The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-03-05
ST. LOUIS GIRLS ENSLAvED.
Carried Away by Force to Dens oil
Wickedness.

MlckedneSS.
n Louis, Feb. 26.-As the result
q grand jury investigation instl'
stated by the circuitattorney, Joseph
n. Folk, a raid on a syndicate OF
xse was made this afternoon ON
bench warrants charging Louis and
Max Soviner, alias Ssbiner and
Charles, alias Beef Williams with
conducting "slave houses" where
young girls are systematically sold
fnto vice.
Nathan KreunEer, a partner oil the
soyiner Bros. in the saloon business,
vas also arrested on a bench war
rant 1t is expected that wholesale
arrests of policemen, women and real
estate owners will follow tomorrow
as the result Of disclosures made
before the grand jury by the hall
hundred witnesses examined to-day.
The Souvenir Bros, Circuit Attorney
Folk says, were run put OF New York
aity ior offenses similar to those
charged against them here, when the
niorms in that city were instituted
and they are said to he proprletors
n, nj least ten houses in this city
where the riff.raff Of New York have
beer imported and vice is placed ut
.olow a figure that even young boys
and girls are corrupted.
GIRLS TAKEN FoRcIBLY.
According to the circuit attorney q
office the conditions which have pre-
vailed in these "slave houses" are in
describable. Protected by the police
yice has flourished and grown in al
its most hideous forms and the sec
,ion Of the city between Twelfth ant
Ninth streets, Lucas and Morgan
became the scene OF nightly crimes
1t is charged that women and girl'
returning from their work in the
evening have been lured or iorcibly
dragged into these vile houses ano
compelled to do the bidding OF thei
raptors. Sometimes they we're KEEP
prisoners for days and when they es
capped they we're too much ASHAMED
10 tell about it.
The women who wereimported her
Tor the Soviner Bros. are said to b
the worst type imaginable and th
traffic has been systematized to
i.pree that will startle the worlt
Men and women have lured girlsiroI
country towns and have even gon
into the streets after night and cal
tured them, to force them into sla'
cry.
The worst feature OF all in thi
latest exposure of municipal eorruE
zion is the apparent connection {
Abe police department with the pre-
lection of these infamous dens. TheI
Is we'll defined report that some
the highest police officials in the cit
will be indicted for accepting hood
10 protect the Soviner Bros. place
and it is an open secret at the lot
courts that to.day's raid on tt
"slave houses" marks the beginnin
Of the open breach between circu
attorney Folk and the police depar
Ment.
Mr.. Folk was displeased by tt
manner in which Chief Kelly execute
lis orders to raid the houses tn
afternoon. Instead OF sending me
from the central district, Kelly tel
-4heaea to the fourth district static
and ordered the raid to be made
she very men who were suspected
protecting the slave houses in the
district
When Mr.. Folk learned that Il
raids were made in this way and thu
several houses received warning
advance Of the raids and that maj
OF the young girls had been spirit'
awav or concealed before the raj
we're made, he smiled and said: Is
makes no difference. l have all t
.. evidence l need"
,Children's Coughs and Colds.