Men's Names Shield in Vice Raids, Women's Names Published

Kingston, New York, 1916

MEN SHIELDED IN CITY VICE RAIDS

Women Protest at Action of Police — Publication of One Woman's Name Led Daughter to Leave City for Shame of Exposure

Poughkeepsie women are making a spirited protest because the police in making raids on certain alleged disorderly hotels in that city gave out the names of the women taken but withheld the names of 59 "gentlemen" who were permitted to go. Because of the publication of the name of one of the women in the affair, her daughter who is a young woman of refinement and a member of the Y. W. C. A., was so humiliated that she has disappeared and all efforts to locate her have failed.

Miss Mary Hinkley, president of the Women's League for Civic Education, who led the discussion, pointed out as ridiculous the excuse she said was offered by the district attorney shielding the men, "that many of the latter were respectable and in danger of losing their positions." When some one brought up the argument that the families of the men must be protected, it was asked, "What of the families of the women; what of the case that has just come to light?"

"We are disgusted at this periodic revelation," Miss Mary Hinkley said, "We must clean up the dirt once for all and be thoroughly assured that after one case has been brought to light, paraded to the public gaze and rectified, that another won't be found again and the endless tragedy repeated over and over."

—The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, June 29, 1916, page 2.