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Josie Arlington (1864 – February 14, 1914) was a brothel madam in the Storyville district of New Orleans, Louisiana. ==Early life== Arlington was born Mary Deubler in New Orleans to German parents.〔(Trivia on Prostitution Biography of Madam Josie Arlington ). Trivia Library (February 14, 1914). Retrieved May 4, 2012.〕 Though very attractive and shrewd, Arlington was known to be short-tempered and violent. She began working as a prostitute in 1881, supporting her family on her earnings,〔Rosen; 'Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America 1900 – 1918, The'; JHU Press; p. 89〕 and opened a brothel at 172 Customhouse Street prior to the murder of her brother Peter Deubler in November 1890. At that point, Miss Mary Deubler was also using the sir name of Mrs. Phillip Lobrano for professional purposes. She had been with Lobrano since the age of 16 when he had offered her protection. Mr. Lobrano and Peter Deubler had a drunken verbal altercation, and Peter had followed Lobrano from a bar to the Customstreet premises. While the witness accounts were disputed for years, Phillip Lobrano claims he shot Peter Deubler in the face in front of his sister Josie in self defense. Peter died December 9, 1890 ten days after being shot. Phillip Lobrano was acquitted after a second trial on March 31, 1892. In the meantime Josie had cut all business and romantic dealings with Lobrano, and had sought to become more respectable. Josie's decisions helped her businesswise. In the four or five years from her brother's death, she had shed her former reputation. She had taken a new paramour, John Thomas "Tom" Brady who was a clerk in the City Treasurers office. She and Brady had visited the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas and she witnessed first hand a luxurious lifestyle and resolved to emulate it back at her brothel. She changed the name to the "Chateau Lobrano d'Arlington" and began to hire foreign girls to increase the appeal to upscale customers. At this point she began making business deals with Tom Anderson who operated a nearby restaurant which he renamed the Arlington. Anderson caught wind of Alderman Story's ordinance to create a regulated prostitution district before most did, and he and Josie acquired choice properties on Basin Street near the entrance to the future Storyville area. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Josie Arlington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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