Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-18
Mr., Stead's Statement in Court Rela-
tive to the CaN Of Eliza
Armstrong.
Explanation OF His Attempt TO Expose
the Horrible Outrage Upon
Girlish Purity.
sad and Astonishing story. showing the
A,roclou. Chnraoter Of London's
WickednoS-.


admitted portion OF the statement,
which Mr.. Stead read
Jarrett consented most reluctantly, aud
under moral pressure Of the most inn
lperous kind So resume for once the old
role Of procuress, which she had often
played before Ia grim earnest, but was
confronted by a great difficulty. This
kind Of thing, she suid--and In this She
was perfectly right--could not be done In
a hurry An established procurcss has
always certain number of girls Ia
training Any one coming into the
business would End it difficult
to lay Der hands at once upon what
she wanted Jarrett had been out Of the
business for more than six months. She
was reluctant to 20 back among her old
friends. Some of them knew Of her change
of life, and if they saw her once more
looking out for girls they would attribute
her conversion tp hypocrlcy, and all nope
of doing them good ina the future would
disappear. She was also most reluctant
90 cTiminate her old companions. II Nas
I only when two or three attempts to effect
a sale 10 the east Of London had met with
nou-suCcrSs that she Informed me with
much regret that, ii the thing had 20 be
Z done against time, She would have to 20
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.. NuN" ""hNa'linhS, except where the
''ANls az" ''ileF> were Oh friends.
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WIS 'hal : NShtd 10 prove, II was as
NeI1'1 AN" uenitd That innocent children
NoMu pt procured lur Immoral purposes,
WIN 'n' Vousehi OF thrif mothers. Mr., f.
oleAV u'n referred TO certain assertions
'nu uehialN relating to what TRANSFERRED
Nlui Young 2lHs'l " was asserted and
uvn''G 'HAt young elrl would be adj
ln'sUV !" PREMISES Tor immoral purposes,
wv 'l't N',' Nouiu supply her customers
WIZ NIlAN without license, And,
'a7,4i ~ was asserted ana dcniod that
IRIS oi !" could be taken outot the coun-
tli p'Aota abroad m places where all
ta'u "l u'cul eoulu be lost anu whore all
yuorls oi the pollcc lallcu to ind them,
wanted TO seq all these questions at rest
"l'Ve LOT an peiore committing myself TO
any statement ON Tue snhlcet
MI' NAnshah ohloctedto what followed
ana MT stead resumed as follows
WANTED Ast-lRoN tNDts.
huI : wanted what Mr.. Lahouchere
called ''casi-lron facts, " which would en-
"''v me 70 Speah OF my own knowledge
~ w p"NllOSS. ~ lNe same time !
Wo',,vu 20 saNv w innocent medium OF
nom any
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