15 procurists of young girls for houses of ill fame and
prostitution arrested and fined.
$8,000 bribe offered Detective Wooldridge, September 27,
1895, by Mary Hastings, who kept a house of prostitution
at 128 Custom House place. She went to Toledo, O., and
secured six girls under age and brought them in the house
of prostitution.
One of the girls escaped in her night clothes by tying a
sheet to the window. There were six in number, as follows:
Lizzie Lehrman, May Casey, Ida Martin, Gertie Harris,
Kittie McCarty and Lizzie Winzel.
After Mary Hastings was arrested and she found out that she
could not bribe Wooldridge she gave bonds and fled. Some
months later she was again arrested, and the case dragged
along for two years.
The witnesses were bought up and shipped out of the state.
The case was stricken off, with leave to reinstate. It is
said it cost her $20,000.
Four notorious negro women, footpads and highway robbers,
arrested by Detective Wooldridge, whose stealings are
estimated by the police to have been over $200,000. The
following are the names of the women arrested: