Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-30
The Suppression of this Evil is Subject Of the
GreSteSt Importance
THE LAW NEEDS TO BE attended
And Strengthened in More than One Important Respect
Congress Should Give Some ime to this Subject
and Allow Revision of the Tariff to Go Over for
While-New England Cases Without Number

or &C a prostitute to again return to
The United States, and the alien to be
deported at the expiration of imprls-
oment.
No Punishment is Too Severe.
at is highly necessary that this dia-
bolical traffic which has attained in
ternational proportions, should be
dealt with in a manner adequate TO
compass its suppression. No punish
ment is too severe to infiict upon the
procurers in this vile traffic"
Two Examples of the Evil.
On October 13. 1908, Grace Sinclare
and Ida Drury, brothel keepers IN
Washington, D. c.. were convicted Of
harboring Anna Lonergan and Annie
Gorelien, and were fined $3.50 and a
term of six months imprisonment each.
These girls were spirited away from
the immigration officials in Baltimore.
were trailed to this city and to the
houses of the defendants, were rescued
and sent to their homes.
In Chicago, Harry Lair and his wife
will soon be placed on trial before Fed
eral Judge Landis, charged with i'm
porting a 14-year- old French girl for
immoral purposes. It is stated by Off
cials who made the investigation that
Lair and his partners, Alphonse and
Eva DufoUr, cleared during the year
1907 s2O7, 600 in this traffic The Du
fours are now confined in a French
prison for importing a young Ameri-
can girl to Paris for the same in
famous purpose, when they fed from
this country, after being indicted by
the federal grand jury in Chicago.
Notwithstanding the severity of law
and the vigilance Of the officials, the
fact remains that hundreds of young
girls who enter this country from
abroad hoping to better their eondi-
tion by honest employment, are spirit
ed awsw from the landing places in
the ports of entry to houses of ill-fame,
under the impression that they are to
be given honest work to do.
One of the Worst Cases Ever Brought
to Attention of Officials.
One OF the worst examples of the
white slave traffic ever brought to the
attention of the immigration officials
was the case Of Teresina Cazzaline, a
young Italian girl from Naples, who
left her, home to come to this country
to meet her lover, who wrote her that
he could not leave his business in New
York to come to her. When she reach
ed New York she was met In the ship
by her lover, who managed to elude
the immigration officials and smuggled
her on shore. The lover seems to have
been bad lot and to have associated
himself with another as bad as him
self, for no sooner had the pair reach
ed the shore. when they were met by
this other man, and all went to a house
in the Italian section of the city, and
she was placed in q room with barred
windows and her clothing forcibly TAX
en- from her. The false lover and his
partner held her in New York, subject
ing her to any vile thing that was will
ing to pay the price until she became
so troublesome that it was decided to
remove her TO Philadelphia. This was
accomplished with the aid Of a covered
wagon and a loaded revolver pressed
against her side during the whole time
of transit from city to city Here she
was placed in another barred room
and, as in New York, subjected to the
visits OF vile men. She was finally
visited by a man from her own section
of Italy who knew her family and he
promised to aid her. That same night
he removed her through the window,
the bars of which ha had cut away.
and turned her over to the inanigra-
tion officials at philadelphia. The offi-
GERS held her several days, hoping to
capture her kidnappers, but without
success.
New England Cases Without Number.
The cases mentioned are all interna-
tional cases, while the cases of native
girls enticed from their home in New
England could be cited without num-
ber. With these the officials here have
to do
More Legislation Really Needed.
After O. time spent with the officials
of the immigration bureau looking in
to this matter, one is brought to believe
that the man that wrote Senator
Bulkeley, asking for more legislation
was not go far wrong, after all.