"You'd be surprised at the stuff that goes on in this town. Almost right out in the open. I never introduced anyone I didn't know or any young boys. The guys I introduced liked the money and kept coming back. They were all just wild kids and laughed about it. One of the guys I met in this deal told me never to get too close with the homos or I would start liking men better than women. He told me that's what happened to him. He said he was married and had a family before he started.

"I lost my wife's affection because of this. I used to have a steady job but could only make $40-$50 a week. What kind of money was that? I just want to get the whole thing off my chest now... and maybe through my coming out with this, people of this city will know what's going on. This homosexual business has increased here definitely during the time I was a part of it. Left alone, it will become real widespread."

Immediately following Davies' disclosures, Burlington's Mayor Bing, Police Chief Donald Russell, and States Atty. John Boylan, Jr. embarked on a full-scale investigation of the alleged homosexual activities. Chief Russell said he thought Davies "was exaggerating." He added, however, "I'm not saying there are no homosexuals in Burlington...You find them in every

city."

A week of repeated and continued questioning of Davies (including his being given two lie detector tests-the results of which have never been disclosed) plus detailed inquiry and observation by Burlington's detective bureau which lasted most of the month of August in checking out Davies' allegations, proved futile in turning up any evidence of an organized promotion of homosexuality.

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No charges were filed against Davies who thereafter left town for his native Detroit on a 'one-wayticket' ostensibly to recover from his ice pick wound at the home of his parents. The local police began to lose interest, and the Burlington Free Press which had been keeping the story going and may have paid Davies in the first place, found itself starved for information to report. But the paper kept doggedly at repeating the informer's original story.

Now Burlington, Vermont, is not a large city (local population: 37,000). It is a college town and the educational and intellectual center of Vermont plus its cultural center for the arts. The tone of the place, as noted earlier, is conservative. The primary newspaper is quite conservative. And it is not unreasonable to imagine that the bluntness of wording of the newspaper articles probbably was more shocking to the residents than the subject matter. A city like this is bound to have a gay set. It might even be as large as Davies described. But it would know absolutely nothing about the inside' story of any of the charges made by Davies and appearing in the papers. In fact, the homosexual population would understandably remain unmolested by the police during such a purge. Why? Because Davies would not know any homosexuals. He wouldn't recognize one if it bit him, so to speak. The real gay community of Burlington would continue to go right on peacefully living-the individuals busy and useful-well concealed. Young punk Davies, to be sure, will know hoodlums, whores, and hustlers by the hundreds, some coincidentally gay, some not so gay. But like Davies himself, the chief characteristic of these pug-uglies is their eager willingness to turn their

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