The evening world., 1913-10-31
DETECTIVES RAID
!! FLAT AND RESCUE
SLAvER'S VICTIM
Fourteen.Year-Old Girl Found
Dressed in Blanket in
Harlem House.
YOUTH IS ARRESTED.
Real Ahductor, However, Es-
capes Police When Door
Is Battered Down.
YOUTH IS ARRESTED

A. the feet OF a man passing through
One Hundred and Forty-fourth street
between Seventh and Eighth avenues
last night there Huttered a piece o.
paper which he stopped to pick up.
Then he ran to the Lenox avenue police
station. The note read In substance:
please get me out of here"
II was signed Josephine McLaugh
lin" Police Headquarters was notified
TO learn II such girl were missing
from home and acting Capt Jones. in
charge OF detectives at the East sixty
seventn street station. recalled that
eight or nine days ago Mrs. Margaret
Mclaughlin OF No. s3A First avenue had
asked him to look for her daughter
Josephine. fourteen years Old. who had
zone to "A dance the night before and
had not returned.
Detectives Hsuser and Culhane went
TO No. 20 West one Hundred and For
ty-fourth street this morning and
learned that two young men and two
girls had a fla, on the fourth nocr.
They ascended the stairs. and putting
\heir shoulders against the door.
smashed 1t down. fearing to ring the
bell. lest some Of the inmates OF the
fiat escape D, the FIRE escape.
FOUND GIRL WITH A BLANKET
FOR cREss.
In the front room they found a
pretty girl OF about seventeen clad IN
a kimcna. She seemed not at all sur
prised a. the appearance o: the deter-
tit.as nj
tried to 1ues,lon her Finally. however.
she admitted there was another girl
IN the house and In a bed In the
next room the detectives found litilc
Josephine Mclaughlin. All her clothes
had been taken away from her and SIZE
was rolled up In some blankets She
was crying hys;erlca'ly.
The girl declared that one Of the two
men who hired the Hat was In the
place. and the detectives hunted
through all the rooms before they
found a slender youth hiding beneath
the washtubs in the Li:chen. lie had
pulled big box In front Of him to
help conceal him. The detectives
yanked him out. and after they had
found Joseph!ne's clothes and given
her time to dress they took the three
tion.
There Capt. Jones recognized tho
elder girl as Ei!zabe Clark. seventeen
years old, whose father. Patrick. oi
No. 1885 Second avenue, had reported
her missing on the same night tina.
Mrs. McLauyhlln sought news OF her
small daughter The Clark girl was
Hefiant and refused TO answer u Ques-
ZION. but little Josephine, when she
had regained her composure. told how
she had been enticcd to the Hat.
She said that some weeks ago she had
met q young man named John Conkl!n
at A dance In the ne!ghbo.hood Of her
homo.
"Come on TO dance" he suggested.
and when she said that she would have
20 ask her mother. he added; ''Oh. come
on. now. You can b. homo by nine
o'clock"
After she consented to 20 he sug-
sssted that instead of q dance they
would take a trolley ride. and she
asreed. They got OF at Ono Hundred
and rorty-fourth street and he per-
suaded her to enter the nat. Once
there his manner changed and he
threatened her with all sorts OF pun
tshment ~ she resisted. She begged
and cried, but he took her clothes away
and shut her up in the bedroom.
The youth arrested gave his name as
John Hamilton and said he was twenty.
one years old and q driver. He wa,
charged with abduction. though Eliza
beth Clark would not accuse him. The
Clark girl was charged with vagrancy
and Josephine with juvenile delinquency
Capt. Jones questioned them at Length
in his ONCE. but the elder girl and Ham
ifon declared they did not know where
NConklin was Detectives are looking :oi
him. The three will be arraigned before
Magistrate House in the Yorkvills Court
to-day II Capt. Jones completes his sx
Hination In time.