Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-30
v. c. 7. j. LEADER
ISSUES WARNING
Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis Tells
of white Slave" Traps Set
for Newark Girls.

Girls and young women should be
constantly on the watch for devices
of agents of the white-slave traffic, .
is the warning issued by Mrs. Mar
garet Dye Ellis national superin-
tendent of legislation of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. when
girl is on a shopping tour, on her
way to a friends house or anywhere
on the streets, unescorted, she cannot
be too careful. She must always be
on her guard, as the 'white-slavers'
are clever, far more clever than a
person not familiar with their tricks
would suspect"
This note of warning coming from
Mrs. Ellis is the result of eighteen
years careful study of the methods
employed by "white-slavers." Mrs.
Ellis is now at her home at 101 South
Tenth street, but will return to
Washington, d. c., shortly. where she
will take charge of the bills before
Congress of interest to women OF tho
country.
Through her constant study of the
subject, Mrs. Ellis is singularly
familiar with the wiles of white
slave traffickers. She cited the recent
of their cunning.
This young woman" Mrs. Ellis
said yesterday, went to New York
recently and stepped into a moving
picture place in the shopping district.
She had been watching the curtain
only a few minutes when she felt a
sharp pain in her neck, as though 1t
had been pricked with a pin.
"She looked around and saw behind
her a man and woman Of ordinary
appearance, seemingly intent upon
the pictures. She felt dizzy, and
made her way out of the place, and,
seeing a policeman nearby, she went
to him and asked him to take care OF
her. She was taken to the station
house, and the sergeant in charge, as
soon as he looked at her, recognized
the symptoms and said TITS an
other of those knockout cases"
1.-THE girls neck had been punctured
with a hypodermic needle containing
a strong opiate, and would have been,
without doubt, had not providence
interposed, been counted with the
numerous cases of girls who so mys-
teriously disappear and who are
forced into a slavery of horror"
Mrs. Ellis told of another Casa
Jersey City girl who went to New
York to shop with her mother.
This girl went to New York to
shop with her mother, and to econo-
mize on time they separated, each
to do some shopping downtown, but
they agreed to meet in an hour and
a half in a large department store
parlor. The daughter finished her err
rands first and having time to spare
looked in the window OF a store near
the one where she was to meet her
mother. AS the crowd gathered about
her she felt sharp pin prick IN her
arm, but paid no attention to it ex-
cept to rub the spot. She then went
to the store as agreed, but she had
no sooner taken a seat in the parlor
when SHE fell to the floor in a swoon.
The matron was called and the physi-
clan of the establishment was sum-
moned. The physician looked aat the
girl and said, "Oh. it's only case
of drunk; we will help her to a Win
dow and the air will probably re-
yive her."
"At this juncture a well-dressed
man came hurrying up as though
looking for someone, and seeing the
unconscious girl he said to the ma
iron: This is my WIFE She has these
drinking spells occasionally. | have
carriage at the door and I'll take
her home
"Providentially the mother, who
had been looking for her daughter,
pushed her way through the group
and saw the man about to take the
girl away. She sprang forward say
ing, That is my daughter. What are
YOU doing with her?' In the exclte-
ment of the moment the man fed and
could not be found. This girl too hao
been a victim of the hypodermic
needle.
ION an average of four girls a day
disappear in New York City. These
girls are either kidnapped or led astray
by the plausible story OF a Whlte
SLAYER" said Mrs. Ellis. Not long
ago the case of a high school girl
was brought TO my attention. rms
girl was on her way home from
school when she was stopped by a
negress who very sympathetically in
formed her that her (the girPs) dress
was torn and offered to pin 1t to-
gether for her. The girl went into
the doorway of the house where the
negress was standing and no sooner
had she stepped there when she was
oyerpowered and dragged inside. she
was reported missing, but the detec-
tiyes later found her and her captors
were sent to prison. These are cases
where the girls have escaped lie
of bondage. but how many are there
who are caught and forced to endure
the most abominable life imagi-
nable?"