The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-26
STARTLING STORY
TOLD BY A GIRL
Narrative Indicates white
Slave" Traffic Is Being
Carried On.
REVELATIONS ARE MADE
BY MAMIE WILLIAMS
Yelled WOwan. Known as Mrs.
Ainslee," Said to Be the
Chief Figure.

In the arrest and commitment OF
Mamie Williams, only Ii years old, TO
the state industrial school at Ogden
for immortality, the startling informa-
ton has reached the Juvenile court and
police authorities that a female pro.
curer, passing as a ''MrS. AInslee,
is operating in this city and shipping
numbers Of girls of tender ages to
eastern houses Of shame for immoral
purposes.
The Williams girl came under the OBJ
servatton of the Juvenile court officials
through Truant Officer Alma G. Clayton
of the city public schools. Clayton re.
ported her case to Chief Probation
Officer Guardello Brown last Friday,
and Mr. Brown Immediately went 10
between Ninth and Tenth West streets,
and drew the pitiful story of I'M
morality and shame from her.
The girl said that " Mrs. AlDslee
first approached her two years ago,
when she was only l. years old. Mrs.
Ainsleo. - she said, took her TO bathing
establishments, aud afterward 90 her
rooms. There tho alleged female pro
curer compelled her to put on tights
eral men Then she bought handsome
and gaudy gowns. which she dressed her
in. Subsequently she bought her
diamonds and other jewelry, and fnc
laces, and promised her riches if she
would allow her TO send her east to Il
house of shame, telling her of other
girls that she had sent east who were
wearing handsome clothes, gowns and
fine iewory, and doing well financially.
Offer Is Refused
The girl refused. she said, but "Mrs.
Ainslce' gradually came to exercise .
sort of a hypnotic power over her;
Eventually she came under the halefUl
influence of the woman 10 such an eZ-
tent that she did almost everything
"MrS. Aiusleo' told her to do, regard
less of right or wrong,
According Go the girl S story, "Mrs.
Ainsloc' is not the only agent Of cast
ern dealers in "whitc slaves IN Salt
Lake City. Through "Mrs. Aiuslee
and other sources, the girl said, she
learned that young girls were being
tell NtT. Brown where Mrs. Aims.
lee S" quarters are, and the matter has
been reported TO the police. Lieut..
Richard shannon is working on that
end Of the case, but there are no
tangible clues, and the progress is
GtCtSShillN $40" ana uncertain.
Three men are now in custody under
charges of illicit relations with the
Williams girl. They are Joseph Young,
q clerk IN Hemenway & MoseT's cigar
store on West Second South street
Ed NJ. Barlow a messenger boy, 10
years old, and JOHN Doe, q waiter at
the Combination bar, East Second South
street. They are only charged with
furnishing the girl with liquor, Satur,
Il l,,,t ~, !. II I
against them. Young and Doe were
arraigne1 before Justice Anton Lund-
berg Wednesday and pleaded not
guilty.
Says SHE Was Assaulted.
The girl told Mr. Brown OF being
criminally assaulted in a saloon at Sec.
ond South and Sixth West streets
about two months ago, \ young man
took her into wine room occupied by
another man and woman, and the latter
held her while her companion assaulted
her, she said, Last Saturday night
Young took her into n wine room in
the Combination bar, she said. and kept
her there until , o clock Sunday morn
ing. Then he turned her over to Bar.
low TO be taken home, but after they
had gone part of the way homo they
came back up town and went 10 n
rooming house, where they remained
until daylight.
Mrs, Ainslee' is known as "the
yelled lady" the girl says. She always
wore a veil, presumably to disguise her
self, and frequently other methods of
disguise, such as goggles and wigs of
different colors. This woman, according
to the girl. went so far in her efforts
TO procure "white slaves for eastern
houses as to call at different houses
where young girls lived and attempt to
induce them to 60 walking with her.