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Show TflLEDlTH KaRREX CASE. Was She Bnticed Into a House of Ill-fame Ill-fame and COutragred. The trial of Nellie Davis accused of enticing lidith JKarren of Lehi into a taouse of ill-fame was begun yestlerday at Salt Lake. It is being vield behind closed doors. The Herald til is morning gives the following fol-lowing synopsVs of the evidence offered in the caBe: Sergeant ForQi testified that on the night of November 29th, he found Edith Karren in the housvj, Ho. 54 Franklin avenue, where Mrsi Davi3 lived. Edith was in bed when he) found her. Mrs. Davis' daughter coaiducted the house on Franklin avenuey Sarah L. Karren, said her daughter would be sixteen years old next March. She left home for the 8rst time about six weeks before her misfortune, to stay with a family narded Benion.at West Jordan. Mrs. Benson was the girl's aunt. When she came home after being absent six or seven weeks, she did not appear natural her face was swollen and her lips sc'thed and blue. She complained ?Qedw unwell. un-well. Her conduct 1h6eve? nile at home, was alw' omfD oQ C.H. Karre- i& ioM i he wascitv- Jl.' 'nterese'P ' engaged. te8. ft Hjjpw . . I, ."' j ( I was in a bad state when ha found her. At home she had always been a modest, mod-est, good girl. Edith Karren was next examined. She is a rather good-looking girl of 15, but locks older. She told how she left home to stay with her aunt.MrB. Ben-ion, Ben-ion, and a couple of weeks afterwards came to Salt Lake and worked at the Templeton hotel and other places for a tew weeks. On November 29th,after leaving the botel,she went to an employment employ-ment office to seek employment, and. not being acquainted with the streets in Salt Lake, lost her way and wandered wan-dered into Franklin avenue along in the afternoon. She did not know anything any-thing about the reputation of Franklin avenue. She saw the defendant standing at the door of the house and aeked her to direct her to Second South street. Sbe told the defendant she was out ot employment and the defendant asked her into the house and promieed to help her to get employment. She went in and was introduced to the daughter of the Davis woman. They had some wine and beer and she spent the remainder of the afternoon there, and in the eyening Billy Lynch and another man came to the house. . Tha wine and beer made witness sick and stupid and Lynch took her into a room and they occupied the same bed that night. Croes-sxammed by Mr. -Armstrong, witness admitted that she had been discharged from the Templeton hotel for bad conduct and bad talk. While at the hotel she had several times gone out with one of the bell boys, once to a dance. THE DEFENSE OPENS. Mrs. George Williams, examined Dy Mr. Armstrong, S3id she was chambermaid chamber-maid at the Templeton hotel and worked there while Edith Karren was there. Edith's conduct while at the hotel was bad in the extreme. She used bad and indecent language. Drum Major Fair, a soldier stationed at Fort Douglas, testified that he had seen Edith at the house of ill-fame on Franklin avenue. Her conduct there during ' the evening was lewd pnd lascivious and she tried to induce men who came there to buy beer. Witness was a friend of Minnie, the daughter of the landlady. There friendship was, howeyer, purely platonic. Sergeant Charles B. Hunt, of Fort Douglas, testified that he had been in the house on Franklin avenue on No-veiubwr No-veiubwr 2tn and saw the girl Edith there. - She waB quite lively and familiar fa-miliar with the men who cwne to the house. She danced around and did the "split" act. William C. Jeffrey, a priyate soldier, in reply to Mr. Armstrong, said that he had also been to the Franklin; avenue ave-nue house on the night of November 29th. Edith Karren had acted like the inmates of "sporting houses" generally do. She danced and went through a variety of gymnastic performance. Witness was a friend of Minnie Davis. J udge Howat Was Minnie a sort of daughter of the regiment? "No, not particularly," said witnesB. The case is on again today. |