The evening world., 1906-05-28
"WH|TE SLAVE"
CAUGHT AFTER
ODD ESCAPE
Remarkable Story Told of
Flight OF Women Pris-
oners from Custody.

OF two women from tho House OF DO
ten:ion to-day. one OF whom is the most
Emporium, witness against New York
tTanlckors In white Slaves" found an
early denouement n fe whours later by
their capture IN West FIfty-ninth street.
II WAS AZ first believed the women had
rot away through outside political in
nuence. but later investigation revealed
that they made their own way 10 the
roof OF the prison. went through n
scuttic and reached Mulberry street I'M
noticed md without aid.
The women. who we're n; liberty 10
roam. as they pleased in the House
OF Detention, broke the lock OF a door
leading 70 n hall from which runs a
ladder to the scuttle way. They had
taken n poker from the kitchen and
broke through the opening. Here they
made to an adjoining building and got
into Spring street. thence going 10
Mulberry and by subway train 10 the
Fff;y-ninth street address.
Mabel Holmes. a pretty blond girl .,
twenty. who is said to be the wife OF
John Holmes. a %coaehmnn, living AT No.
1886 West Flfty-nineh street. and ON
ployed in Abbott's stables. in West
One Hundred and Twenty-hfth street.
Is ono OF the women who ESCAPED. Her
companion was Lille Dickinson. a
negress. who was being detained as a
witness In n west side homicide case.
important Witnesses Both.
Both women were detained by orders
OF District-Attorney Jerome. The
Holmes woman Is regarded as an espe-
cially important witness. From the day
Spriggs was arrested charged with being
a dealer in white slaves the criminal
courts Ia felt an outside political in
huence that was hard TO overcome. II
was proved that the negro was In the
habit OF Kidnapping white girls and
holding them prisoners. sometimes ,or
weeks. often for months. The negro 80.
. pen,.entiary sentence which will prob
ably mean that he will spend the re-
meinder or his days behind the bars.
The Holmes girl was placed in the
House OF Detention more than three
months ago. with the Dickinson woman
and two other women she was in the
women dormitory. on the TOP floor. In
the floor below the women were eight
men.
The House Of Detention is At No. no
Mulberry stree. The house on toe
north IS the Mulberry street police sta
lion. Abour the roof OF the station
house are sharp iron bars that form a
semicircle. bending inward. To the
south Of the House of Detention IS a
tenement-house. the roof OF which is
twelve feet beiow The House Of De;cn-
zion roof.
Sharp Barrier on Roof.
Sergi Casey was aroused at 100
O'clock tins morning 10y the blowing OF
the whistle from tao women's dormi-
tory. \ womIn's voice called out:
There's "A man on the root. lie wants
us TO leave here"
Casey. with the roundsman and ser-
erhi policeman. ran 10 the women's
dormitory. over the room IS a iran
door, and this was open. \ staple had
been drawn and the door had been
opened from the inside. only two wom-
en- were In the dormitory.
Nv here are the other women" Casey
Police Were Far Behind.
Gone said one OF the women. ana
she pointed TO the open roof door. The
police lifted each other through tn.
trap door, hut the two missing women
were nowhcre IN sight.
10 y AEf ANAAiNAAfN tAfIA fnIHnE gfu-
tIon in New York was notified nat ,be
two women had escaped
Keep . watch on No. 3}G West FIFTY
ninth street was he order sent io
fhe West siNty-eighth Street Station.
Detectives Clcary and Baron were
sent to the Fi~fty-ninth street address
They argued that the two women mad
escaped In prison clothes and tnat the
chances We're they would try 20 get
fresh clothes before leaving the state.
unless the man or men who had aided
them IN breaking jail had provided
themselves with these clothes.
BIuffed the Sleuths
Cleary and Bacon were watching the
F1Ity-ninth street house about dawn
to-day when TWO women Tripod out
at them NJ once.
one OF the women, white. was dressed
IN the height OF fashion She looked
me "ell-born lady In every sense. The
other woman was dressed Ike "A maid
what do yon mean tie white
woman demanded when the detectives
approached her. II YOU don't leave
me at once | Will call the polls. Cant
a decent woman walk tho streets OF
New York without being insultei3"
The woman then said that she was
th> wife OF a prominent business man
OF Jersey CITY, that she had come to
New York with her maid ana that she
had been delayed.
III YOU lay hands on me ! Will sue
the city, she cried.
Tho women were taken to The station
house and thcse The wlitc Woman to'd
such n straight story that the poltco
take had been made The women
We're separated. The white woman de
clared that she was Mrs. Lewis. inc
negro maid s'ld II didn't matter nat
her name Was so long as her mistress
was not intcrferred with.
Stuck to Her Story.
81 will ciye YOU so" sat1 Poli,e