Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-31
FIRST CASE UNDER
 WHITE SLAVE ACT"
 SHOWSLAW'S REACH
Is Wide Application Makes the Underworld Tremble
 With Fear
DOUGLAS WOMAN IS HELD

The possibilities of the new fed oral white slave traffic act" approy ed June 2S. 1910, was illustrated in the case Of the United States against Pauline Wells. heard at Doug as Wednesday before United States Commissioner Albert NJ. Sames, and rioseieuted by United States Attor ney J. E. Morrison of this city. At the termination of the hearing, Com missioner Sames bound the woman over to the federal grand jury in the sum Of $500.
 The governments case was substan tially as fellows. That Pauline Wells. pIoprietTess of a house in the Dougia.s teneerloin. went to Tucson in January and induced a women named Belle Smith, then a prosi ute in Tucson. to go to Douglas and reside al the hoase of Pauline Wells and that Pauline Wells purchased a
 ket at Tucson for the transporta ton of Belle Smith to Douglas.
 Law IS Bread.
 The case was the first one brought in this section of the territory un der the white slave traffic act as approved in June. 1910 which am pllfies and gees ilther than the old law The law is capable of 2 broad construction and the United States attorney in an interview intim ated that it might be well that the new law be thoroughly understood.
 The government had a two fold object in bringing the prosecution ,ainst the Douglas woman Out side of the moral prpitude of the woman, the case presented aspects which serve to illustrate the work irgs of the law and oircumtances on which prosecutions may be based. The penalty for violation of this law is an extremely heavy one, pro yiding fine of not more than s5,0oe or imprisonment for a term of not more than five years. either or both at the discretion of the court
 Case in Point.
 To get down to cases, under the law as amended, it would be viola ton of tne law for any person of Low ell to furnish ear fare. five cents to a woman of the city of Bisbee for the purpose of bringing such person 10 Lowell fo. immoral purposes.
 The case against the Douglas wo man was brought under section ? of the white slave traffic act" which in part reads as follows:
 That any person who shall know ingly transport or cause to be trans ported or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for or in transporting in interstate or foreign commerce or in any territcry. or in the District of Colun bia any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or dehauch cry or for any other immoral purpose or with the intent and purpose to in Guce, entice or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or to give herself up to debauchery or to engage in any other immoral prac iice. and who shall knowingly pro cure or obtain or cause to be pro cured or obtained or to aid and as sist in procuring or obtaining any ticket or tickets or any form of trans po1tation or evidence of the right thereto to be used by any woman or girl in intersTate or foreign com merce or in any territory or in Dis tTict Of Columbia, in going to any u'ace for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery or for any other i'm moral purpose or with the intent or purpose on the part of such person induce, eptice, or compel her to give herself up to deha"ohH-v er anv
 her immoral practice whereby any such woman or girl shan te trans rorted in interstate or foreign com merce or in any territory or in the District of Columbia, shall be deem ei guilty of felony and upon con viction thereof shall be r::ss.... r:-.ss:-:.- l..s fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or by imprisop ment of not more thsn five years. or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the cou,t"
 "Intsnt" Makes Violation.
 IL iS the phase in any territory which gives the law effect and parti eular application to Arizona, congress having a right to legislate for the ter ritories. According to the section of the law it matters not whether either or both of the persons. as was fhe case in the Douglas case Wednes cay. are prostitutes. An intent or purposo- to induce entice or com pei" woman or girl to give herself up to immoral purposes under such conditions constitutes a violation Of this law
 The law goes even further in Sec ton {, which states that any per son who shall knowingly persuade or induce any woman or girl to go from one place to another. in any terri