Show t c IE DiVES OF CHICAGO flow Young Olrls RIC Riiiucti in f the Notorious Deus of Thai City I j i You are responsible before God and man for the ruin of that girl said Jus j tfce Foote to Roger Plant at the Armory Police Court yesterday I is a worse I Crime than theft or murder How can you do it man Plant is the proprietor proprie-tor of t disreputable saloon at 529 South Clark street and was before Justice Foote on two chargers selling liquors to minorS and keeping a disorderly house J Andrew Paxton of the Citizens League 3 prosecuted The only witness was the girl alluded to Annie Peterson fifteen I ear old and tolerably good looking She was flashily dressed m bright blue satin mId seemed to have small conception concep-tion of the depravity r with which she was II indirectly accused She testified that alfe had lived in Plants house two r months him and had often bought beer for himA lady who fjaid she was her sister fetched her inzaid Plant U A lady Bah 1 paid the Court contemptuously con-temptuously No decent woman would go into your saloon If a saloonkeeper wanted to be square and right he would never let a petticoat across his threshold and Im not a fanatic or a bigot in morals myself either Why Ive seen little hits of irs not big enough to reach tho counter coun-ter without Standing on the railing go into in-to a saloon and get beer in a pail Even up whqre I live at Twentyninth and f State I 1 can Bee such things and its a shame tuid outrage I have sPell I with my own eyes and yet the man had the effrontery to stand up before me and swear it never occurred I tXl parents send tho children said Plant and ninetyJiine out of every hundred i dred saloonkeepers will serve thpin And thats the way children are first put on the pafh to eternal ruin said the Court They go Into saloons where two thirds of all tlC words spoken are all Tile and profane and get their young minds poisoned I believe with Bishop Ireland that reform must begin with the children Im an outandout Democrat and believe I be-lieve in personal liberty but I dont believe be-lieve in the liberty that lets children and I girls and women into places like yours Sir Paxton said the girl had been enticed en-ticed by Plants wife 1o become an inmate I in-mate of the place I Her mother drove her fiom home i I said Plant Then your wile should have driven her back again said the Court You are responsible before God and man for her ruin Look at her there as handsome as God and nature could make her here the girl covered her face and began to soband think of the crime you have committed Man how could you do i I fine you 20 in the one case and 5 in the oilier and you had better not do it I again Plant is said to owiiconsitlefabltt prop i u erlyin f city ihbludingFomenotedas I signation houses Twenty years ago he kept the most notorious den this city ever wasjifllicted with Under the AYiflow jhe corner of Fifth avenue Monroe street Ohicago was finally made too hot 1 for Roger and he went to t LouisA Louis-A case almost as bad was that of Lottie and Lizzie Miller twins 20 year old who had been arrested just after engaging rooms in a house on Fourth avenue They had worked in a cigarbox factory on South Water street and being thrown out of employment had been enticed to the locality stained Justice Foote sent them 10 tie House of the tool Shepherd on fines of 100 each Chicago ITrtM I |