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Show I ' 1111 MINNS FOUND : AND POLICE Mil ENLIVENED : 111 ! II :' v Gus Laka, proprietor ot the Layton 1 J j cafe, a Greek eating house on lower HL , J h Twenty-fifth In police court this I S J in morning, was sent to jail for thirty Kv j days straight jail sentence. John ' Rotolo, an Italian man-about-town, 111 sometimes waiter at Greek' restaur- IN k ants, was assessed a similar punish- j u ment Mrs. Eliso Davis, alias Mabel w ij Adams, waitress and arrested in con- I e j: ''i nectlon with Rotolo, was given a sus- II pended sentence of five days, pending I J i the receipt of a telegram and funds Hl I t , from a sister living in Evanston, Wyo. I 1 f Judge Georgo S. Barker, in passing Ifi ! sentence, declared that some measures IB I must bo . adopted to provent Toreign IBM, restaurant proprietors from employing Hl IS J 1 American girls. He insisted that the Hj IS ! f testimony in the case of Laka, charg- Hj ifi ec tth making improper advances to- IB (? ward Mrs. Mina Rouse, a waitress, jj k showed a degree of demoralization 1 ' that needed immediate and serious at- II j tcntion from the officers. In the case Iff oE Rotolo, the court contented himself IE ,i ( with applying a 30-day sentence be- ; I j cause Rotolo apparently was merely J L an imported libertine. f v Tho disposition of the Davis wom- I Vt ' an's case relu're(l greater delicacy. I jj p Although the mother of two children, r II r, J the widow of two husbands, her con- I I t dition demanded a treatment that was 1 fi fj difQcult to handle outside tho medi- III cal profession. The stork Is expected Hl I - " within a comparatively short time and II I:' jail was no placo for her. Also she was Hl 1 1 bright and talked with the precision & . L and accuracy of a university student I Jj She also was pretty, in a sort of baby- 1 1 i ish way, and plainly not of the same i ( J class as the other defendants. lj i j "W, II. Reeder, city attorney, proso- t 1 1 cuting the case, recommended that I I the court order her detained until II ' relatives could be advised and some ' i) disposition made of her. This sugges- . J ,M tlon was endorsed by Sergt. Jerry j Kelllher and Detective J. L. Hobson, J J I tho two ofTicers used by tho city in , 1 1 prosecuting tho cases. H i I "I do not think the girl should be 1 1 Hi turned penniless into the streets and a ' jail sentence cannot apply for obvious I reasons of humanity," said Attorney 1 1 I Reeder. "I am willing to pay the costs I - of telegrams in an effort to locate her , L" relatives that she may bo returned to them." H k Tho court agreed that this probably III was the logical manner and appended , jj a 5-day suspended sentence. Ho in- ; tllj ' structcd the officers, however, to de- ' jn tain her at the jail pending definite I I F N advices from the sister at Evanston. L. j The three cases all intermingled. R' Hi The Davis woman appeared a witness 1 1 with tho Rouse woman against Laka. Following Laka's sentence, tlio Davis H h woman and Rotolo was placed on trial. HJ t The testimony described a condition H ) III oC tho vllest character, if true, and the Hl j m court thought sufficiently of the testi- J XT mony to convict upon it. Tho court, at least, believed it true. Two of tho accused got thirty days; they will be good Cor a month. The other, a woman, will be deported. That is the summary and the effort to increase in-crease the moral tone of the city was 100 per cent The campaign, say the police officers, only has begun. |