The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-02
Two MHUMAN VULTURES
Bring ioung Girls to This City for
Immoral Purposes.
RESCUED FROM THEIR DANGER
Taken In Charge By the Police sud
Sent Back TO Their Parents In
. Stroudsburs = Description
Of the Proeurers.

Ihat systematic traffic In young
girls Is carried on to supply the immoral
houses or this city has been known to
the police for some time, but owing to
the care which these fiends exercise to
cover their tracks and prevent de-
lection the principals In the. trans
actions have so far succeeded in evad-
ing arrest. NoW, however. a case has
come to light which, if the police do not
become lax, should result in the appre-
hension of at least two of these bar
terers in human souls.
About 10 o'clock Saturday night two
girls neither over II years of age were
picked up on Lackawanna avenue and
given shelter at the police station. To
the officer In charge they told that their
names We're Nellie Carroll and Phoebe
Newzie and that their homes are in
Stroudsburg. They said that they had
heard other girls telling how they went
to Scranton and got good places to
work and earned money to buy nice
clothes and the like and they had about
made up their minds to go to Scranton
and hunt for position when they fell
In with young man who agreed to
send them to Scranton and provide
them with positions as mattresses in d
boarding house. They knew their pa
rents would not consent to their leav-
ing home so they decided to run away
and after getting settled to write and
tell their folks where they were.
WERE SENT TO THIS CITY.
Saturday, according to the agreement
with the man who had volunteered to
help them carry out their design, they
met him at the Stroudsburg station
and were put aboard the train with the
information that friend OF his would
meet them upon the arrival Of the train
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they were to get work. Upon alighting
from the train they were accOsted by
a man who, after finding out that they
Were the girls sent from StrOudsburg,
informed them that he was to take them
to where his friend had secured posi-
tions for them.
He took them to the house Of Mad
anne Harris in Oakford court and left
them. They We're not in the place over
fifteen minutes before they discovered
the nature OF the place and beat q hasty
exit A couple of railroad men who had
followed the trio from the depot, sus-
pecting that all was not right, We're
about to enter the house to make some
inquiries about the two little girls when
they saw them coming out. Not wish
ing to be mixed up in the affair any
more than was necessary they went to
the police station and reported the case
as they knew 1t.
This led to the girls being picked up
as soon as they appeared on the prn-
cipal streets. Yesterday morning they
We're sent back to Stroudsburg on the
milk train.
GIRLS VERY INNOCENT.
The girls were exceedingly innocent
even for young country girls. and did
not seem to realize fully the danger to
which they had been exposed. That
they placed such implicit trust in
strangers Is proof of their unacquaint-
ance with the wiles of the world.
They did not even take particular no
tice Of the men who had figured in
their attempted ruin and could give
only a meagre description OF them. The
man they met In Stroudsburg, they
said. was a stranger there and had only
been in the town few days. The
name he had given them was simply
Bert" saying his friend in Scranton
would know whom they meant.
He wore bottlegreen overcOat and
stiff hat of dark, greenish color.
The man who met them in Scranton
was described as being quite tall and
slender, with dark red mustache and q
prominent nose. He was about S5 years
Of age and had very glib, sporty way
Of talking.
The girls promised to find out If pos
sible who the man in Stroudsburg Is,
If he has not already left there and the
police expect to run down the Scranton
man with the aid Of the railroad men
who shadOwed him and who 1t is
thought will be able to give fuller de-
scription Of him. They have q suspic-
ion Of who the fellow is and will watch
that he does not get out Of town.
ORDERED THEM AWAY.
A Tribune reporter in company with
a police officer visited the Harris house
yesterday and was told that the girls
had come there and asked to be taken
in, but on account of their youth they
We're told there was no room for them
and ordered away. They, of course,
denied all knowledge there, of being the
employers of the prOcurers or OF know
ing anything about them.
They could not explain, however. how
1t was possible that two little country
girls could come direct from Strouds-
burg to their house.