| Show LEWD ANU AND licentious A 4 chapter of shams from tie the criminal records of logan city two tro cases of rape one one of Pioci thir and one of fornication under jailer consideration last week there are in logon logan as in most places of five or six thousand inhabitants a number of accessible girls and lascivious boys their disgrace ifal conduct has hag been the cause of much alarm on the part of the better class of society and considerable annoyance to the officers m who ho have made special efforts to curb the evil and conquer the vicious boys and girls by invoking the aid of the law parents are to blame in a great measure foi the conduct of their Lh chil dien ilden they may not think so but they are they ale aie either too strict or too indulgent to i busy to advise and loot look after them or too indifferent as to the way or influence in which the family is 9 growing up some fathers and mothers are un unreasonably reasonably sex severe ere and are unsympathetic sympathetic a n in either of m aich cases the confidence which aich should exist between the tha parent and child does not and the child gradually and imperceptibly drifts from the influence of home out upon the sea of passion boys and gh gills Is without that influence a are re it as helpless s as asja 1 I chip without a od t 1 1 rk ocean human n lature ta ture wi r sooner or later and under a wave of disgrace dis giace some one who might have hava been an ornament to society or a credit to friends has sunk from view th through rough the untiring efforts of our civil officers a num number berof of cases have been ventilated recently with mith a view of finding the core of trouble this investigation resulted fiday in in the arrest of mary obrian a young woman of questionable virtue who has figured in our local courts a number dumber of f times as witness or accessory in prosecutions for sexual of tenses the investigation speedily fol followed lomed the arrest with milli the result that mary is now behind the bars awaiting the action of the grand jury on oil a charge of being a procuress enticing young giru girls from home poisoning their minds with lustful ideas and turning them over to some young man with mith whom ehe ebe had p previously ly made a bargain the evidence went to show that the obrian girl induced little peterson Pe terion a norwegian child about fourteen years of age emi emigrated rated recently by counsellor ha ivansen n en of the sixth ward to go out with lou keese who is now dow being tried for attempting to rapo rape her the child it seems was ignorant of any design upon her innocence innocence and willingly went ment but fought like a ti tiger r when she ascertained fe certa ined the truth and succeeded in in gaining her liberty beffie the deed was accomplished accomplish ei the same little girl had been enticed away before by this same mary aerian a nand and turned over to another young man who pitied her innocence and respected bilin himself self too much to do her an injury so lie gave her a lecture regarding her conduct and associations and sent her I 1 home ome how many other cases 0 of f tl this kind can be laid to mary obrian only she can tell but it is thought by the officers that her practice has been going on for some time Cont bowd ois sili alag LEWD licentious continued Cunti nud fram rm la at page some time thoe ago she figured in abo police court on sonic some charge of lend d and lascivious conduct I 1 her female companion was a girl named mosier who was also aiso evidently misled by this same influence at mother time she figured as a principal witness in a fornication case where she was found partially undressed in the aims room while the crime was being committed atto alto ephr she ehe has hag a very unsavory reputation if the of ficeri but keep up tip the work so eo nobly begun they will put in an everlasting check on the licentiousness which in bi too longren longrun long run ram rampant pantin in this oth otherwise ernise model anil and moral city some pimp or procuress is ahi ays ready it seems chenever nh mh enever A sti sit anger comes to town to furnish them with some youn gill for immoral purpose seq one of the circus men inen is 13 also detained in 0 our or county jail awaiting the plea the grand jury on a c charge la aage of fornication alleged to have v it been committed under just jast such circum circuit stances the gill Beith alloth 1 19 but fifteen years of age a mere child to be plying the vocation of a prostitute and yet according to the evidence dence and her own admissions she allowed this cacus employee for a money cons consideration 11 aeration de ration to have intercourse ter course with hei she is in jail too awaiting an older cider from judge smith of the fourth district court to have her placed in the reform school at or ogden den such depravity in one so BO young and apparently well 11 r raised is appalling can on the evening of the after a celebration in the tabernacle square when the crowd had dispersed hito hite cowley a young man hitherto respected took dorothea p petersen e t sell into the square and ravi saied her according to her stor story y told the police immediately afterward wi with ill tears and torn clothes the i I 1 oung man denies the use of foice but the face and hands handa odthe young manthe anguish odthe of the girl immediate immediately lv after curt cadence ence and the face that she informed the officers at once all tend to show chow that the affair war not a matter of mutual agi agreement agie cement ement As a cowley was mag arrested and jailed and at the investigation bound over in the sum dal of one thousand dollars to await the action of the grand jury the end is not dot yet the officers have resol ed to keep keen on until the ev evil I 1 il 16 is roo rooted t e d out lou reese was be placed on oil trial yesterday yeste veste iday and willever whatever the result may be it will be announced to the public through these columns for some time we have been ab elding tho the lan lawless less out cf respect and consideration for their friends and relatives but the matter has gone to too far those who break the law who fullow follow immoral practices are the ones i who he should consider the feelings of their relatives if they disregard the wishes of their frends and ignore the feelings of their wives and parents they have no right to expect us to supply the breach only those who respect their relatives have any right to ask uj to consider them too I 1 henceforth lence fordi the policy of this ibis paper shall be to publish all the facts and shield no one where ier er we me think the public mould be bene fitted by a 1 full knowledge ot the transaction certainly the public should have the names of those who are engaged in the ruination and debauchery of children that they may keep their own dear ones does from the contaminating influence of such association if a man is known so as a libertine there is no excuse for parents allowing their children to be in his company if a woman is h a procuress young girls should shun her as they would a leper and it is the right of parents to know who these people are ind and their duty to acer n tain hether or not their children chili lrea are out with proper companions |
