The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-29
\ j MAN LE c He s
TRADE IN SOULS
OF WOMEN
Methods of White Slave Traficker
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.

While occasional cases of White
Slave" traflcking come to the notice
Of the Detroit police and courts, as in
the Levine case, recently aired In
police court, Detroit Is not overrun
with these cases. thanks to 2 constant
vigilance over the resorts or the red
light district. which makes 1t an ex
tremely nard proposition tor the traf-
ficiers.
But there have been several cases,
and one, In particular. shows the
methods used by the human leeches,
who trade in the souls of women,
mostly young immigrant girls.
In a st. Antoine st. resort is q
pretty, dark-eyed girl, % years old.
Her pitiful story Is sharp illustration
of the White Slave traffic. Her name
is Lillian Bull. she was a school girl
in Chicago, IA years old, and living
with her parents when she first met
Morris Siegel, several years older
than she, and wise In the ways OF the
world Siegel induced the girl TO live
with him and after her baby was born
told her OF a shameful way in which
she could support herself and her
child. He took her to Milwaukee, and
arranged for her to enter a resort. He
kept the baby, and 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
10 care. Occasionally Siegel visited
Lillian in the resort, and bled more
money from her. Finally, she learned
that her baby was being neglected,
end she left the resort in Milwaukee
and went to Chicago. All this time
Siegel was taking all of her money.
She begged him TO give her the baby,
but he held 1t as the hostage for his
own support from the girl.
Lillian came to Detroit. Here she
was advised to send for her baby, and
to turn Slegel over 10 the police II 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
befriended her, and when Siegel came
for his regular allowance OF money,
she told MIN she was through with
him, He went 70 work In an automo-
Dlle IdClDIy, NAlC HASN WIN hS LOU
done, she says II was all that saved
him from the Detroit police.
But he didn't like the idea of earn
ing his living. One night he called az
the resort where Lillian was living
her life Of shame, and threatened u
kill her IL 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.
Il think | am doing what Is right.
she says. II love my little child. It's
year and ii months old, now. take
good care Of IT,"
But when mention was made OF heI
felix's at home. tears welled up In her
eyes.
81 have no mother. My father is n
coed, honest man. He doesn't know
where l am or what / am doing" she
said. And he must never know"