Evening journal., 1904-09-29
DELAWARE GIRL
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her she said. that he was earning SIS
week IN a tailoring shop at Eighteenth
and Wallace streets, and he promised tol
marry the child.
Telling Mr. Bppert and his wife OF her
intention. she quit her work Monday
night. She having been faithful in service
her employer gave her a wedding present,
as she went away. ostensibly TO meet one
Of the men and go with him to Camden toI
be married.
Law and order agents that night we're
In she Third street house. gathering owl
dence, when Canessa and Vicdi, they say,
entered with the Timmons girl.
They asked the Ford woman, Il Is all
legged, IL she did not desire to engage an
other girl. She replied that she might IT,
Is alleged, whereupon the men said they
had the girl with them.
Overheard the Deal.
After some parleying an agent Of the
Law and order Society declared, yester-
day, the woman remarked that Il don't
know that L want girl. don't want TO
buy a girl, now"
Finally. said the agent, she agreed to
take her saying she would give two
fifty" IL was agreed also, according TO
the Law ana Order agent. that the men
were 20 share the girls earnings.
When the men departed they were
shadowed by Law and order agents, and
returning to the Third-street house Tues
day night. with the girl, they were fol-
lowed TO Eighth and Dickinson streets,
where they were arrested. They were
locked in the Moyamensing avenue police
station.
Realizing her condition. after being de-
serted IN the Thlrd-street house, the Tlm-
mons girl began TO weep. Between sobs
she told her story TO another inmate, who
advised her 20 escape Aided by the older
girl, Ida rlmmons was preparing 20 flee
when Law ana Order agents raided the
place at o'clock Wednesday morning.
With the Ford woman were taken Rose
Clark, Bella Hunter. Flora Lane, Jennie
Davis and Ida Timmons.
Told a Pitiful Story.
Her voice choked with sobs. the Tim
mons girl told her story IN tho Magls-
trates Court. She said:
~ came here from Delaware to get
work. worked In the restaurant about
seven months. There / met the man. and
nc told me he loved me and asked me tc
marry him. lie said he was tailor and
earned tis a week. told Mr. Bippert.
"when / thought we were going TO Cam,
den the man took me to the Third street
house. thought a friend lived there
and when ! knew what kind OF place q
was / cried"
Tears streamod down her childish face
and she could notp roceoed. She Is IS year
old, slender. and wears her light BROW
hair in braids. She was given to the car
OF a charitable society TO be kept as
! witness against the accused mon.
After disposing of the case against th
men and the Ford woman. Magistrat
Eisenhrown held the other inmates In so
bail.
Ida Timmons was born upon a far
J. near Millsboro. Sussex county. Her fathl
G died. and her mother married Willia
Sockriter.
r They are poor, and the girl was brougl
= TO this city by Henry Hudson of So
- Watts street friend OF the family. WI
|, has known the Timmons child all h,
/ life.
! Then she was employed by Mr.. Bipper
who said last night that she was absC
lutoly innocent Of the ways OF the world
'She won the friendship OF my wife.
he said. "and we took an interest in he
am extremely sorry for her.
/ Hudson, who attended the hearing. wa
Indignant.
District Attorney Tauiane intcrviewo
the inmates OF the Third street house yes
terday, and one OF them, he said admltte
that she had been taken TO the place by
] young Jew
} She was ready to testify but the otheri
he said, were not. He declared that th
Z case was one of the most Infamous With
his knowledge.
Commenting further upon Il, Mr.. Gil
honey said
Ida Timmons Is an unsophsticated. ir
nocent country child. She barely escape
3 moral ruin.
+ MANY others have not been so fortunai
al In retting free from the infamou
wretches who are enabled. through th
p miserable inehiciency OF the police sy.
tenn, TO conduct their notorious traffice
. supplying girls for innumerable dives dt
! ing business in.thls city