The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-23
MODERN MAIDENS.
a COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION OF
THE CRIMES.
Trade ParceIs-ExpOrt and Import
Ledger AccOunTs-POIice Pay
Sisters of Charity-In


Ledger AccOunGs-POIice Pay
Sisters of Charity-In
the Commons.
The title of the Pal Mall Gazette's art
icles is Sc Maiden Tribute in Modern Baby
lon.' The paper says: 'The resentment
which reform might appease may hereafter
prove the virus of a social revolution. In
deed, it may be the one explosive strong
enough to wreck the throne" The Arch
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of
London have given their most hearty sup
port to the Commission and been informed
in advance of the facts.
The Grimes Classified.
The Grim es are classified as follows: First,
the sale, purchase and violation of children;
second, the procuration of virgins; third,
the entrapping and ruin of women; fourth,
an international slave trade in girls; fifth,
atrocities, brutalities and unnatural crimes.
Arrangements for procuring, violating and
then disposing of the ruined victims of Lon
don lust made with incredible efficiency
and simplicity. ''Some are obtained by
subterfuge, and some are bred. At II or
13 years of age they bring ego to 940. In
the east end you can find as many as you
want. Sometimes the supply exceeds the
demand' One man said that he once
brought a girl from the country to town,
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sold her to young gentleman for els. He
once sold twelve-year-old girl to clergy
man, who visited the house professedly to
distribute tracts.
Trade Parcels.
The narrative throughout speaks of the
victims as "parcels." For instance, "I
have consigned three parcels to So and So"
| showing the business to be of purely COM
mercial character. One woman said: s'Nurse
! girls, shop girls, sometimes governesses,
form our chief supply. We rise often at
o'clock in the morning and scour Hyde
| Park and Regents Park. watch nursemaids
and finally secure a victim.n One woman
artfully advanced money for months to
dying charwoman, in order to secure her
daughter when the proper time came. The
victim was little girl.
Sisters OF Charity.
Frequently women, disguised as Sisters
OF Charity, meet trains conveying Irish
girls from Liverpool, saying that the Lady
Superior is to meet the poor Catholic girls
and take them to good lodgings until they
find situations. They are forthwith taken
to brothels. The Sister of Charity disap-
pears and the Irish g1rl is entrapped.
Pay of the Police.
The police generally receive regular pay.
ments from abandoned women, who fully |
understand that unless they regularly bride |
policemen they must quit London, or other |
wise be arrested and annoyed by trumped- !
up charges. The strongest Freemasonry |
among policemen exists in this direction. |
At one famous house in the East end the /
police allowance is $500 yearly, besides /
free quarters when wanted. One lady de-
voted to rescue work says that whenever
she wished to save a girl she was compelled
to take the greatest care not to allow her |
intention to reach the ears of the police
rho 70 H.
severe as regards men soliciting women as
for women soliciting men.
Export and Import
The last Gazette deals chiefly with the in.
EQUITIES of the system of exporting English
girls to the Continent and importing foreign
girls to England under the pretense of bro
viding them with respectable employment.
1t adduces many instances. 1t gives warn
ing that several well-known DULLES have |
been seen watching village homes, where
they suspect little children, rescued from
vice, are in the house.
Ledger Accounts.
Nine. Jefferies' books show that she was
the intermediary as well for many women
of good and even the highest social posi-
ton. The exposure furnishes O shocking
commentary upon the condition of morals
In the better circles p" of the metropolis.
regular credit accounts with some of her
male patrons, the amounts charged in some
instances reaching $1,000. Some OF the
entries show that she would temporarily 7
rent one of her houses to such a patron, :
with furniture, servants and skilled cook
an elegant and complete encourage i'll fact.
No money was paid by any patron directly
She would render her account to him Al A
regular intervals and he would send the =
amount due by messenger =
A Commission of IpquIry I
The windows and doorways of the Ga. C
'ette'S publication Office are barricaded, and n
he police are in control of the surrounding 81
nobs. The Gazette receives every day
numbers of cablegrams from the United
States, asking about the progress of its ex-
0osures. Cardinal Manning has accepted
he proposition made by the proprietors OF 81
he Gazette to submit the complete proof of b
Ill its revelations, including every name h
nd detail, to party of responsible men. W
o include the Cardinal and Hon. John bi
Morley, the examiners to have the privilege A
II reporting to the public as they may deem a
'est. T.
In the Commons. a
In the Commons Grey Liberal member al
or South Northumberland, asked Cross.
Tome Secretary, whether he could assure
he House that the Government had given
riders to the police to do their utmost to
uppress the denominations in London re- II
called by the Pail Man Gazette. The
Tome Secretary replied that the police
Iould use every exertion to suppress The
LEGGED practices existing The Law. sup p,
lemented by criminal law amen iment Sc
Ill, would suffice TO bring to iustioe the ",
erpetrators of such denominations. m
to