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CASE SHOWING WHY MAJORITY OF EXPLOITED WOMEN PREFER JURY TRIALS - Y JAfJE WHITAKER In our previous tracing Of the his tory of the exploited wordeh we had tidme to cases , tried in the morals court Judge Uhlir addresses many meet ings Oh the subject of his work in the motels COUft Much newspaper publicity has been given his ,efofm,, work df "placing the girls" oft pfdba tion on their promise to leave the life and having them honor bound to &p pea'rin court on certain days. Yet one thing very noticeable is the number of girls Who prefer to -be tried before a jury of 12 men to "tak ing a chande with the judge." Others who ask jury trials waiVef undecid edly when they are told that the cases Of the men arrested with them will have to go over" in that eVetit ahd they waive the jury fight and Stand trial there to save the Man teeing kept in custody. Men dd hot ask jury trials except in very, very rare Cases. They prefer trial by the Court. Perhaps the following case sheds some lieht on this subject: " Four men and two women their names do not matter Were taken from a fiat On Gfoveland av. The of ficers in the case Wefe tipped off to a -flat in the same buiiding. They found it vacant Up the air-shaft they heard a victfola playing at 1:30 Sunday mdfhihg and some laughter. They went to this fiat. They found there three young fel lows and two women, ahd in a rOOm alone sat a young fellow who was de scribed aS "surly." The officers say the three young men-, told them they had heard the place was a "'good time flat," and that one of the women told them the surly youug fellow was annoying her with his attentions in the abseflde of her husband, a traveling man, and had cut her. I TheV afe before Judge ufilif. One girl we will call A., the other B. A. is perhaps 22 j B. IS" older. Both are modest-looking women, though A. Wears her hair ift afi extreme fashion that detracts from ah otherwise very sweet fdce. . A. WfentS a jUry trial B. Wants a continuance as Qd&s the- man arrest ed with her, charggdWith aiiftOylHg her. fiOth sign jUry waivers that they may get a continuance; A. learhs that if She gets a jUry trial the three young men fhUst be held dver as witnesses, she doesd't know what to dd. She Says She Will waive the jury; she almost appeals to the court tb help hef decide, But in the end stands trial there. The judge questions the three m&n. They started out eabafetihg because they heard that the "Walk-thenldg" dance Was 'peffofffled at a certain 1 isoiiflted eight tiffies that the rjUdge asked, la One Or another va ried form, to the amusement of the entire courtroom, With the exception of the two women on tfi&l: "Walk-the-d0&7 What kind, of- a dance is that? I'd llkfe to know What it is "like. HOW do you dance it?" He is given td understand that it iS a Shady dance, but his interest doesn't Wane. "Did you see the walb4he-dog dand6 at that cafe?" he asks, and repeats it for the next cafe, the while he grins bfdadly. The officers are greatly edified. One volunteers the information that there is afi even more shaay dance called the "dhefnise-tail" datide, and the judge asks the men if they saw this arid every Ohe laughs again, except the women. The questioning of the three men by the judge consumed exactly 32 minutes, ahd this Was the story the naehiold: At the- De Luxe cafe one of them danced With A. She gave him het