The discovery that public school children frequent immoral places creates a startling sensation in Columbus, O.
From the startling developments which have been in process of unfolding for the last few days at Columbus, O., says the Journal of that town, and which reached a culmination yesterday, it would seem that the well disposed missionaries have found a fruitful field at home. Conscientious Christian ladies have been stricken with horror in the past few days when they were told that public school pupils—boys and girls—had been for several weeks previous engaged in the pastime of visiting a resort on Town street which sails under the front name of saloon and restaurant, but has rear establishments with stalls and booths and all the paraphernalia which go to make up and improvised place of assignation, where drinking and intoxication may be imagined as among the milder crimes indulged in.
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, December 22, 1888.
Minnie Hull, a dashing young lady from the watering place, is unjustly or otherwise accused of crookedness.
Miss Minnie Hull, a dashing young lady who for the past four seasons has been one of the belles of Saratoga, was arrested recently at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, by Deputy Sherriff Allen of Saratoga, charged with passing a worthless check for $125 on F. H. Olmstead. Miss Hull was taken to Saratoga where she was released on her own recognizance to appear before the Grand Jury in January. Miss Hill has in the past few years squandered a fortune left to her by a relative. She was divorced about three years ago from Joseph Kuickebacker of Troy, N. Y.
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, November 2, 1889.