The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08
.,,,ety Should Step In and Prevent
younu White Girls From Wreck
ing Their Precious
Lives.
|Is a DANGEROUS GAME
sf..her Of Mrs. Charlie Sing Says
There Is No Use In Attempting
to christianize the
chink.

uruited Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO. Sept. s.---'Society should
,tep In and prevent young white girls
from wrecking their lives by attempt
ling 70 christianize orientals who know
I nothing and care nothing of our Cod
declared Henry Davis, Kansas City
E railroad detective, today, standing be-
side the cot OF his young daughter.
Mrs. Charles Sing. while the police
we're grilling her for information
about the murder OF her Chinese hus-
hand.
"The Elsie sigel case wasn't
enough, said Davis. foolish girls for
rot 1t in a month--and careless par
ents, I'm afraid, too Every state in
the union should pass laws that would
/ prohibit white girl from ever cross
Ing a Chinaman's Threshold"
Alice Davis. her father said today,
1 vas simple country girl when be
1 left a Missouri farm and took his
family to Kansas City She had led
class In country sunday school
and naturally turned to mission work,
under Mrs. Woods, who was inter
ested in attempting to convert Kan
tas City Chinese. In Chinese res
taurant in Kansas City she met Char.
les Sing and before her father knew
that she had left Kansas City she was
I IN Chicago and married to the wealthy
young Chinaman.
aHer mother was heart broken
said Davis. I'VE wrote her but she
wrote back that She loved him more
than any one else in the world Alice
Sing today denies that she had eve
been friendly with George Morn, th'
Chinaman being sought by the polic'
In connection with the Staying of he
husband. She admitted that she al
lowed Morn to hide in the Sing apart
rnents for three days because he salt
that immigration authorities wer
after him but she said that he dis
appeared the day before her hushan
was killed.
Through the revelations made i
the black book" seized in raid o
Chinese resort in Chicago, fmmigrs
tion officials today planned to follo'
trail leading through the China
towns Of score of American cite
in the search for hand Of orienta
criminals whose business Is the er
trapping Of young white girls and tn
smuggling OF opium and Chinese Int
this country. Acting under order
from A. Caminetti, United State
commission OF immigration at Wasl
ington, immigration officers here tt
day went into conference with pole
officials who accidentally stumbled N
on the black book" while raiding tn
resort of Morn.
Frank Moy, mayor of the Chicae
Chinatown today offered his service
to the government officials and polk
In deciphering the queer character
the book and promised to lead of
cials along the path Of the unde
ground railway as indicated by IL
list In the book.
From Alice Sing. the young viii
wife of the murdered man, the fe
eral authorities and police belize
they will obtain further evidenc
They are satisfied that she was {
friendly terms with Morn and tn
when she makes detailed statemel
she will reveal some of the process
by which the gang of Chinese whi
slavers and smugglers worked.
The Third Degree.
CHICAGO. Sept. S.-Extreme "thi
degree" methods were used by u