The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-11
Federal Inquisitors Have Many
Important Gases for
Consideration.
''WHITE SLAVE" TRAFFIC
TO BE GIVEN PROBING
Members of Petit Jury Also
Sworn in and Ready for
Service.

With about thirty cases TO consider
the federal grand jury went INTO session
probing OF government criminal cases
ior fuzzy two weeks. In point OF length.
The present session promises TO break all
records for semi annual Juricss
The jurors all reported at the court
at 10 o'clock. and were eXamined BY
Judge Marshall and United States DIS
jurors were excused from service and
the others were sworn i'll. After receiN-
ing instructions, the jurors retired TO
the grand jury rooms where the cases
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ioremanl; George s. .,;Ash Ashton " SAT- Lab1; Wsi
lace Salt Lake: T, NJ. Kixon, Coalvtlle, f,
J Ii Spargo. Ogden; John r. Glynn. Salt
Lake; NJ. $; Browning, Ogden; J. r, Nc
Heber, l.. :. Haywood. Layton; William
Kidd. Logan. j. II. Rives. Salt Lake;
Thomas Burns. Salt Lake; j. 5. Carver,
Ogden; w. w. Francis. Morgan: John
Porter. Ccntervillc; j. 3. Seeley, Mt
Pleasant.
The cases to be considered include
violations OF the Indian liquor laws. the
retail license laws for selling liquor,
counterfeiting. stealing property from In
diaps and the like.
Most Important Gases.
The most important cases TO be. con-
sidered are those of violations Of the
white slave traffic act, which was
passed by congress a year ago. and
which will be given a trial before the
present jury here for the first time.
The new law makes it unlawful for any
person 10 pay the fare of "a woman from
one state to another for immoral pur-
poses. This has made il possible for
the government to break up alleged
gangs OF swhite slave" traders who have
recent. years. There are five persons In
jail charged with having violated the
'whte slave" traffic act all OF whom
viii be given hearing by the grand
jury. III the charges against them are
substantial the grand jury Will return
indictments.
The first of the white slave" cases
went before the jury soon after the con-
venins Monday morning. Agnes Nelson.
alleged victim 6f William Siegel, an in
mate Of the county jail. was taken before
serious situation: She admits that She
is in love with Siegel and does not want
10 sec him sent to jail, Originally. be-
fore she knew what the government
how he paid her railroad fare from Den
yer 10 Salt Lake. When she learned
that that was all the government had TO
prove TO be able TO send Siesel TO the
federal prison for at least five years.
She changed her story and claimed TO
have paid the fare herself
Deportation Threatened.
Believing that her second story is un
true and that she was telling the truth
In her first story. which was sworn TO.
The immigration officers have threatened
to deport her from the country. II she
tells the first story, Siegel will go tn
Leavenworth. In all probab bility, and II
she sticks TO her second story she will
he deported 10 her home in Denmark by
the immigration department. She is 81
foreign woman, and now occupies
place in the underworld which makes
her deportation possible,
Others charged with violation of the
white slave traffic act are James
O'Keefe and Ross Morrison, charged with
Turing Irene Hobbs and Flora Chandler
out Of the state for immoral purposes;
Herbert Gould and May Brown, charged
with having committed the same Of
Tense with l6-year-o Cora Frohm OF
Salt Lake.
The grand jury sessions are executive.
aud nothing is given out regarding the
proceedings behind the locked doors.
The petit jury also met Monday morn
Ing to take UP the work of the April
term. These jurors have Il long list Of
cases 10 consider. The cases for Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday, however.
have been dismissed. and the court
therefore adjourned until Thursday
morning, when the case OF Zhon-ne. the
Indian murderer. will be disposed of.