Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-08
POLICE HUNT.
PRINCIPALS
IN EXPOSE
Search Records of Guests for the
Leaders of System Named
by Girl Victim.

A general rounding up of hotel reg
tsters by detectives for the identifica-
ton of notorious men and women ad-
ied the latest sensation in the vice
investigation instituted following the
.tartling disclosures Of Hattie Smith,
the pretty 17-year- old girl. who claims
to be the victim Of the system"
The first move was made Tuesday
morning when the manager of the
cumberland Hotel was subpenaed to
appear in Police Court with his regis
ter that afternoon. The register will
be examined by the Smith girl to
identify the names of men and women
who, she claims. frequent the hotel.
Detectives say they will examine
every hotel register figuring in this
latest expose to identify the names of
parties involved. In each case the
register will be searched carefully and
the name of every person noted as to
character and general reputation.
Get Evidence for Court.
Such evidence as may be found will
be presented before Recorder
Broyles, together with the cases
which are made out against hotel
managers and other parties
Two other cases in connection with
the investigation into the Cumberland
Hotel scandal will be made out Tues
day afternoon, according to informa-
ton at police headquarters.
The Smith girl has not only laid
bare to the police every detail of the
System" but she has told the whole
story of her own misfortune.
Tuesday morning she was visited
by her father, to whom she told every
thing-how she, dissatisfied, left home
last Wednesday; how she went to a
downtown hotel; how next day she
met the alleged woman procurer, who
enticed her to the Hotel Cumberland,
she says, and all that followed. Then
the girl broke down and cried.
Girl Bess to Go Home.
Il want to go back home" said the
girl between her sobs. will you
take me back?" to which the father
nodded an eager assent.
The Smith girl repeated her story
with many additional details of the
system" which is said to be the most
completely organized in the history o.
Atlanta
Taking a lesson from her own har-
rowing experience, she has issued
warning to young girls to beware of
the women procurers, who, she says,
ply the streets with pleasant smiles
and entice girls to well-known hotels
of the downtown district, where the
system" is so completely organized
that there Is never a chance of detec-
ton OF escape for the unfortunate vic
tim.
No Chance to Escape.
1T is terrible" the Smith girl told
Chief Beavers. "You should have
your men turn their attention to the
downtown hotels, where the system
is organized so completely that there
is no chance of turning away from
wrong. once a girl gets there.
1.-The woman procurer who took m.
in charge-and she is just like scores
of others who walk the streets every
day-met me Thursday in a soft drink
stand at the corner of Jones and Gone
Streets. l told her that didn't want
to go home again. and she replied thai
she would get me a nice room in the
Cumberland Hotel, where I would not
be bothered.
AZ will give you a new name, too,
said the woman. will call you Lu-
Gle Evans. Now, isn't that nice
name"
THE woman also suggested that
she go and register for me- as the
appearance Of two women would ex-
cite suspicion. To all of this agreed;
it was so easy, you know-nothing
to do but get fixed"