Portage Lake Cottagers

INVOKE THE LAW TO PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES

One Young Fellow Bound Over for Exposure and Six other Complaints May be Made

Frederick Dupper, a young man just about of age, from Ann Arbor, was bound over by Justice Gibson Wednesday for trial in the circuit court on the charge of indecent exposure at Portage lake. The testimony was to the effect that Dupper went in swimming Sunday, August 16, and came up to the shore in the presence of ladies, without having any wearing apparel on his person.

The offense charged is a circuit court offense, the maximum penalty of which is a year's imprisonment or $500 fine. The case is an attempt on the part of the cottage owners at Portage lake to protect their families. It is though that complain will be entered against six other young fellows from Ann Arbor who were at the Clover Leaf cottage, for vile and indecent language in the presence of ladies. An offer to purchase this cottage has been made on the part of the other cottage owners, but they claim an exorbitant price has been put on it and so the strong arm of the law has been invoked to compel the people who rent this cottage to observe the ordinary decencies.