The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-28
Police Think They Have White
Slavery Sensation, But Girls
story is Much Dis
credited.
ESCAPED FROM CONVENT
Has Been Wild Girl and When
Found Was Living With
Negroes Amid Many
Negro shacks.


street, was found in negro shack IN
Peoria consorting with a colored man
named S. Taylor, says the Burlington
Hawk-Eke. The discovery Of the
whereabouts of the girl was made
by the Peoria police about 1880 this
morning. The girl had been missing
for some time and the Peoria police
were notified, and had been searching
for her A telephone message to The
Hawk-Eye early this morning stated
the facts concerning the discovery,
and gave evidence that the police
there have considered they have
sensational case of white slavery.
The girl had told them a thrilling
story about having her fare from Bur-
lington paid by a negro whose name
she gave as Tom Wall who she said di-
rected her to negro in Peoria named
Tom Wilds. She claimed she had
been kept in bondage for four weeks
in the shack by the negroes.
An investigation of the girls story
here reveals the fact that her state
ments are not worthy of belief and
that the case is merely one of a way
ward and depraved young women.
Well Known in Burlington.
Catherine Vallandingham is well
known to the Burlington police as a
sad case of depravity. and sorrow to
respectable parents. About year and
| a half ago she came under the notice
| of Police Matron Ransom through the
report of her parents that she was mis-
sing. She was discovered in ques-
| tionable circumstances but was turn
ed over to her home. Later on she
was again missing and her mother
notified the police. At that time the
girl was found in a rooming house on
North Main street by the police mat
ron. Although the matron recognized
/ her the girl attempted to deceive the
officials as to her identity. She gave a
| fictitious name and said she was from
| Ottumwa that she had been driven
| from home, and had been cared for
/ by a grandfather in Fort Madison
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girl was finally taken to the police
station and kept over night The next
day she was turned loose, and after
purchasing some carbolic acid, smear
ed 1t over her face, and went home
climbed in the window and crept un-
noticed into bed. Whens the other
children went to bed they discovered
her and raised cry that she had at
tempted suicide. A physician was
called, and found that the girl was
4 not injured.
Escaped From Parents.
She next escaped from her parents
while attending salvation army
meeting and spent several days with
some negro men, and then went to
Live with some colored folks on Valley
! street, telling them her folks had lock-
ed her out of the house, and she had
no place to go. The people did not
know her, and so kept her until she
was again discovered by the police.
Then on September 80 last she was
taken to Peoria by Police Matron RaI-
som, and placed in the convent of the
4 Good Shepherd, from whence she es-
capped shortly afterwards. She was
captured and taken back to that in
stitution, and on the 18Th of this
month again escaped and has been
missing until discovered by the Peoria
police living with the negroes.
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