Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-23

! The city has been thrown into terrible
CONFUSION by the discovery Of class Of
| houses IN when are prosecuted the awiu!
| traihc of manufacturing prostitutes ont of
/ children; and although this trade has been
going on for several years, chiefly on West
Madison and South State streets, a.
regularly as the selling of railroad stocks,
and far more prOftahly than the shipping
OF corn, the houses and the traffic were dis
covered to the public gaze by a mere acci-
dent. Two young girls, sisters, whose
father moves in an upper plane of society,
were decOyed 10 place kept by John Nc
Laughlin, a fancy man, and diamond stud
puglIlst The oldest of these children was
eleven years. They were induced to visit
the gaudy den by promises of gifts, wine,
etc, and were taken into one of the petite
saloons OF sin on an upper floor, where
professional rOue attempted To violate
the elder. She resisted with the Spar
tan heroism of woman : natural virtue.
and the cries of both saved her.
Mclaughlin had the children put to bed,
where they covered like frightened sheep,
neither sleeping at all during the entire
night. Meanwhile the father crazed by
their absence, had the whole police force
yainly searching them ont That this worse
than hell was known 10 the officers j. proven
Immediately; but the devils in charge
denied all knowledge of the children
McLaughln's mistress. with some nobility
of sex still left in her, gave the officers
and the demented father the hint. and in
the morning the little girls were found
On Monday night last. the newspapers of
that morning having told the tale. great
crowd gathered about Mcl.aughlin's and a
rope was dangled from lamp post. The
man whose neck would fit properly with
in its moose, escaped from the rear Of his
palace, got abroad a suburban train and left
the city. lie decided that it would be safe TO
steal back on Wednesday night, and found
in the almost empty coach 4 young lady
coming here 10 join her father at the Sher-
man House. His companion, burly vii
lain, was bid to keep in the background
while Mclaughlin proceeded to ensnare the
solitary traveller. He rested his jeweled
hand on the arm of her seat and begged the
privilege Of riding at her side. A. there
were vacant seats in abundance, the request
was promptly refused. lie begged her par
don hoped that she considered it no Of
fence: he saw she was alone. and was going
TO city full of peril at night; would be
glad to assist her, but would now retire.
Won by his seeming franknesS, she told
him the truth, and accepted his offer
to take her to the Sherman House
in a carriage. But heaven was not blind
or deaf. The train boy had read of
McLaughlin's house and had seen the man.
lie suspected that this was he, and, having
overheard the conversation, resolved to save
the iend's intended victim. Before the
train was fairly in the depot, the brave lad
leaped from it, ran like hare until he
found the nearest policeman, and re-entered
the ear at one end as the hawk and the dove
were about TO depart from the other. At
the sight Of the baton and star, McLaugh
lin fed and was lost in the crowd. The
young lady, whose name do not mention
for obvious reasons, grew faint when she
learned of her narrow escape from worse
than death, and was accompanied by the
officer to her father. The latter Is not likely
to lose sight OF the train boy. And now We
shall have crusade at the procuring houses
-ChicGgo Cor. Troy Times.