The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-21
WHITE SLAVES.
A Horrible Tale That Comes
from New York.
STARTLING FACTS

Work Are Sent to Dens of
Infany and Then Held as
Prisoners.
Tue New York American says a!
an outcome Ct an all day irouisitlo1
by Assistant District Attorney Ely
Deputy Assistant Vandivec and CaieI
Clerk Henneberry into the trsft1ic II
white slaves conducted by band OF
negroes, the head OF which vas the
notorious Bcb Spriggs, several arrests
have been made.
Berthe Claiahe and Hattie Warren
and Cora Chester, the women who art
in the Tonbs awaiting trial for thel'
participation in the case, were pu'
Though most severe examinations ano
1t is said, disclosed facts more hloeous
than have yet been revealed.
Through those onen NJ Ely hopes
to b-iog to the Il :liic oi-Air Lne men
who, 1t is tene: eC, murdered tWo
white women in one Of Spetsa'S den
two years ago and had their b 'cles
= buried at the dead Of night in negro
cemetery.
Oa their testimony Mr.. E = expect
to bring to Justice the pollce amen VINO
for years nave levisd tribute Oh
Sprtggs, with the tu knowledge of
the tribute on Spriggs, win the 1uli
knowledge OF the tratts III which ne
vas engaged.
These men, it was said cn good
authority, we're under surveillance,
and as soon as the formalitles necsA-
sary to their arrest have been com.
pleted they will be placed in custody.
The ramifcations OF this case are
shown to te more and more extensive
as the investigation proceeds. Already
they have led the probsrs into she
roons Of the police captains OF both
the Tenderlcin and Charles street PC
lice stations. Thence they have ro.h-
ted to 8 number OF politicians.
That the men who received the
bribe money were Il oIcuehly aVart
OF its source was learned from unWl.-
ling admissions by the police of the
Charles street station.
There it was learned that within
the last few months, since captain
Halpin has been il command OF tna
=nrt cinct Spriggs has been arrested on
noss serious charges.
To be molested oy tie police was az
experience be lad rever under
gone in al the twenty Long years pre-,
vious.
Notwithstanding all Captains asl.
pins tfo1ts, however, scme one high
er up mystericu ly saved Spriggs, snc
the witne sses against him were spin
ted away.
The last case OF that bind was as
late as February 10 last. o. that
date Spriggs was arrested on the COM
plaint OF q ninete en- year. old girl, whc
gave her name as Mary Boiler anc
her address as No. 4Zs Carlton avenue
Brooklyn. She accu,ed Spriggs OF
abduction.
According to her sworn testimony,
she asked man to direct her IN
Brooklyn to an address she was seek
ing.
he seemed very courteous and In
yited hea into restaurant for re-
freshments. She awoke sn what she
suhsl ouently learned whs one OF
Spriop's CorLelia street dives, and
saw q negro stanaiug over her. Sne
escaped after few days and fed to
the police.
Spriggs when arraigned broughtap-
psrently reputable white men to tes-
ttty In bis behalf, and, notwithstand
Ing the gravity of the Cff.nse, the
MAGISTRATE in Jefferson Market Court
held him in the nominal bail OF 81 600
for further examination. Tne date
for that examination was setsfor next
week. Captain Halpin' detectives, in
preparing the case two days ago, went
to the address the R lie girl gave In
Brooklyn, only to lind that she had
bsen spirited away.
Ii the case against Sptiggs that
Immediately preceded the one 10
which Mary Boiler was the sccuser,
the charge was an stack on q youns
girs. Spriggs was then held fo1
fu.rher examination, and Was dis
charged when arranged the second
time because 30 complainant appear
ed.
he sa,donically remarked ip court
that the action had been settled
out Ct court" Spriggs was arrested
the first time under Captain Ealpin' :
regime for keeping an illegal resort
He escaped with a6ae Of slo0.
Spriggs is a big factor In politics.
Ee controls the negro vote In 'HelPs
Kitchen" and on the lower west Side
and for years was the leader OF the
Tammany Hall G C,lored Mems Asso.
citation, in lower West Thiad stree.
It was his iIfu5nce, it is ssid, that
defeated O'Neil, the candidate e vii
liam Astor Chanler for Democratic
ieader OF the Fifth Assembly Dis
trict. State Senotor Bernard Maj
tins secretary. joe Prenoergast
IN whom Martin transferred the dis
trict leadership won.
That the political pull exercised BY
Spciggr reached former Police Com
missioner M"Adoo's Office was dem
nstrated by the sudden transfer o