An Open Secret by Chris Enss
Author:Chris Enss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2023-02-11T00:00:00+00:00
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MADAM BELLE HASKELL AND THE DEMISE OF MAGGIE BROADWATER
FROM THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS A SECTION OF DEADWOOD INTO which respectable citizens would seldom venture, and if they did, it was only under cover of darkness. That area of town was known as the âBad Lands.â Chinese residents were relegated to that section of Deadwood Gulch, as well as most dance halls, saloons, and brothels. The Bad Lands attracted desperate and ruthless men and women convinced their criminal acts would go unpunished; that is at least until law and order could be firmly established in the unmanaged town. Soiled doves were often at the heart of the illegal activities. Some were thieves who stole from other prostitutes who worked with them at various houses of ill repute, some were perpetrators or victims of assault, and others were victims of murder or murderers themselves. The professional women who ran profitable businesses in the Bad Lands were subject to arrest and violence. Only the most brazen attempted to survive and some of them failed in trying.
Belle Haskell had managed her own house, known as the 400, for more than a decade when one of the women in her employ was brutally killed by another prostitute working at the bordello. The well-known madam had opened the bordello in 1880 and, over the years, had been taken into custody for selling alcohol without a license, been beaten by inebriated customers, had her home vandalized and her possessions stolen.1
The news that Belleâs employee, Austie Trevyr, had murdered Maggie McDermott came as a shock to her and the other women at the house. The murder took place at the popular Badlandâs tavern the Mascotte
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