The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-24
GOVERNMENT AF TER
THE WHITE SLAVERS
Two Alleged Members of Gang
Under Arrest; Girl Tells
Pififul Tale.

As n result OF A general crusade started
by the government TO bring to an end
tho workings OF an organized gang OF
white slave traders. Herbert Gould. %
years old and Mrs. May Brown. alias
Mrs, Gallard. IS years ole nave been
arrested by government officials and are
held In the county jail on charges oi
offenscs punishable by long terms In the
government penitentiary and by heavy
lines.
marshal. gives out the information that
The most atrocious cases of white siaN-
cry have been brought out In the search
OF the government for the members ol
girls into the underworld in Utah In the
last six months Marshal Anderson says
that If the facts were o known theEg re-, e0H.o ho
have been victimized by the gang OF
traders i'm the last half year. The ne
farlous vocation has been extended TO
Bountiful. Ogden Provo and many other
parts of the state, he says. and AT least
three Salt Lake girls have been victims.
The crime with which Gould and the
Brown woman are charged Is takins IN
Cora Frolm. n 16-ycar-old Salt Lake
City girl. from her home here and piac-
Ing her in a house in Pocateilo. Where
she spent several days too horrible to
describe.
The arrest OF Could and the woman
was made two weeks ago but nothing
has been made public because the gov
ernment officials expected To round up
other members OF the gang With dozens
OF secret service men working on the
| case. there undoubtedly Will be more
arrests within few days Among those
10 be taken are some characters VINO
have become prominent in the restricted
districts OF Salt Lake city.
Gould was given a preliminary hearing
| Thursday before Charles Baldwin. United
states commissioner. Judge Baldwin lost
no time in binding Gonld over TO await await
| jury. which meets in April lie placed
his bond at $1,000 which Gould was un-
able 10 furnish, ami was taken 10 the
| The preliminary hearing of the woman
Will be held this afternoon al O'Clock
before Judge Baldwin She Is in The
county jail. unable TO furnish $1,000
! bonds which was the sum fixed at the
time of her arrest,
The hearing Thursday brought out
! much damaging evidence. The story OF
The downfall of the girl was pltlful In
| the extreme. The girl says that prior
To Christmas she lived with her mother
on South Third West street and was
engaged in various kinds OF work. Early
| In December, she says. she went 20 an
auction store on Main street TO work 10
iy. While working at this store she
met Mrs. Brown. who came there and
worked several days.
The girl related the sad story of what
followed.
Later. the girl says Mrs. Brown per
| Suadcd her TO leave town and she con-
sented and went with Mrs. Brown. heI
| ticket being paid for by Mrs. Brown and
| It Is understood. being refunded TO the
| Brown woman by Gould. In Pocatclo
| the girl says. she was subjected TO un
spcaRa bio treatment
| After n couple Of days in Pocatcllo the
girl wrote to her mother In Salt Lake and
she reported the matter 10 the govern
| mont officials. at the instigation of Tho
police To whom Mrs. Frohm had report.
| cd the fact that the girl was missing,
Immediately the Eovemment officials
Including Hiram r.. Booth, United States
| district attorney. James H. Anderson
| United States marshal; Luclan II. Smyth
| chief deputy marshal: william McCrca
| assistant district attorney. and a mum
bcr of secret service men. got busy. The
| Erollm girl was brought back 10 Salt Lake
and Could and Mrs Brown were traced
| 10 this city. where they were arrested n