The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-24
GIRLS TELL THE
TRAFFIC STORY
Upheaval in Pittsburg Is shak.
ing the Disreputable Trade
in White Slaves

IltI6DuTS, OCt. I4.-nAl0S upon
white slave operatives in New York
and upon scores of men in this city
are expected to result from state
ments by six women today to Police
Inspector Lawrence BARLEY. Two
more persons were held for the feder.
al grand jury on charges Of violating
the national white slave law, and
three more suspects were arrested BY
detectives. T.
Alarmed by the rush Of victims Of
the white slave system to confess,
men profiting by the system are keep.
ing close watch upon the movements
Of police instrumental in the present
expose. While Inspector BARLEY was
examining the women today q
man, suspected of being one of those
the police are trying to fasten evil
dence on watched in Sixth avenue
outside the public safety building for
almost three hours and tried to com.
municate with the witnesses. Others
have fed from the city.
Special Agent H. NJ. O'Bleness OF
the department of Justice has been
shadowed almost constantly by deni-
zens Of the underworld, and dozens
of them have been taken by their bet
ter informed fellow workers to ad-
vantageous viewpoints to see O'Blen-
ess that they may know him when he
begins operations against them.
Women Give Evidence.
The statements taken today by In
spector BARLEY were Transcribed by q
stenographer and were then signed by
the women. This evidence Is only q
small part Of that which has been
secured by the police department and
the department Of justice. Names Of
white slave operatives and Of men
who are living upon the earnings Of
women who have been here for years
have been secured by the dozens and
evidence against them has been Sc
cured and is being verified.
Since the white slave crusade hal
been under way there has been doubt
in the underworld as to where it will
end. Until the arrest Of Frank Ross
of Youngstown and Frank C. Will
Jams here the underworld thought it.
self safe because of the money II
controls and the petty political in
terests bound up in it. But since
then the doubtful ones have been
frightened and scores Of them are
leaving the city.
That hard fight will be put up
against those conducting the cam
paign was shown today at the
hearing of Anna Hull and Frank C.
Williams before United States Com
missioner William T. Lindsey. Anna
Hull is proprietress Of resort at
43S Second avenue. She and Lindsey
were arrested several days ago charg-
ed with bringing to the resort two
young Steubenville girls.
United States Attorney John H
Jordan took up the case following the
arrests by Inspector BARLEY and q
report on the matter by Special Agent
O'Bleness, and he conducted the hear
ing for the government.
The first witness, Della Brock, de.
clared she had been living at Anna
Hull's house. since August 8. She
said she had been brought here from
Steubenville with Pearl Cunningham
by Williams after the Hull woman had
tried for years to get her to enter the
Second avenue resort.
She said she first met Williams at
q picnic at Rock Springs last July 4
and from there went to Steubenvilll
and later to Wellsberg, w. Va, will
hiuh.
Besides herself, Williams and Pear