The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-04
STAYS POLICE.
White Slavery Queen Makes a
Serious Charge.
NEW YOHK OFFICERS
Said to Be IT, Pay of The Demons Who
Decoyed lanoesnt Young White
Girls Into Dens of Infamy
Kept By Negroes In
New York,

SIUu5 CfSl 1Cl6CCO LII O SJOlV Collie
Bennett laid bare the whole details q
the white trade traffic in the city o1
New York, says the American. II
really makes ones blood freeze to rese
how innocent white girls hunting
work were lured to their destruction
and imprisonment by Spriggs and his
imps Of darkness.
Just before she untur6ened herself
of the awful story Of crime, degrada
tion and graft, IN which she msntion
ed names and addresses, she was sen.
fenced by Judge CoWing in the Court
OF General Sessions to term of ter
years in Auburn prison for the part
she admitted she had played in tie
Imprisonment q white girls.
Robert E. Spriggs, the white slave
king, whose Cornelia street girl cage
for years held white prisoners at the
mercy of neg-o men, was arraigned
for seateuce ahead Of her and got tne
full penalty OF the law, twenty years
in Sirg Sing at hard labor. This Vir-
tually neals a life sentence to the
mulauto, as he Is forty. eight years
ca now, a-d his health Is not very
good.
Attorney Mark Alter asked for an
arrest OF Judgment for the man who
vas convicted for abduction by jury
that did not even waste the time to
poll a ballot, but Judge Cow!ng would
listec to nc motion. In delivering the
sentence snd addressing Spriggs, the
court said:
II doubt il anywhere in New York
there can be fou1G creature 30 de
based as you-So devoid Of q seass ",
lonor and decelSy. Ycu are a living
example Of total deprsvity. Had ycu
lived in a State where the laws are
less closely gu rded you would never
have lived to stand trial. AS a warn-
ing to others who may be fcliowiDgin
your footsteps am going to give you
the limit. I sentence you to the max
imum for your crime twenty years at
hard labor
When the trembling mulatto had
been led away Sallie Bennett, ne
gress, WHO conducted q den similar to
Spriggs's, and who had an arrange
menu for cooperation with him, was
brought over from the Tomts. Sh:
aad pleaded guilty to abducting a II
ear old girl.
Olce back in her imprisonment che
sent wo:d to the District Attorneys
afics that she had something to tell
before she was taken to the penitel-
Eiary. Assistant District Attorney
Garvin saw her. and to him She un
folded the story that she hao refused
TO teu until after her sentence had
been pronour c I. She evaded no
questions, and frankly admitted her
own culpability.
She gave the names OF policemen II
uniform and cit;z,ns' Clothes who, she
charged, received graft from dens such
as she ard Spriggs had conducted. and
she mentioned CIV keepers, with their
addresses, who, s1e claimed, were pay
ing for police protection to her posi-
tive knowledge. The name OF q white
woman, whom she says aided IN lur-
ing girls into the black dens, was ire.
q ntly mentioned.
Following Is Saliie Benefits story,
With names omitted:
Daring my career in New York,
which dates back as far as 1879. l
have paid thousands Of dollars to tae
police. Much Of this was stolen mo
nsy, and tie police knew it, but l
was permitted to go on and on, and
so long as I was able to pay my way l
was not worried about arrests and
fines in the polic3 court. Is 1t any
wonder that I grew more and more
desperate? Is it any wonder that l
I'm on the road to Auburn now?
II got along fair ? well with the
police until last April. I was then
Inv ng at No. llS West Seventeenth
street. Miss --, 8 white woman, !,
vas an accomplice in most every thing
ohat vas done there. She now lives
in West TWenty-seVenth street, aud l
cav. frequently seen her talking With
policemen.
Last April she robbed Peter Pedro
aho lives in Est Thirty-third street,
OF slOo in my place Pedro was gone
out q short time when a uniformed
cfaoer, who travelled beat in West
Twenty sixth street, came to see me
and demanded that I give up sthe
money Of which Pedro had baen rob
oed. I told him to come back at
O'Clock.
IN the mean time three plair
clothes men from the Thirtieuh street
station came and demanded the mon
ey. 7 told them of the visit OF the
uniformed cfficer. One OF the p!air
clothes men said: IT you give thai
money to him we will lock you up
I told them to come back at I O'Clock
The uniformed ofh,er was back at
O'Clock. I refused to give him tn
money, although had it In my pos
session.
After that the woman who hat
committed the ROBBERY went out ant
called IN still another riain clothe
nan. Why did't you let zee know il
the start. and could hive fx=d it TO
you? be asked. I gave him $40 OF th
money. The next evening one CT tn
original plain Clothes men cams to M
and said he had had the victim 0
the robbery 'sloughed,' tut tEat d
vas hard kicker, and there vas n
way to fix it up except to give tn
whole amount back to him.
II tol5 tie policeman that II o
would send hin around I would II
turn him the money. They Gid sen
him around, and I save him $50.
From that time on tie polio
drove me from place to place. sa'