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Miss Emeline Poshil, 51, left, and Miss Bernice Sheppard, 25, at the State's Atty's Office after being arrested for owning and operating a bookie for women on October 19, 1938. According to the Chicago Daily Tribune, Miss Sheppard was looking after the place, located at 5057 Lake Park Avenue, for her mother Mae, who was out watching a horse that she owned at the track. The Sheppard mother and daughter team, along with Poshil who was a clerk, had run the bookie for women for eight or ten years. “The ladies were nibbling jelly rolls and sipping soft drinks and coffee”, according to the newspaper, when State's Attorney axmen came busting into the handbook for discriminating women. Detective Daniel Moriarty and his fellow axmen were ill at ease arresting the women with Moriarty later saying “I was a little embarrassed”. The headline read “Axmen Toast Ladies With A Bang Up Party; Axmen Wreck Handbook Run By Women”. (Photo by Chicago Tribune Historical Photo)
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