Din's first appearance in the public record was in 1905, when he appeared in court on charges of keeping a "disorderly house," essentially an accusation that he allowed prostitution at King Ying Low, after being arrested along with six women.
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The only authority was a magistrate, who could send them to the reformatory for up to three years (a much harsher sentence than the 60 days in a workhouse handed down for an actual prostitution conviction.) Hartman describes how Elinora Harris, the future Billie Holiday, was arrested at the age of 14 at the "disorderly house" where she lived.
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More specific legislation dates from the early twentieth century, such as the Criminal Code Act 1924 (Crimes against Morality), and the Police Offences Act 1935.. Efforts to reform legislation that was clearly ineffective began in the 1990s. Prior to the 2005 Act, soliciting by a prostitute, living on the earnings of a prostitute, keeping a disorderly house and letting a house to a tenant to use as a disorderly house were criminal offences. Sole workers and escort work, which was the main form of prostitution in the stat, were legal in Tasmania. Reform was suggested by a government committee in 1999.
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Squires and Wells were committed, the former for removing Canning's stays and the latter for "keeping a disorderly House". George Squires and Virtue Hall, who both denied any involvement in the kidnapping, were set free; Canning and her supporters were allowed home.
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On either side of the street are signs for The Bagnio and The New Bagnio. Ostensibly a Turkish bath, bagnio had come to mean a disorderly house. The 6th Earl of Salisbury scandalised society by driving and upsetting a stagecoach.Page:The house of Cecil.
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But > there's one thing I object to. I object to you writing the charge against me > for maintaining a disorderly house. I want to have you know that I have the > most quiet, respectable, ladylike whores south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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In 1749, a court decision made by Fielding – in his role as magistrate – provoked rumours that he was being paid to defend brothels. Three years later, a letter written by "Humphry Meanwell" voiced objection to the 1752 Disorderly House Act (25 Geo. II, c. 36),Bertelsen 2000 p.
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The vagrancy law covered loitering, "rambling without a job" and "keeping a disorderly house". City jails filled up; wages dropped below pre-war rates.Forehand, "Striking Resemblance" (1996), pp. 112–113. The Freedmen's Bureau in Kentucky was especially weak and could not mount a significant response.Forehand, "Striking Resemblance" (1996), pp. 105–106.
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Both Phebe Bowen and the widow Ingraham were arrested in 1785 "for keeping a disorderly house", and Betsy and her sister were again thrown in the workhouse.Oppenheimer, p. 9-10 From there she was indentured to a sea captain and his family. Eliza's father died in 1786, when she was eleven.
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In late 1730, Sir John Gonson, a Justice of the Peace and fervent supporter of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, spurred on by the furore surrounding the Charteris rape case, began conducting raids on brothels all over London. By early 1731 he had arrived at St James, where some residents of Park Place reported "a Notorious Disorderly House in that Neighbourhood". In truth, Needham's house was hardly unknown, having served the upper echelons of society for years, but she was arrested by Gonson and committed to the Gatehouse by Justice Railton. On 29 April 1731, Needham was convicted of keeping a disorderly house, fined one shilling, and sentenced to stand twice in the pillory, and "to find sureties for her good behaviour for 3 years".
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The Five Bells is the only public house in Colne Engaine. The building is over 500 years old and a record of landlords since 1579 is displayed in the bar area. In 1689 the landlord was recorded as running a 'disorderly house'.Q/SR 461/64, 477/3-4 Another public house, the Three Cups was recorded in 1766.
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A part of section 198(1)(d) was challenged in 1991, namely that a previous conviction of keeping a disorderly house amounts to proof of the nature of the premises in subsequent proceedings. This was held to contravene sections 11(d) and 7 of the Charter (R. v. Janoff (1991), 68 C.C.C. (3d) 454 (Que. C.A.)), and became inoperative.
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Unruh's nickname "Big Daddy" apparently derives from a character in the Tennessee Williams play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Former Senate President pro Tempore Jim Mills in his book A Disorderly House insists it was given to Unruh by then-Assemblyman Don Allen. Unruh was a Protestant and belonged to the American Legion. He married twice, and had five children.
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Adkins increasingly showed drunken behaviour which landed her in court frequently. However she was adept at playing the system and sometimes manipulated her court appearances to be transferred to the Court of King's Bench. The prosecution did not pursue the charges due to the much greater expense of King's Bench hearings. After refusing to pay a £200 fine for keeping a disorderly house, King was imprisoned.
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King and her clientele spoke in a slang called "flash talk" to try and confuse any eavesdroppers to the conversations. Tom and Moll King were arrested in 1737 for keeping a disorderly house and fined. The Kings bought a parcel of land at Haverstock Hill and built a 'genteel villa' and three substantial houses. The villa became known as 'Molly King's Folly, and was occupied by King's protege Nancy Dawson.
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No charges were filed. Magee admits "no one was willing to sell it to them, but everyone was willing to give it to them for free." Lagunitas was found in violation of Section 24200 of California's Business and Professions Code, better known as its "disorderly house" law. Lagunitas was eventually served a twenty-day suspension of operations and the ordeal was commemorated with a beer named Undercover Investigation Shut-down Ale.
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M. Robinson (2009) pp. 96–97 Within a week, Gillott had resigned and soon after returned to England, and Hodgson had lost a significant ally. In April 1907, after appearing in court charged under new laws with "owing and operating a disorderly house", the ailing Caroline Hodgson closed her brothels in Lonsdale Street. With failing eyesight, diabetes and chronic pancreatitis, she continued to live at her Lonsdale Street property until her death in July 1908.
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It soon came under police surveillance and was raided in August. Neave, Reynolds, and many others were arrested. Neave and Reynolds were charged with running a disorderly house. At the time of the preliminary hearing on 28 August, Neave was described as a phrenologist, aged 48, and living at Robert Street, London NW. Following a trial that concluded on 26 October 1934, Neave was convicted and sentenced to 20 months' hard labour.
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Clevenger would later figure in dealings with the Dillinger gang of bank robbers. On September 18, 1931, Elliott was one of eight people taken into custody during a police raid of 600 1/2 Washington Street, where she was listed as an old offender.Unlucky 13 Is Arrested Here Over Weekend article, Kokomo Tribune, Kokomo, Indiana, September 21, 1931, page 3. She was charged with operating a disorderly house and pleaded guilty when brought before Judge Shenk.
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Advertising for the Caravan Club, 1934 The alleyway down which the club may have been. The Caravan Club was a gay and lesbian-friendly club in the basement of 81 Endell Street, London, that was the subject of a sensational court case in 1934. Following a police raid, the club's owners were accused of "exhibiting to the view of any person willing to pay for admission lewd and scandalous performances".The Caravan Club, 81, Endell St, W.C. 1: disorderly house, male prostitutes.
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In 1948, the San Francisco Police Department and the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, in response to the Black Cat's increasing homosexual clientele, began a campaign of harassment against the bar and its patrons. Bar owner Stoumen was charged with such crimes as "keeping a disorderly house" and the State Board of Equalization suspended the bar's liquor license indefinitely. In response and on principle, Stoumen, who was heterosexual, took the state to court. In 1951, the California Supreme Court, in Stoumen v.
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This peculiar homosexual meeting place, however, became well known to the public during the 1720s through the trial of its keeper, Margaret Clap, indicted for keeping a disorderly house and for encouraging her customers to commit sodomy; and, particularly, through the account given by an agent provocateur, Samuel Stevens. > On Sunday Night the 14th of November. I went to the Prisoners House in > Field-Lane, Holbourn. I found near Men Fifty there, making Love to one > another as they call'd it.
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A party was raided by the police in 1982 and the Kasirs were charged with running a disorderly house. The identities of the men who attended the party are not known and have been the subject of much speculation in subsequent years. By 2012, The Independent described the house as a "conspiracy theorist's dream". Carole Kasir died in 1990 at the age of 47; an inquest found that the cause of Kasir's death was suicide due to an overdose of insulin.
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A subsequent Royal Commission into the NSW liquor trade heard evidence that in the early 1950s The Roosevelt Club was clearing over £1000 per week in alcohol sales, of which only £100 was being banked as liquor takings. In 1947, Saffron, in partnership with Hilton Granville Kincaid and Mendel Brunen, took over the ownership of the Roosevelt. In January 1953, the club was closed after being declared a "disorderly house" by the NSW Police Commissioner. After Saffron sold the Roosevelt, it was able to be re-opened.
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The protagonist "M. Hackabout" (see Plate 1, Plate 3, and the coffin-lid in Plate 6, which reads: "M. Hackabout Died Sept 2d 1731 Aged 23") is either named after the heroine of Moll Flanders and Kate Hackabout or ironically after the Blessed Virgin Mary. Kate was a notorious prostitute and the sister of highwayman Francis Hackabout: he was hanged on 17 April 1730; she was convicted of keeping a disorderly house in August the same year, having been arrested by Westminster magistrate Sir John Gonson.
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One of the girls, Margaret Ware, was immediately held for trial while Allen himself was bound over $300 (or $500) bail for appearance in General Sessions. Appearing before Judge Joseph Dowling, Allen claimed that his arrest had been caused by Oliver Dyer and that the charges were a "put up job". The arresting officer, Captain Thomas Woolsey Thorne, accused Allen of running a "disorderly house". Allen denied this charge and insisted that is establishment had been in use for the past several days for religious meetings.
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Kerrigan developed extensive political connections as a longtime political organizer and "fixer" for Tammany Hall and was at one time the chairman of the Tammany Hall General Committee. In 1878, Kerrigan opened a saloon in the Twenty-Ninth District known as the Strand. This establishment became very popular in the area however, the following year, he was arrested by Captain Alexander "Clubber" Williams and charged with keeping a "disorderly house". His political connections secured his release and, in October 1879, he became one of the owners of the Star and Garter with William C. Rogers.
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The panegyrists, for example, do not trouble themselves about the emperor's religion, but addressed him as pagans would a pagan and draw their literary embellishments from mythology. Theodosius himself did not dare to exclude pagan authors from the school. A professor like Ausonius pursued the same methods as his pagan predecessors. Magnus Felix Ennodius, deacon of Milan under Theodoric and later Bishop of Pavia, inveighed against the impious person who carried a statue of Minerva to a disorderly house, and himself under pretext of an "epithalamium" wrote light and trivial verses.
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His offense was that with the assistance of the United States Attorney he closed down the houses of prostitution in Shanghai known as "The American Houses." "Seventeen of them [American prostitutes] departed that evening on one steamship, and a dozen on another craft. In two weeks half a hundred women had voluntarily enrolled themselves as former residents of Shanghai...It was an exodus, a hegira...If there is an American girl in any disorderly house, Wilfley and his district attorney do not know of it." Robert H. Murray, The Most Hated American in China, The Cosmopolitan, page 504 (1908).
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Some thought they could extort money from her. In 1890 she appeared in court in connection with a case in which it was alleged that she had been threatened with prosecution if she did not pay a member of the Fehr family a bribe. She did not pay and was prosecuted for running a disorderly house and for selling alcohol without a licence, which charges she settled by paying $203. Shearer stated that she did not instigate the case and it originated in a separate prosecution by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of John L. Fehr for extortion.
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Flambeau noted that, by 1922, "in imitation of the Krazy Kat, other bohemian restaurants sprang up in Washington to supply the demand" such as the Silver Sea Horse and Carcassonne in Georgetown. Over time, The Kat became one of the most vogue locations for Washington's intelligentsia and aesthetes to congregrate. During its tumultuous half-decade existence, The Kat was declared to be a "disorderly house" by municipal authorities and was raided by the metropolitan police on several occasions during the Prohibition period. One particular raid in February 1919 reportedly interrupted a violent brawl inside the club, during which a shot was fired.
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The Hotel Irving was located on the corner of Fourteenth Street and Irving Place, across the street from the New York Academy of Music and nearby Tammany Hall and Tony Pastor's place. Complaints were made about the noise and violence but police did not take action until an exposé by the New York Herald prompted city officials to take action. The hotel's liquor license was revoked in June but McGlory continued to sell alcohol even after his bartender, Edward Kelly, was arrested. District Attorney De Lancey Nicoll ordered McGlory's arrest and, in December 1891, he stood trial at the Court of General Sessions for running a disorderly house.
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In 1897, when his client, a landlady named Miller at another brothel at 201 N 9th Street was arrested for the robbery of a group of three travelers, Walker filed a complaint against the travelers for contributing to the support of a disorderly house, who were then themselves arrested although they were witnesses in the case against the landlady - much to the humor of the court which heard the case and accusation."Prosecutes Witnesses", Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska). November 22, 1897. Page: 2 In the mid-1890s, two cases against black men in Omaha received great attention: the murder of Maude Rubel and the Rock Island train crash near Lincoln.
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Although never proven, she may have operated a white slave house along the river near Kew, from which women were abducted and smuggled to foreign countries (see Sexual slavery and Human trafficking). In 1884, the Alfred Dyer's London Committee obtained evidence of a high class Chelsea brothel operated by Jeffries. An investigation by a former police inspector, who had resigned from the Metropolitan Police when senior officials refused to prosecute her, had been amassing evidence against Jeffries during the year until the London Commission began a private prosecution in March 1885. Although unable to charge Jeffries with any serious offence apart from keeping a disorderly house, the Commission expected much publicity from the case when presenting their evidence.
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In January 1905, Lisette Ducros was the subject of an attempted blackmail by Frederick Paxton, who threatened to expose her relationship with "a Mr.... in the War Office", with whom she had a child, and accused her of "keeping a disorderly house" at her lodgings in Clarendon Street, Pimlico. At his trial at the Central Criminal Court on 8 February, Paxton was found guilty of demanding money with menaces, and sentenced to 18 months hard labour. Ruck's wife, Mary, died on 13 October 1914, but earlier that year, Lisette had married student-teacher Frank Hoare (1894–1980), who would later become a film and TV producer. Richard Ruck adopted the three children shortly after the death of his wife.
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In October 1828, Edgar's work was interrupted when he began a three-month stint in an iron gang for being "drunk & in a disorderly house at a late hour of night". Receiving his ticket of leave in 1843, Edgar was conditionally pardoned in 1844, and from then on he seems to have focused on painting portrait miniatures, many of his subjects being emancipists (ex-convicts) and their children. While he is known to have established a studio in Argyle Street, in The Rocks, little else has been confirmed about the final decade of Edgar's life. He ended up destitute and a resident of the Sydney Benevolent Asylum, where he died on 21 June 1854.
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Bedard v Dawson, [1923] S.C.R. 681 is a leading constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court held that the provinces could legislate in matters related to the prevention of crime even though the federal government had exclusive power over criminal law. The law was passed by the Quebec legislature and allowed for private citizens to apply to the Court to close down a premises if it was being used as a "disorderly house". The Court upheld a provincial Act on the grounds that the law was in relation to property and civil rights and not criminal matters as was the case for an equivalent provision in the criminal code regarding "disorderly houses".
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Gay saunas, as they are more commonly known in Australia and New Zealand, were present in most large cities in those countries by the late 1980s. As homosexuality was legalised in New Zealand and most Australian states during the 1970s and 1980s, there was no criminal conduct occurring on the premises of such "sex on site venues". In Britain gay saunas were routinely raided by police up until the end of the 1980s; for example, raids in May 1988 on Brownies in Streatham resulted in the establishment's owner getting a six-month jail sentence and a £5,000 fine, 'The draconian sentence (six months jail and a £5,000 fine) on the owner and manager of Brownies sauna for keeping a disorderly house is a case in point'.
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Speaking of this ritual in the film Word is Out, gay journalist George Mendenhall said: > It sounds silly, but if you lived at that time and had the oppression coming > down from the police department and from society, there was nowhere to turn > ... and to be able to put your arms around other gay men and to be able to > stand up and sing 'God Save Us Nelly Queens' ... we were really not saying > 'God Save Us Nelly Queens.' We were saying 'We have our rights, too.' Sarria fought against police harassment, both of gays and of gay bars. Raids on gay bars were routine, with everyone inside the raided bar taken into custody and charged with such crimes as being "inmates in a disorderly house".
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The seedy reputation of the club led to regular clashes with the authorities about show content. In 1961, his club was called "filthy, disgusting and beastly" by the chairman of the London Sessions when Raymond was fined £5,000 (then about $12,500) following a magistrate's decision that permitting members to ring the Ding Dong Girl's bells constituted running a disorderly house. There was also the issue about an onstage snake charmer who it was ruled should not have swallowed the snake in public. Raymond first moved into publishing in 1964 when he launched the men's magazine King, but it ceased publication after two issues. In 1971, he took over the adult title Men Only; his other magazines eventually included Razzle and Mayfair.
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Stephenson continued to set a glass of whiskey on her table for a month after her death and would not permit anyone to sit there until after 2:00 am. The resort was closed, along with many others, by then newly elected reform Mayor Abram S. Hewitt who campaigned against the city's vice and red light districts. There is some discrepancy over the date of The Black and Tans closure. Former NYPD police chief George W. Walling claimed in his memoirs Recollections of a New York Chief of Police (1887) that it was closed in 1887, however an article by The New York Times, which reported the club's close as a "disorderly house" in July 1885, attributed the ownership to a Patrick Mee.
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She was involved in a number of disturbances reported around her Rose Street address in Edinburgh. William Creech, a bookseller, publisher and local magistrate, then assisted her neighbours in bringing these complaints to the courts. The complaint was "since Whitsunday last, she and a Miss Sally Sanderson, who were persons of bad character, had kept a very irregular and disorderly house, into which they admit and entertain licentious and profligate persons of both sexes to the great annoyance of their neighbours and breach of the public peace...". These disturbances lead to her being brought before the magistrates where she was sentenced to banishment from the city with the charge of being 'drummed through the streets' and 'confinement in the house of corrections for 6 months' if she returned to Edinburgh.
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Police interest in Lindsay's activities intensified towards the end of the seventies: his premises were raided several times and attempts were made to close Lindsay's cinemas on charges of "running a disorderly house". Undercover police officers had become members of Lindsay's cinema to gain evidence of this, in the hope of catching audience members masturbating. Lindsay alleges that an insider at Scotland Yard informed him that the police had been given orders to close his business down by all means necessary. In the early eighties, Lindsay had also begun selling compilations of his films on video, taking advantage of the then unregulated state of the British video industry, and selling them at £45 per tape through mail order (the tapes generally contained two or three films and rather uniquely, professionally made trailers for other Lindsay titles).
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During the period that DNA Lounge was closed, Zawinski spearheaded a successful grassroots effort to maintain its late-night permits, facing opposition from several neighbors and the SFPD, but was unable to procure an all-ages license. In September 2008, after two and a half years of legal battles, the club's operating permits were successfully modified to allow patrons of all ages, instead of only those 21 years of age or older. The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) launched an investigation against the club in 2009, resulting in an accusation of "running a disorderly house injurious to the public welfare and morals", and asking for permanent revocation of the club's liquor license, which would result in the club closing permanently. The accusations pertain to lewd behavior at certain gay and lesbian events which no longer take place at the club.
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