Goods Shipped.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 5

Goods Shipped.

THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC V ' OPERATIONS OF A GANG. [By Electric Telegraph—Copywght] Times and Sydney Sun Services. Xew York, July 25. A pretty young widow was found terribly beaten and almost insane in a deserted house. Documents seized revealed the operations of a gang of "white slavers," with 200 women under their direction at resorts established at leading towns in the Eastern States. Correspondence there described the stations whereto women could be sent in squads as in the case of performers in a vaudeville circuit. A large force of procurers was engaged in trapping women into the system, the agents receiving ten dollars for each recruit.

The informant declares that policff interference was not feared, because 5000 dollars monthly was paid for police protection. The leader of the gang is an Italian, who is head of the "artichoke trust," which intimidates pedlars and fruit dealers who will not buv from it.

Letters disclose that women were regarded like sacks of potatoes, managers complaining that they had nob received "goods shipped."