Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-09
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
listers by detectives for the identifica-
ton OF notorious men and women ad-
ded the latest sensation in the vice
investigation instituted following the
startling 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 viii 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 ami
the name of every person noted as to
character and general reputation.
Get Evidences 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 lnforma-
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 q
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 Begs to Go Home.
81 want to go back home" said the
girl between her sobs. viii 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 lesson from her own har-
rowing experience, she has issued a
warning to young girls to beware Of
the women procurers, who. she say
ply the streets with pleasant smiles
and entice girls to we'll known hoteIs
of the downtown district where the
system" is so completely organized
that there is never a chance OF detec-
ton or 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.
The woman procurer who took M,
in charge-and she is just ike scores
of others who walk the streets every
day-met me Thursday in a soft drink
stand at the corner Of Jones and Cone
Streets. | told her that l didn't want
TO go home again, and she replied thai
she would get me a nice room in the
Cumberland Hotel. where / would not
be bothered.
Il will give you a new name, too
said the woman. I will call you Lu
Gle Evans. Now, isn't that a nice
Nance
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;
1t was so easy, you know-nothing
to do but get fixed"
The proprietor OF the Cumberland
Hotel denies that ne has had any
knowledge of his hotel being used
for immoral purposes He states that
Hattie Smith, the girl arrested at
the place Sunday night, where she
was registered under the name Of Lu-
cile Evans, was arrested at the insti
CATION of her father. p