Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1912 — Officer From Lafayette Came for One [ARTICLE]

Officer From Lafayette Came for One

of the Carnival Girls. The four girls and one man connected witoh the carnival tent show that was stopped by the authorities here the 4th, did not get out of town until Friday night, but they kept mighty close indoors at their boardnig house all day Friday. Marshal Mustard received a message from Lafayette to hold one of the girls until an officer could come for her, and a watch was kept on

their boarding place'until.the officer arrived and took her to Lafayette on the milk train, where her mother will make another. effort to reform her. While still under 20, apparently, the girl told the officers here that she had been on the turf for the past five years, and reformation in her case is not likely. ; The rest of the gang were told to get out of town p. d. q. or suffer the consequences, .and one of the girls who said she was from Indianapolis, also left on the milk train, while the man—God save the mark—and the twd other girls secured a rig and drote to Parr and spent the night there. Of course the marshal and maydr will no doubt be criticised in certain quarters for their action- in stopping this “show’/ ind driving the shameless creatures out of town, but their course will be endorsed by all right-thinking people. If we are to have "carnivals," however, we must expect just such specimens ■of the underworld to come here, and the only way to effectually stop them—at least in making public exhibitions of themselve——is, to shut out the carnivals. No legitimate business ever yet made anything out of a carnival except the doctors, who reap their harvest after the carnival has gone.