People ex rel. Craige v. Fox

This is a writ of habeas corpus to review the commitment by a city magistrate of one Elizabeth Craige, charged with being a .vagrant, by reason of having committed prostitution in a tenement house, in this city, to the workhouse on Blackwell’s Island for six months, “ unless sooner discharged by due course of law.”

It is well settled that a woman violates the Tenement House Act (Laws of 1901, chap. 334, § 141), and shall be deemed a vagrant, if she commits prostitution in her apartment or room in a tenement house, in the city of Hew York; and that where a magistrate of the city has found the…