The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-13
LURES GIRLS TO
RUIN; Gets YEAR
Jack Lane, Who Trapped Victims by
Fake Theatrical Agency, Convicted
In Three Minutes.


who by means OF running fake the
atrical booking agency, lured at least
two young girls from their homes TO
ruin, was convicted before Judge
Phelan, Saturday afternoon, and the
court lost no time in sending Lane to
the House of Correction for the limit
provided by the law, one year.
The court subjected Lane to a severe
castigation, when the fellow stood up
to receive sentence. Lane declared he
would marry Louise Toegel, one OF his
child victims, IL the court would parole
him and the girls mother wrote let
ter to the court. saying she was will
ing that Lane should marry her daugh-
ter and be paroled.
She might as well have saved her
paper and ink" said Judge Phelan.
THE place for that girl is In some
institution. The place for Lane Is
behind prison bars and that's where
I'm going to send him. He'll get no
parole from me-
I'D like TO have just one chance,
judge" said Lane, as he stood up In
the prisoners box.
This Is a very common offense,'
replied the court Undoubtedly, there
are many such, but 1t Is some time
since such a case has come into nv
court. am sorry for these girls. II
seems to me that even when theatrical
agencies are legitimate enterprises, II
Is wrong for them TO take girls IA oil
15 years old and subject them to the
temptations OF stage life.
but add to that your crime. What
words are there TO express the con.
tempt in which decent living men hold
you Your deed was a dastardly one,
and I cannot see how you can stand
/ before me and looking me in the face,
ask me for mercy I pity your girl
victims from the bottom of my heart,
but, how low they have fallen, how
depraved they have become through
you. Who Is to answer for their fu-
ture conduct? The stain is on your
hands.
Justice may have been tardy in
your case. but you see that II Is event
ually doing it's work. Capt McDon-
nell and his officers are doing a good
work in rounding up such fellows as
you. | hope he gets more OF your
kind"
The jury was out just three minutes
before 1t brought in verdict OF
guilty.
Louise Toegel and Josephine Levine,
the girl victims of Lane, told their
stories much as they had been told in
the lower court. Lane entered no de-
fense. except to say that the Toegel
girl was living with him as his wife.
On the same charge on which Lane
was sentenced. Mrs. Frances Bealby
was ,arraigned before Police Justice
Stein, Saturday morning. The woman
was arrested with George Rustin, aft
er the unfolding OF revolving story
In Judge Murfin's branch OF the cir
cult court, during the woman's attempt
to recover her two little girls from
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children.
We'll | suppose I am guilty said
Mrs Bealby, in an Indifferent manner.
The court took her plea and ad.
journed the case until Tuesday morn
ing.
Phelan said in part
The law recognizes what is
termed common law marriages,
but they must be marriages In
fact. where the man and woman
are bound to all obligations, both
rs TO person and property, the
same that follows the marital
state or relation The only testi-
mony In this case is that OF the
girl, Louise Toegel, who claims
that she was introduced by the
defendants name, and her state
ment is not I'm any way corrobor-
ated. excepting that she occupied
with the defendant her apart
ments for a time and that she
went by his name. Does this con-
stitute legal marriage? In case
of his death would she have a
claim as his wife against his prop
erty? Would you. under the cir
cumstances. say she was his legal
wife, having all the claims OF a
wife against him and his proper
ty? II not. they are not In law
husband and wife. and the objec-
tion OF the defense to the Toegel
girls testimony Is not good I'm