The Midnight Raid on the Tenderloin

At 2 o'clock this morning, Chief Butterfield raided all the houses of prostitution on Jackson, Washington, and Main streets, and on the Grant street bridge, placing under arrest all the inmates, male and female, as well as the proprietors. The raid had been under consideration for several days. At 1 o'clock, Chief Butterfield organized his forces. The row of houses on the east side of Jackson street, between Seventh and Eighth, were first surrounded. It was 2 o'clock when the raid opened by the Chief hammering on the door of the house farthest east, known as Noel's. The woman refused to open the door, and when the officers battered it down, a man's voice was heard threatening to shoot. Chief Butterfield rushed to the window, but the man brought the sash down on his head and raised a water pitcher as if to brain him. Captain Jones leveled his pistol at the man, but was forced to jump back to dodge the pitcher. As the man was throwing the pitcher, Captain Jones shot him, the bullet taking effect in his left wrist. The Chief then jumped through the window, and the man retreated to a back room, where he inflicted an ugly wound over Captain Jones' left eye. The captain then knocked him down with a revolver. Thirty-two people were arrested in total.