The record-union., 1898-08-31
RESCUED FROM SHAME.
A YOUNG GIRL TAKEN FROM
Low COMPANY.
Just From Home. She Was Soon
Started on the Down
Grade.

Chief of Police Dwyer is on the war
path. This time the Chiefs indigna-
tion has been aroused against a class
of degraded men and women who traf-
nc in the ruin of young and unsophisti-
Gated girls.
On Sunday Chief Dwyer met on j
street young and rather attractive girl
OF about 16 years of age, whose manner
was such as to cause him to suspect
that she was newcomer and was out
10 make the acquaintance of men. He
turned and followed her to see where
she went, and when he saw her enter
the lodging-house on Fourth and K
streets, over the old Postoffice building,
MS suspicion was strengthened.
To Officers Fisher and Maley the
Chief related the circumstance and in
structed them to keep a watch on the
girl and see with what class of people
she kept company. The officers ascer-
tained that she was running" with a
man named Slack and a young woman
whom, it is said, he was lately induced
to marry-at all events, they claim to
be man and wife.
Pursuing their investigation the Off
GERS ascertained that the girl had come
here few days ago from one of the
mountain counties to procure a stua-
ton; that she fell in with the Stacks,
and had been occupying a room near
theirs; that appointments We're made
with men to meet her in their rooms,
and that the girl had been dragged
down to the level of a common prosti-
tute
Yesterday Slack, his wife the girl
and one of the men who had been occu-
pying the latter's room with her were
arrested by Fisher and Maley and
locked up in the City Jail. Last even
ing the girl was taken into Chief Dwy-
er's office and there, between her sobs
she told the story of her departure from
home and why she came to Sacramento
She told of her meeting with the Slack
couple, and how she was taken out to
a saloon frequented by low characters
and induced to drink beer until she
was intoxicated.
She said she was but 16 years of age,
and that she wanted to be sent home
to her good old mother, there to redeem
herself, for she had no desire to fol-
low the life she had lived here the past
week. 1t was all new and strange to
her, and utterly abhorrent. But she
was young and inexperienced and had
been led into it before she realized how
she was being degraded
The girl has the appearance of one
who was We'll reared, and her bitter
tears We're ample proof of the Shame
that overwhelmed her Not one word
of slang-not a rough expression--fell
from her lips during the interview
Chief Dwyer will at once communicate
with her family and will see that she
reaches her home in safety.
As TO the persons under arrest, the
Chief viii see what can be done with
them. He is not sure that he can make
out a case that some shrewd attorney
may not be able to defeat on a techni-
cality, but if he should see his way
clear TO do so he will carry it through.
But the Chiefs eyes have been open
ed TO the fact that cases of this Kind
have not been infrequent in the past,
and he is determined to stop the bust
ness while he is at the head of the
Police Department. He has instructed
the officers to pay special attention TO
cases of young girls who may be seen
in the company Of men or women of
low character, to report them promptly.
and even to take the parties into Gus
tody if the circumstances warrant inn
mediate Interference