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<\/a><\/p>\nSylveria Street neighborhood on 1925 Sanborn Map<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marie Fourbon Davies dropped her husband\u2019s last name when they divorced in 1903.\u00a0 \u00a0She would have several marriages that all ended in divorce.\u00a0 Since she was from France and spoke with a heavy French-accent.\u00a0\u00a0 The use of \u201cMadame\u201d usually preceded her first name which led to some historians to think she ran a house of prostitution.\u00a0 All her arrests never included prostitution.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The City Trustees in Redlands passed a prohibition ordinance in 1896.\u00a0 Madame Fourbon flaunted the ordinance by establishing a \u201cblind pig.\u201d\u00a0 This term meant she sold alcoholic beverages on the sly covering the operation by running a restaurant.\u00a0 The Citrograph<\/em> first noted this operation July 25, 1903.\u00a0 Judge Gifford found Mrs. Alphonse Fourbon and Mrs. Albert Fourbon guilty and fined her $150.\u00a0 Madame Fourbon paid the fines while giving the press an assortment of names in the process.\u00a0 \u00a0Her fourteenth arrest took place in 1919.\u00a0 The substantial fine led Fourbon to sell six lots she owned in the Columbia subdivision north of Pearl Street.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Madame Fourbon was a \u201crespected\u201d business woman.\u00a0\u00a0 She ended up owning six homes on Third Street plus a thriving restaurant.\u00a0 Her fines did much to finance the City of Redlands government.\u00a0 In her later years she traveled through town in an electrified wheel-chair.\u00a0\u00a0 Her reputation became that of a folk-hero in the business district.\u00a0\u00a0 She never spent a single night in jail.\u00a0 Madame Anna Fourbon died at the age of 83 on July 17, 1935.\u00a0 She is buried in Hillside Memorial Cemetery with all the saints and sinners of Redlands.<\/p>\n Jure-Fourbon Family, 1916<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n