People v. Marx

Plaintiffs in error were found guilty in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of rape and each sentenced to a-term of five years in the penitentiary.- This writ of error has been sued out to review the record of the criminal court.

Rosette Arnold, also known as Virginia LaVerne, was a young woman about twenty-three years of age, who resided at the Calvert Hotel, at Wabash avenue and Eighteenth street, in Chicago. She made her living partially by singing. On the evening of May 3, 1919, she was substituting for another singer in a cabaret conducted by one Tancl, at Ashland and Blue…