The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-03-22
SLAYERS PROCURE
10000 GIRLS

NEW YORK, March 22.-Mrs. James
Lees Laidlaw, prominent suffrage
worker and wife of the banker, today
made public the fact that the young
and beautiful wife OF a prosperous
New York business man living In New
Jersey had been stolen from train on
which she was committing and carried
into white slavery by her captors.
Mrs. Laidlaw declared that this is
merely one instance out Of 1900 to
100 cases where girls and young
women of good family were stolen last
year from trains between New York
and Chicago by traffickers in white
slaves, and that upward of $4,000
American women are kidnapped in this
way every year.
In her home tonight Mrs. Laidlaw
told the details of the young wife's
abduction to a reporter. She said:
about eight months ago this young
woman-both wife and mother
was kidnapped by white slavers. But
because of the husbands foolish and
false conception Of the disgrace at
tached to the affair, he has always re-
fused to appeal to either newspapers
or police for help in finding her.
Fears to Know Details.
''He feels now that he would rather
die without knowing the horrible de-
tails of his wife's life in the hands OF
her kidnapers. He wants no word |
printed of the affair that would ena-
BILE his child's relatives or instructors
or friends in later life to tell anything
about the way the mother was stolen
and sold into life of terrible infamy.
Mrs. Laidlaw went on to tell how
he abduction was managed The hus-
oand had asked his wife to meet him
n the city one evening to go to the
heatre. She was not at the terminate
when he arrived there, but he learned
"
rom the conductor that she had been I
board the regular train; that two men
# foreign appearance had boarded the {
rain at the same station. These men {
ad seated themselves Immediately be-
ind her. They had insisted upon pay
ng her fare despite her protests, as
uring the conductor the woman was .
OF rational and was in their custody ,
When the train reached the terminal
here the husband should have been
e had been delayed and was not there
nd the conductor saw the two men
urrying the woman away and that
as the last seen of her. Whether she
as too frightened to make an outcry
r had been beguiled into temporary
,uuiescence by clever story, neither
IL conductor nor the husband knows.
Stolen From FerrybOat.
''Not long ago a woman was stolen
| a ferryboat between New York and
ew Jersey in much the same manner
this young New Jersey wife," said
rs. Laidlaw, land only because she
as able to escape after four weeks of
gradation have her friends ever
armed what became of her.
"a Rochester girl who was kidnapped
tween her home and Buffalo fell into
e hands of the Probation Society
re one day after she had been ar
sted for street walking. After her
alth had been restored she was re-
rned to the home she had never ex-
cted to see and had never explained
e word as to the cause of her dis
pearance.
And now to right these conditions,
at? The minimum wage scale? Not
ogether adjustment of that sort Be-
Use many fallen women have been
len from their homes and forced to
) in disorderly resorts until their
SEES are so dulled that they have
all sense of where they came from
where they would again be received.
Before these terrible evils can be
ledied the cities civic corruption
st be remedied.
The facts surrounding white slav-
and the way in which $4,000 Ameri-
women year are deliberately sac
led to it are more lurid and sensa-
al than the most lurid, over
ught imagination could conjure."
LIEF OF MOTHER