The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-29
H u IMAM LEECHE S
TRADE IN SOULS
OF WOMEN
Methods Of White Slave Trafficker
Laid Bare in Experience of Girl
Lured To Life Of Shame When
Child of IA.
Vampire Bleeds Her for Money Till
Police Drive Him From City-0nly
OCCASIONAL Cases Here.

n While occasional cases of White
lSlave' traflcking come to the notice
Sof the Detroit police and courts, as IN
the Levine case. recently aired IN
tNolice court, Detroit Is not Overrun
with these cases, thanks to a constant
vigilance over the resorts Of the red
Night district, which make It an ex-
Ibremely hard proposition for the traf-
kIlckers.
hut there have been several cases,
and one. I'm particular shows the
nnethods used by the human leeches.
hwho trade In the souls of women,
'tnlostly young immigrant girls.
In St Antoine-st resort is a
kpretty. dark-eyed girl, % years old.
|fiier pitiful story Is sharp Illustration
|,pf the White Slave traffic. Her name
us Lillian Bull. She was a school girl
I'm Chicago. Ia years old, and living
with her parents when she first met
morris Siegel. several years older
han she. and wise in the ways OF the
Cworld. Sicgel induced the girl to live
with him and after her baby was bonn
|rold her OF a shameful way in which
she could support herself and her
child. He took her TO Milwaukee, and
Larranged for her TO enter resort. lie
|kept the baby. ind each week she sent
him between $40 and SIS. she says.
Siegel never worked. He kept the
money which Lillian sent to him. and
lived on that The baby had little or
|Io care. Occasionally Siegel visited
Lillian in the resort and bled more
money from her. Finally. she learned
e that her baby was neing neglected,
end she left the resort in Milwaukee
and went TO Chicago. All OF this time,
rSiegel was taking all of her money.
She begged MIN to give her the baby.
but he held il as the hostage for his
kown support from the girl
Lillian came to Detroit Here she
Twas advised TO send for her baby. aud
Ito turn Siegel over &c the police If he
Troubled her She was forced to send
|Siegel a railroad ticket, to bring him
here with the baby. She took the
child TO the home Of a woman who
Eefriended her, and when Siegel came
Tor his regular allowance of money,
|she told MIN she was through. with
him. He went 20 work In an automo-
lille factory. the first work he had
done. she says. II was all that saved
Ilim from the Detroit police.
But ne didn't like the idea OF earn
ing his living. One night he called a.
Ithe resort where Lillian was living
her life Of shame. and threatened 10
kill her II she didn't turn the baby
over to him again. The keeper of the
place called Detectives Wilson and
Black, who keep constant vigil over
the red light district. and Siegel was
arrested. But he proved that he was
working, and the courts couldn't
touch him. He was ordered out OF
town, and went back TO Chicago.
Meanwhile, the pretty, dark-eyed
little girl Is living the only life that
she feels Is open TO her, now.
II think / am doing what is right,
she says. II love my little child. It's
o year and IL months old, now. | take
good care of it,
But when mention was made OF her
felix's at home, tears welled up In her
eyes.
81 have no mother. My father Is II
GOOD. honest man. He doesn't know
where | am or what | am doing" she
said. And he must never know"