The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-09-20
HARTFORD, KY. WEDNESDAY,. SEPTEMBER 90 1911.

she did not know that the woman
was of questionable character.
About three weeks ago, she said,
she received letter from the Law
renee woman requesting that she
send a girl to Tampa to accept en-
ployment as a housemaid. She said
that when the strange girl appear
ed at the box office of the theater,
she gave her the Lawrence woman's
letter.
she went away without telling
me her name" she added. 81 do
not know whether she wrote to Ma
rian Lawrence or not, or whether
she went to Tampa, or whether she
is the woman who is now in trouble.
Further, | do not know how the
woman in Tampa came to know my
name. Marian Lawrence may have
told her. Anybody may have told
her my name"
A half-hour or so after making
this statement the Shelley woman
admitted in the presence of Irwin
Simons, manager of the Casino
Theater, that she made the ac-
quaintance of the strange girl-the
girl she at first said she met at the
box office-through a Mrs. Mary
Ragsdale. The latter, she said. had
been employed at The Seelbach. 1t
was her understanding, she said,
that the strange girl had worked at
the hotel
Inquiry at The Seelbach failed to
reveal any information about the
girl or the present whereabouts of
Mrs. Ragsdale. 1t was said that the
latter had worked at the hotel, but
no one had any knowledge of the
girl.
At the Shelley apartment this
morning at 1880 O'Clock a woman
who said she was Miss Shelley's
mother said:
my daughter feels the disgrace
keenly and she left the. city tonight
after the show"
She made this statement when
told that the white slave victim in
Tampa had declared to the police
that Miss Shelley had furnished her
with transportation to the South.
The woman insisted that she did
not know where Miss Shelley had
gone.
Woman's Arrest Asked.
The Courier-Journal of Monday
says:
Telegraph advices early this
morning that the Mayor and chief
of police of Tampa had demanded
the immediate arrest of Edna Shell
ley, of 32S West Jefferson street,
cashier at a motion picture theater,
followed hard upon the heels of the
news that the girl, who alleges she
had been held in white slavery in
the Florida town, had been identi-
fed as Miss Pearl Snyder, of Harm
ed, Breckenridge county, KY. The
Tampa officials called upon United
States District Attorney Cheney, OF
Orlando, Fla, to take steps to have
the Louisville woman taken. into
custody. The latter is charged by
Miss Snyder with having furnished
her transportation to Tampa and
sending her to a house of i'll fame
under false pretenses.
The home of Miss Edna Shelley
who was accused by the Snyder CIR
,of furnishing her transportation
and directing her to the resort o.
the Lawrence woman in Tampa
was closed to newspaper men yes
terday. The report given out at the
home of Miss Shelley Saturda!
night that the young woman had
left the city was contradicted b.
several acquaintance Of Miss Shell
ley. They asserted that she is still
at home, and though she feels keen
" the notoriety the case has giver
her, has no intention OF leaving
town.
The penalty in cases of conviction
for white-slave dealing is not les
than five years in a Federal prison
This applies to all agents in the in
terstate transportation of girls OF
women to engage in immoral pur
suits.
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