The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-01-25
Mother Of One Of the Girls viii File
an Affidavit Against the
Woman
WHO ENTICED The GIRL
away FROM her Home,
Sensational Developments In the
Case of Procuring That Has
Come to Light.

Mrs Mary White. of 1902 East Ninth
street, says she will file a complaint in
mayors court against Miss Essie Rider,
of Wheeling, w. Va, Thursday after
noon, charging that young woman with
being a procuress.
Mrs. White will ask that a warrant be
issued for the arrest of the Wheeling
woman, it is said, and eXtradition pa
pers will be asked for to have her
brought to Canton for trial.
Developments following on the heels
of the departure of Miss Emma Simetz
for Wheeling. and her subsequent re-
turn to Canton, are of an exceedingly
sensational nature. Miss Smetz, as
was stated in the News Democrat We'd
nesday afternoon. was enticed from er
home in Canton by a young woman
from Wheeling. Miss Simetz is a mere
child, being only Is years old but she is
a decidedly beautiful girl.
Miss Emma Murphy, another young
Canton girl of tender age, waa also in
duced to so to Wheeling with Miss
Rider, who is said to be an agent for
one of the most notorious dives in the
West Virginia city. The woman who
question is Miss Ella Dillon. The dive
is at 1919 Alley C, in Wheeling.
Mrs. Mary White is the mother of
Miss Smetz. She returned Wednesday
night from Wheeling. with her daugh-
ter, who had been taken into custody
by the Wheeling chief of police, to await
the arrival of her mother When Miss
simetz was placed under arrest. Miss
Murphy, the other Canton girl, was re-
leased Wednesday morning. She is an
orphan, it is said, and there was no one
to fetch her back to this city.
To the Wheeling chief of police the
two girls told their story Miss Murphy
exhibited letter that had been written
TO her by the "landlady" of the motor
ious resort in Alley c. The chief of po-
lice took possession of this eplstle and
will use it as evidence against the wo-
man. The chief then advised Mrs.
White to return to Canton and have a
warrant issued for the arrest of Miss
Rider, charging her with being pro-
curess.
1t appears that the two Canton girls
mentioned in the foregoing We're not the
orly ones that the Wheeling woman is
said to have tried to procure. Another
young woman, whose name is withheld
by the interested persons, was also
cooked to go to West Virginia "to live
n life of ease and luxury"
A News Democrat reporter called on
Mrs. White this morning and heard her
story, as well as the story told by Miss
Emma SimetZ Mrs. White said:
TUESDAY afternoon l saw Miss Rider
talking with my daughter. on the street.
| told Emma to come home and she
said she would come in just a few
minutes. That was the last / saw of
her until / arrived in Wheeling to fetch
her back to Canton.
"At the Wheeling & Lake Erie sta
ton in this city learned that the wo-
man who signs her name as Miss Dill
lon had sent three tickets to the Wheel
Ing agent here. These tickets were in
tended for my daughter. Miss Murphy
md another Canton girl. They were to
be delivered to the girls when they call
ed for them.
"As soon as learned that my daugh-
ter had been spirited away and was in
q house of i'll fame l communicated
with the mayor and he sent telegram
to Wheeling to have her arrested, as
was mentioned in the papers.
II am going to prosecute the persons
"ho NH'iNtu my uthhbhNNi liOil hti
home; l shall prosecute them to the
full extent of the law"
Miss Emma SimetZ said: "The Rider
girl told me that l would have a good
time for the rest Of my life If I would
go with her to Wheeling and live in the
house with Miss Dillon.
"She said the girls all there had good
times, and that they dressed in silks
and lived on the best of everything. She
said l would have no work to do. but
that / could go to parties, balls and
dances, and that the girls there were
all very happy and contented.
81 do not know why went, but every
thing was said to be so lovely that /
Just couldn't stand the temptation.
Miss Rider said that Miss Murphy and
the other Canton girl were going, too,
and that we would not be lonesome.
as there would be some people there
that we knew.
II had received letters before from
the Dillon woman telling me to come,
and she sent Miss Rider after US"
Miss Murphy will return to Canton
at the end of the week, according to
the statements she made to Miss Simetz
when the two girls parted in Wheel
ing Wednesday.
Miss Simetz mother and step-father
are respectable hard working people.