People ex rel. Edwards v. Warden of the Workhouse

Each of the relators in the above entitled proceedings is brought into court upon writs of certiorari directed *640to the magistrate, and of habeas corpus directed to the warden upon a state of facts alike in both cases.

The return to the certiorari in each case shows that the relator was brought before the magistrate upon a sworn complaint of a police officer, charging her with a violation of title 3, section 141, of the Greater Hew York Charter in that she “ did knowingly reside in a house of prostitution in a tenement-house particularly described, and further charging her with being a vagrant.”

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