Miscellany (cont’d)
An Evil Strategy to Cajole a Police Officer
Every one of the readers would imagine that prostitutes use every possible strategy to secure their own prostitution businesses, but among many strategies there is a particularly eye-and-ear-opening one; some prostitutes in some situations cajole police officers into being their lovers.
However, there are not many examples of this. This phenomenon is not seen in every cave district but only in few places. But what I want to draw your attention to is the fact that most of those examples are concentrated in Cranbrook.
Toku Terada from Kishū, whom I mentioned earlier, had a lover, who was a beat officer. She did not pay any fines herself while she gave him names of those whom she did not like. As a result, those prostitutes ended up paying inconsistent amounts of fines, ranging from 30 dollars to 15 dollars or 10 dollars a month.
In the Number Three cave of that time, that is, Yokohama House, Oshige whom you know was running the cave with white prostitutes. Using their cases, Oshige made a claim to the police that their fines varied. Otoku’s lover ended up being expelled and Otoku lost her favor, and started to harbour a bone-deep grudge against Oshige and opposed Matsumoto at every occasion.
Later, Toku Terada decided to pass over her cave to a woman called Osumi from Fukui Prefecture, but with one condition. She told Osumi, “You must always oppose Oshige, otherwise I would not give my house to you.” Osumi was conflicted and said that she doesn’t have such power to oppose Matsumoto. “That’s not a concern. Cajole an officer and get him on your side,” Otoku gave her a lecture of different kinds, and Osumi put all her effort into performing her skills and finally held a patrol officer captive.
I do not hear this kind of example from other cities. They are only in Cranbrook. This proves that the city plays a leading role in producing cave-management-related phenomena of different kinds.