Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-26
Awful Bondage Imposed Upon
Women in the Infamous
Stockade.
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.
Emissaries of Belle London Nainly
Endcavoring 10 stem the Tide
Following the News Expose.

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PEELED 10 sleep In the company
quarters for which she pays the vice
trust s. "a week These people when
they desire TO eat also purchase their
meals az the trust restaurant Their
beer and cigarettes are also furnished
by the trust at a price. They also
must purchase their dresses from the
trust
The women must pay spot cash for
everything or else deliver UP their key
and get out. once outside the stock
AIDE the police order them TO return
60 where they belong II Belle Lon
don win not take them back they are
arrested and thrown into Jail. Grace
Gilmore preferred suicide
The expose made by The News We'd
nesday evening OF the white slave traf-
ho that exists under police protection
az the Infamous stockade In this city.
caused a great running to and fro last
night and emissaries Of Belle London
we're kept on the jump In "a vain en-
deavor to stem the tide OF righteous
Indignation which is rapidly sweeping
over the city. The woman who holds
I'm bondage worse than that Of ar te-
bcllum days scores OF unfortunate
women, Is beginning 10 discern the
hand writing upon the wall indie
pendent Investigations have. been
started and that they will be prolific
in good results Is a certainty.
While the decent element I'm the city
first expressed horror at the vile con-
ditions existing and then elation that
at least preliminary steps have been
taken to correct the evil. the mac
quartauX and parasites who prey upon
the unfortunates after Miss Belle has
pluCkcd them we'll nigh bare are in a
state OF frenzied fear that the law viii
eventually reach out and clutch them
in q firm grasp.
The expose Of last evening does not
tell onc-half the story. The fact that
the women occupying nearly 100 cribs,
or stalls are forced 10 pay 10 Belle
$3.50 every morning and an additional
S. per week to sleep In the Fashion or
Washington roomlnghouse. does not
mean that they are then clean OF para
Sites There are the expenses Of main
taining their cribs. and IN one is cursed
with a follower he has 20 be furnished
with money. so that. no matter what
they DO they have no chance 10 leave
the city or 10 escape from the stock
ade
The herdng 81 the women takes
place in the day time when the "busi-
ness agents" Of Mrs. Dora Topham
drive the women 20 the office where
they pay over their money and get a
receipt for the same. The receipts are
signed Mrs. Lee. agent She Is a
sort OF bookkeepcr and general utility
woman FOR Miss Belle only last night
one Of the slave drivers from ogden
was imported to work at the salt Lake
stockade Sometimes he collects the
money himself. as he did In Ogden. and
then the bag fun Of money. the wages
of sin is dumped onto the desk In the
office"
HAD A BIGGER PULL
Those responsible for the horrible
system have succeeded in herdng
scores and scores Of women into the
stockade but they were not even then
satisfied They tried 10 induce by
nattering offers other women 10 go
there and when these attempts failed
resorted to threats backed by police
invasion. Even these failed as. for IN
stance. in the case Of the woman who
runs Che Grove. This property is con-
sidered valuable and Is owned by some
Of the most prominent men In salt
Lake city bringing In a revenue or
about 500 per month. Belle London
was unable 10 force the woman out Of
the Grove and into the stockade be
cause there was too much influence
and power behind the occupant But
once a woman gets into the stockade,
she NAV as well be confronted with the
warning. leave all hope. behind yo
who enter here"
MACQUEREAUN MENACE.
one of the very worst features OF the
cribs and, I'm fact. the whole system, Is
the constant menace OF the mac
cuereaux ANY night these human
parasites may be found lurking in and
about the Elite bar near the stockade.
some OF these creatures "own" women
In the cribs aud they exact their daily
toll, always OF course after Miss Belle
gets what's coming 10 her. They are
always on the lookout 10 herd other
women into the vortex Of iniquty.
II is known that the handsome
business agent Of Mrs. Topham
snooped about roominghouses and got "A
| list OF women. This list was taken 20
police headquarters and the exodus to
the slave pen began. Keepers Of room
| inghouses were warned. Women on the
| streets were quietly but firmly In
| formed that 20 days would be their
] portion II they did not migrate TO the
| stockade. or get out OF town.
STORY OF LANDLADy.
one instance will serve to illustrate
/ the workings Of the system, and The
| News is in possession OF the facts;
A widow woman from the country
| came here and purchased a roomlng
! house Al the time she took over the
property there were half "a dozen or
80 women OF the town living there.
| They attracted little or no attention.
/ Soon after the list went to police
| headquarters. policeman ment to the
/ widow and told her that unless the
| girls were Que Of the place by Mon
I day the house would be raided'
Where could the girls go? To the
stookade. Of course.
NO ARRESTS MADE
| Another feature is the fact that
| very seldom does anything leak out
! about a robbery at the stockade. That
| drunken men are robbed from time "a
| time there can be no doubt because, as
| one Of the girls said last Friday night
I'VE have TO beg, borrow and steal "a
| pay our rent" n a victim OF robbery
makes a howl" a business agent OF
Miss Belle loses no time In going "a
the crib and ordering the woman 10
remain IN the stan. Then Miss Belle on
one OF her assistants proceeds "a
! search the accused woman.
A short time ago a drunken man
claimed he had been robbed Of s.. The
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