Sunday Washington globe., 1902-01-19

Blaokmail Their Aged Admirers
A Warning to the Authorities TO b,
Slow I'm Issuing warrants-Gov
HOadIey's Conviction in Thes,
Matters
A short while ago a Seveuth-street mer
chant was put ir jeopardy of his libertyFby
charge Of rape or improper liberties with
young girl OF girls under age. This is
serious charge, as, If guilty, the perpetratoi
is sent for long term to the peuiteutiary
besides the attendant disgrace to his family
and kinfolks In the case quoted the mer
z chant established his entire innocence OF
the charge and was acquitted by a jury
Now it may be asked what has become ol
ne equally serious crime Of which these
young girls have been guilty in falsely
swearing. PERJURY is a states prison Of
fense and those who charged the merchant
are guilty of that crime. Why have they
not been arrested, indicted and tried?
The result of this leniency or system OF
condonement is encouraging immoral young
girls all over the city. These girls, ranging
in age from twelve land even younger) to
sixteen years of age, are instructed by older
companions. Following out these instruc-
tiOns they become intimate with middle
aged men Of families and successfully black
mail them through threats of exposure to
their families or arrest for rape,
These children in crime are perfectly
familiar with the law of consent" and
when the middle aged paramour reminds
the girl that the act or acts were by mutual
consent she coolly reminds him Of the law
which disquali6es her from giving consent
and leaves him liable to prosecution.
AS a rule the young girl in these cases
works her aged admirer for quite awhile
before she springs her black mail scheme.
She secures money, iewelry, gloves and
presents Of all kinds. When she has OBJ
tained all she thinks he will stand, she
springs the blackmail program. Some
times an older female friend or relative
is the medium through which she conducts
her negotiations, and very often some
shyster lawyer takes the case and extracts
money.
The victim is sometimes an easy mark
and pays the blackmail demanded for fear
of exposure. He has wife and family, he
is in business, and such a dreadful charge
might not only injure his business, but dis
rupt his home. The GLOBE has been put
in possession of several cases of this kind,
and in one noted instance saved the mer-
chant and compelled the shyster lawyer to
make restitution or the alternative Of pub
lication of the whole uefarious scheme and
his disbarment, if not sentence to the peni-
tentiary.
II is proper to state that this we'll organ
ized piracy is confined principally to young
white girls whose immoral environments
leaves no other hope for them from their
birth but the street and the bagnio. These
unfortunate creatures have no period of in
nocent childhood. They are adopts in
petty pilfering from their tenderest years
and very early develop those other qualifi-
cations of the gutter which equip them to
prey upon VICTIMS such as have been de-
scnbed While, as stated this industry"
is almost exclusively confined to the young
white girls, there is an occasional clumsy
attempt made by the colored damsel in
crime For obvious reasons the good look
ing young white girl has a monopoly of
this business Of blackmail, but the case de.
velOped the past week of a colored girl
who tried to work the game evidences the
fact that the young black nymph due pare
ter when opportunity presents itself The
facts in this latter case, so far developed
do not differ materially from the usual pro-
gram Of the white girl blackmailer only in
50 far as the desperate action Of the elder
of the two blackmailers in using a pistol
and shooting the intended victim.
Noah w Tryon. a Treasury Department
CLERK, sixty years of age, and residing at
in his hip from pistol in the hands of Ada
Washington. uegress, thirty one years Of
age, residing at II Fentou street northwest
where the shooting occurred. And here IS
the story Of the cause Of the shooting as
published by the daily press.
Lizzie Waller, seventeen years Of age,
sister Of Ada Washington, had been in Mr..
Tryon's employ for year or more until De
cember 2 last. On Monday of last week a
veiied woman called at the cash room at the
Treasury Department where Mr. Tryon has
been employed for several years, and asked
to see him. She requested him to step in
to the corridor and there she became bois-
terous and made certain charges regarding
Mr.. Tryou's conduct with her sister The
latter. she declared, had been in III health.
Mr.. Tryon gave the woman IS aud she de-
parted.
Last Thursday evening he went to Ada
Washingtons house, but the girl was not
there. Mr. rryon told the woman to bring
her sister to his house and make any
statement she had to make before his wife.
This she declined to do, and il was arranged
that he should see her at the Fentou street
house on Monday evening.
When Tryon called the Washington
woman left the room where Tryon and
Lizzie Waller we're conversing, but soon
returned with a pistol and placing Il to the
girls head told her that If she denied hav-
ing made the charge against Mr.. Tryon she
would kill her. Mr.. rryon said that she
then directed the girl to 20 out into the