The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-01
SAVED FROM RUIN.

A New London Girls Terrible Experience in New
Haven EutlCed into BrOthel, and Rescued
by Her Brother.
A girl of seventeen, whose name is
withheld from publication for obvious
reasons, was enticed from her home in
this city on last Monday, and made an
inmate of a house of ill-fame in New
Haven. Her brother and father found
her in that city Wednesday and brought
her home. She says the woman with
whom she went to New Haven promised
to give her 81 week and board to wait
on the table in a boarding house there
Knowing that her family would object
to her leaving home, she went without
their knowledge or consent. On arriv-
ing at the woman's house, the character
of which she did not know, nor the rep.
utation of the woman, she was given
supper and afterward shown to bed.
room, and directed to dress herself in
ready-made garments Of a nicer quality
and more stylish pattern than those she
wore. Late in the evening she was sum-
moned into parlor where richly dressed
women and fashionable men were drink
ing wine and singing to piano accom-.
paniment of one of their number, Wine
was offered her, but she declined it. Sus.
peCting the character of the house after
being in the room short time, she began
to be alarmed, and when wine WAS again
offered her she declined, pleading that
it would make her sick. The woman
upon whose solicitation she had left
home, then in polite manner invited
her into another room. When they got
in, the woman dropped her mild manner
and angrily asked the girl "What she
meant by refusing wine," and gave her
to undeis and that if she would drink,
and induce the young men to drink, she
would be given dollar for every bottle
ordered by her male companions. This
the girl positively refused to do, and the
woman in her ang struck her in the
mouth with her hand, cutting her lip so
that the blood flowed. She then rough
ly ordered her to go to her room and tn
bed. The girl, by this time frightened
almost out of her senses, pleaded with
the woman to let her leave the house,
when the latter seized her by the arm,
half dragged her up stairs, locked her
into her room and departed taking the
key. Fully realizing the purpose of her
captor, she moved, by main strength, the
heavy black walnut bedstead against the
door OF the room, so that it could not be
opened from the outside, and sat awake
all night. When morning came the wo.
man came 10 her room, pretending that
the affair of the previous night was all q
joke, and invited her down staira. The
girl was persuaded after a time, and
breakfasted with the procuress. During
the day the manner of the latter toward
the girl was kindly and polite, and the
fears of the captive were somewhat al
layed. In the evening they visited the
theater together. almost the first per-
son the girl met on the street, as she was
passing out of the theatre, was her cousin,
young man employed by the Windsor
Arms company; and with joyful cry
she sprang away from the woman and
catching him by the arm, besought his
protection. He instinctly surmised the
reason for his Cousins companionship
with the woman, and before the girl be-
gan to tell her story, he ordered the wo'
man of. There was a'scene of mo-
ment's duration, which ended in the