'Kentucky Rosebud' Goes to Trenton

'KENTUCKY ROSEBUD' GOES TO TRENTON Convicted This Morning and Immediately Sentenced to from 1 to 3 Years STATE PRESENTS VERY STRONG CASE Walter Edgerton, colored, alias "Kentucky Rose Bud," was convicted this morning in the Criminal Court on a charge of keeping a disorderly house at 811 Locust street. He was immediately sentenced to from one to 3 years in State Prison by Judge Boyle. Several witnesses testified to having met white women in the house and of seeing unlawful practices going on in the establishment. The defendant denied all knowledge of anything unlawful going on in the house and declared that he had never seen anything such as the witnesses testified. He admitted that he was the tenant occupying the property, and also admitted that he was convicted of keeping a disorderly house in Philadelphia and having served a term of one year in prison. He denied that he kept a gambling establishment at Atlantic City. Edgerton said that he had been in jail since May and declared that since his incarceration he was unable to get in touch with the witnesses whom he desired to summon.