Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-26
WHITE SLAvERS
 STILL ACTIVE
In Three Months 3o7 Women and Girls Disappeared in New York City,
 Several Taken From Resorts.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Facing the startling fact that no less than 961 New Workers have disappeared from the face of the earth in three months, 397 of them being girls and women and that only 194 of them have been found by the police, the head of the police department has ordered the guardians of the greater city to divert their attention for a time from the gangsters and gunmen to the cadets
 and white slavers.
 With eight young girls of good fam
 fly on the missing list at one time, the
 police awoke to the undeniable fact that white slavery with all it's almost unbelievable horrors is real institu- tion in New York. Discoveries made recently in the finding of several lost girls have shown that a state of af- fairs exists in the heart of New York
 whereby young girls can be snatched
 bodily from their homes, almost un-
 der the eyes of their families and sold into bondage that is worse than death.
 The police, therefore, have under taken a campaign of vigorous rough handling against the white slavers, similar to the war they recently wag- ed against the gangsters of the East Side. The gunman crusade was in measure successful. It is believed that similar move against the enc
 mics of women will have equal suc- cess Instead of arresting gunmen in
 dignified manner and giving them the benefit of long drawn out arraign- ments and trials, allowing them to swagger in court and receive the hom-
 age of their satellites while in the Tombs. the police were ordered to use their clubs on gangsters wherever found. The uniformed men and de
 tectives were authorized to beat the
 2unmen on the slightest provocation. Tn 2 short time several of the worst of the East Side rowdies were sent to hospitals instead of police stations and one policeman was highly com mended for killing thug who tried to escape. The fellow had struck down an old junk dealer, who refused to give him money for whiskey, and when he attempted to escape in the maze of East Side tenement area-ways, as was always permissible in "the good old days" the policeman shot him dead That sort of thing had whole sale effect on the gangsters. Police Commissioner Mckay hopes it will work out in similar fashion in the case of the white slavers. The mo- torious gunmen of New York's East Side are not bad men at all in the true sense of the word. They are physical towards. They cannot stand pain and punishment. They are anae- mic, shallow-chested, drug-exhausted youths who can ride around in high powered automobiles and shoot their rivals in the back with automatic pis- tols. But they cannot fight Physical violence makes them cry like babies. The cadets are of the same calibre. That is why the police heads think that mailed-fst crusade will elim- mate them from New York.
 Recently passerby on one of the apparently respectable streets on the upper West Side saw a piece of fold ed paper flutter down at his feet. It was 9 note from 16-year-old girl who wrote that she was being held as a white slave. The man called a
 policeman and they invaded the fiat from which the note was thrown. They found there two men and a woman.
 In rear room, locked up without
 clothing was the girl. She said she had been seized on the street near her home, thrust into an automobile and brought to the flat, where she was held prisoner, without clothing and compelled by beatings to receive men visitors. Police investigation ver- flied the story. Many similar stories have been told to the police in the last three months and the authorities may know that the white slave traffic, with all it's insidious notifications, is ! no myth in New York.