The evening world., 1908-10-27
GIRL LUREO FROM
HOME BY WOMEN,
It IS CHARGED
Four Arrested and Held in
$1,000 Bail for Further
Hearing.
vULTURES, COURT SAYS.
Missing 15-Year-Old Fannie
Collins Found With
Two of Them.
VULTURES, COURT SAYS.

-Four women were arraigned in York
Turing a fifteen year-old girl from her
home, and. after a bitter denunc!ation
by Magistrate Crane, were held in s., ooo
bail each for an examination on Thurs
day morning. The women gave their
names as Frances Taylor, twenty-nine
years old, and her sister, Mrs. Carrie
Duncan, thirty years old. both OF No.
Si3 West Fifty-eighth street; Margaret
Sheppard, thirty-four years old. Column
bus avenue near one Hundred and Fifth
street, and Mary Dale. forty years old
who lives on West Sixty-slXth street
near Sixth avenue.
Vincent T. Plssara. agent OF the Chill
drens Society. was the complainant
against the women. Agent Pissara told
what he alleged TO be the true story OF
fifteen-year- Fannie Collins who
disappeared from her home, No s6l
Washington street. on Oct. "a. The
Taylor and Duncan women. he sad,
had lured the giri' away from home
through seventeen year-o!d Martha Col
Inns. who also was in court. The girls
are not relatives
Too Pretty to Work.
Previous to leaving her home Fannie
Collins, Pissara said, had met Martha
Collins at a dance. Later, it is alleged.
she went to the home OF the Taylor
and Duncan women on an invitation.
There, Pissara alleges. the women told
the girl, who is remarkably pretty. that
she was too beautiful to work in a
store and should wear good clothes and
alleges, the girl ran away from home
and went TO live with the Taylor
women.
Duncan women made a business OF sup
Pissara submitted as evidence a leather
bound book containing what he asserts
bers of more than four hundred such
houses.
According to Pissara. Fannie Collins
was KEEP, 81, in the nat OF the 81, sisters for
of these houses. He alleged she had
been sent for Immoral purposes to a
house kept by Mrs Sheppard and also al =,
that while the police were looking for
the girl he and his fellow agents 10
Gated her In the Taylor house. The girl,
he said, was very glad to get away and
said that she had been ashamed to go
home.
The women were represented by a
lawyer who protested against the ZOO
bail unreasonable
Il consider 5000 bail each very rea-
sonab le," said Magistrate Crane. hotly.
This Is horrible story and these
women undoubtedly should not be freed
on light ball No wonder so many girls
disappear from their homes and are
never heard of again. What else could
be expected with these vultures looking
TO trap girls,
The police and the District-Attorney
should be supplied with a copy OF this
book containing these names and adj
dresses and telephone numbers and
there should be wholesale arrests"
Both Martha and Fannie Collins were
In. court, but neither was examined
Fannie Collins was sent to the CHI
dren's Society and Martha 10 the House
OF Detention.
Startling Evidence Promised.
After the arraignmenl of the four
women Magistrate Crane as well as the
agents OF the Society said that when
the case was called on Thursday some
startling evidence would be given. The
agents say that another arrest OF a
woman would be made within the next
twentyfour hours and that an aged
man. prominent not only In society but
in Wal street dealings. would also be
arrested.
In adjourning the case Magistrate
Crane told the agents TO go slow in col
lecting their evidence, and when the
case was heard 10 come TO the court
with all facts verified.