The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-12
SAVE THE GIRLS.
White Slaves Bought and Sold on New
York Market.

The New York World says white
slavery in that city was shown to
be a real, hideous fact in the last
few days. The following p-nu1 of
the above we take from the World !:
After three months of careful
planning by District Attorney Whit
man and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
| foreman of a grand jury now in ses-
sion, four girls were bought in New
York by an Assistant District-Attor-
ney and two courageous women,
! graduates of Smith and Radcliffe
Colleges, who had worked with the
Rockefeller grand jury on the cases.
The girls were purchased in the
open market. The District-Attor-
ney has the receipts for the money
paid for them. They were sold with
a direct understanding that they
were to be carried to Alaska for i'm
moral purposes. They were sold as
slaves, without any reservation, &C
cording to the evidence in the pos
session of the District-Attorney.
Each of the girls gave her age
officially as sixteen and seventeen
years old. One girl when found by
the authorities cried bitterly for a
half hour because she had been TAX
en- 80 quickly from a home of vice
that she did not bring her doll.
Another little girl cried equally hard
for her Teddy bear.
Three arrests have already been
made in the cases and other arrests
are predicted by the District-Attor-
ney within ashort time. The first
was that of Harry Leyenson, 27
years old, living at No. 16 East 3rd
street. The District-Attorney charges
that through the agency Of Assistant
District Attorney James B. Rey-
nolds, and the two college women,
two girls were purchased from him.
The second arrest was that Of
Belle Moore, a negress, living at No.
'34S West Forty-frst streets The
District Attorney charges that two
white girls were purchased from her
last week by the same agents. In
connection with the woman's ar
rest the District Attorney stated that
not one-quarter of the facts could
be made public at this issue.
Later in the evening Alex Ander-
son, who is employed in the Union
Cafe, in Broadway near Fortieth
street, and which is said by the Off
cials to be under the management OF
George Considine, was arrested. The
officials admitted that warrants are
out for several other persons, but
said they did not expect any more
arrests before morning.
While the arrests were being made
the police were searching all the
hospitals in the city for an eleven
year old girl, who had been bar
gained for and who, it is declared,
would have been sold but for the
fact that she became 50 i'll because
of mistreatment in an immoral re-
sort that she had to be sent to
hospital. There is reason to be-
lieve that the girl has been found
and will tell her story later, but
her whereabouts are being kept Sc
cret.
The investigation was made by the
grand jury and Mr.. Rockefeller, who
each devoted a large sum of money
to the search for the root of the
white slave trade. It was found
for them by two young college wo-
men who had devoted themselves to
the interests of their distressed sis
ters. They went to Alaska, where
the traffic is fierce, and there got &C
quainted with the under world and
with the people who trafficed in de-
bauchery.
They got in touch with their cor
respondents in all parts of the coun-
try, and finally got letters to parties
in New York, the state for which
they were working. They returned
home, took the district attorneys Of
flee into their confidence, and with
member of the grand jury nailed
the trafficers beyond question, as re-
ported above.
They found that formerly white
girls could be bought for SIS to
$50, but the activity of the grand
juries all over the country had
made the price of these articles of
commerce rise, 50 that the dealers
claimed 5000 for the great risk that
they ran.
They found also that little white
girls were brought and sold for de-
bauchery to white men or negroes.