company purposes 1o lease Jt'. buildings in the ordinary course, of bp. u ncss. and not otherwise, to such tenwanu as it may bo able to secure in the o.'i,0 i nary course of business, and notr any specific purpose whatever. excjThoas the general purpose of residence J-commercial J-commercial use, it is set out. ThelSportn fondants further allego .that the jfrin" it not being prosecuted in good lAfa but that Iho plaintiffs are nierely d" fall mics whose names are being uscalude.ari other parties who have .no lnto' cither legal or actual, in the troversv. and who are paving thol''r s penses "of the prosecution for prrwfo can and ulterior motives. . -napless t The answer is .loincd in by allsj-j 1 defendants, except Secretary M; lo bould of the investment company. "liigrar most salient parts of it follow: Either i Answer of Defendants. j5at re These defendants admit that theSj";,. poratlon defendant hns acquired andC "". .owns and Is In possession of the W shoe described In the complaint and ajjfjfc to belong to these defendants, therc swer sets forth. M"'! These defendants admit that uppn-'Crv.l land nro many houses or npartme ''4 r admit some of ."aid houses or apartirW two are not larpe, but they deny Ihat aa , the same arc In size about CxS feet.1 'ast Said houses or buildings aro capabKCo, fl belli used for tenement houses and . T dence purposes othpr than for theKnt I commodatlon of prostitutes, 9rccorr Tlies defendants deny that prioiw. , the acquisition by the defendant corner the tlon or defendants' said property. Ifourtcen all tho property In the nelgnoor , thereof was occupied by quiet andv- a'niost i spcctablc fnmllcs, and they aver said neighborhood Is now rcgn.'w.yolca as a neighborhood as clean, moral an, spcctablc. nnd as desirable for rcsldS? fttn purposes as It has bucn for many .corlai heretofore. W.f , Intrusting Denial. jR?S o. They denv that they are thrcataIar to or Intending to use sal,d premises fofcjdor Gi purposes of prostitution, and as to wlW or thev Intend to suffer the sam GDa TVi used for such .purposes they over tha-pDc Citizens' Investment company owns?". premises nnd Intends to lonse the lijWup i In the ordinary course of business fnjpierninn' otherwise, to such tenants as It j. bo able to get. and that are desirably lease said premise? or any of tlio wror'of n for anv- specific purposes whnteyerijft- l"' eept the general purpose of residency grows ordinary commercial purposes. .Cofthr Further answering, the defendants f., w that this suit Is noL prosecuted or bj'pll thn in good faith bv tho record plaintiffs; ifei In: they aro Informed nno bellcve.1?; MI aS on such Information and belief , allege Cxtron the plaintiffs herein arc merely dunl . whose names are being used by t ies parties whose names aiv uiiknowffies ,nri( those defendants, .which said other.4,'' j, 0i . sons have no interest, either actun 1 "'a legal. In this controversy, and whnl Spread n paid and, are now paying tlio u -of this prosecution for private and l,1,?afPCrliti0 P,ThatCSthc plaintiffs herein do noftjjLy would not maintain this suit In ti''S01!' Interest nnd they have not "ifCV'o. Interost to maintain the same for tC'UJagos aelves alone, and they do not reprP la rjua othors than themsolvos similarly offiniined ated. g earl |
