Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-10
Positive Evidence at Sioux City
That a Systematic Cam
paign Is Being Made
THREE GIRLS ARE RESCUED
They Had Been Promised Positions on
the Stage at Large Salaries and Had
Their Baggage All Packed-"Asen.'
of the Syndicate Likely to Be Ar
rested.
Special to Times Republican

Special to Times Republicans
Sioux City, March lO.-Infatuated by
the glittering prospect of q
career on the stage to be In
auguarted at the st. Louis fair,
where as members of the "merry-mer-
ry' OF a comic opera chorus they were
to receive $50 week and all expenses,
three girls, Sadie Dingman, aged is.
Nellie, her sister. aged 16 and Mary
Devlin, aged 16, were on the point of
starting for the worlds fair city last
night, when they We're rescued from
the hands of procurer by the po-
lice.
Both the Dingman girls are under
sized and look more like they were
about 13 and Is years old. They wear
their hair in braids, school birl fashion,
and their dresses barely reach the tops
of their shoes.
The Devlin girl had her baggage
ready to leave and the Dingmaa girls
had arranged to steal away from their
home. The man who mad
the tickets for the girls WAS
to meet them at the Northwestern de-
pot and had arranged for their recep
ton at ST. Louis by a woman who is
believed to be member Of a syndicate
of dissolute characters which is pro-
curing girls for immoral purposes for
the fair.
Loyal to Agent.
Angry because they had been in
tercepted in what they believed was
the chance Of a life time to begin he
atrical career, the girls defied Chief
Davenport and Police Matron Thurs
ton and refused absolutely to give the
name of the agent, who is said to be
still in Sioux City. They admitted the
man had sent two parties OF girls to
st. Louis but refused to reveal the
names. After some consultation the
Devlin girl was sent to the Goiod Sep
herds home and the Dingl1nau iris
were allowed to go home WI neir
mother, who lives at 1912 oulig
row.
Chief Davenport told the fglris that
he believed he knew the ma1l Wlo has
been enticfng girls from THEIR iomes
here and today an investigator was
started which may result an NE ar
rest of the three men-one' OF hem
stranger and the chief agent of the
procuring agency-the Others TWO To-
cal youths whose acquaints.lce among
the poorer girls of the town mace
them valuable in bringing uhem hto
touch with the procurer.
Matron Thurston although baffled IN
discovering the identity of the pro-
curers. nevertheless expects to learn
who they are before tomorrow. Little
announcement may be expected from
the girls who even now believe the man
is really what he represents himsei TO
be and are accordingly furious because
they have been baked in their purpose
of going on the stage.
Mother Is Furious.
At the Dingman home yesterday
Sadie and Nellie Dingman who are IN
charge of their mother, at first de-
clined to make any statement regarding
the affair. Mrs Dingnaan and her son
Fred. however were more communica-
tive, Fred declared he would pummel
the bogus theatrical agent, and Mrs
Dingman, in her Indignation said she
honed the mothers of Sioux City would
organize a tar and feather party and
ride the procurer out of town on rail-
Rut tho girls We're stubborn in their