The Detroit times., 1915-01-16
WHITE SLAVE
GANG ROUNDED
UP;;l5ARRESTED
Thirteen Women and Two Men
Nabbed in Big Cleanup in
Detroit
HAD THREE RESORTS
HERE, POLICE DECLARE
Said To Have Established Dives
After Being Driven From
Peoria, iii.

Thirteen women and two men were
rounded up by Detective William
Black, the free lance squad, and In
spector Cole, special government white
slave agent Friday night. cleaning up
an alleged white slave ring on which
the local police have been working for
weeks.
Joseph Maloof, % years old, saloon.
keeper, at No. l05 I.arned-st. east:
Clyde Morton, saloonkeeper. SO years
old. OF Peoria, H., and their respec-
tive affinities, Meta Neabit, 29 years
old. and Maude Brownlee, 80 years
Old, OF No. SO Iarned-st. east, are
held as principals In the government
Investigation, and IL women OF the
underworld. residents OF resorts said
TO be operated by the two saloonkeep.
ers and their wives" are held as wit
nesses.
Maloof and Morton, with their wo-
men, were driven out of Peoria last
fall, after government Investigations,
and investigation by the municipal
authorities. Both have served time in
Joliet penitentiary, the police say,
Maloof and his wife serving two years
for white slavery. and Morton serving
two years for interfering with United
States prisoners.
Maloof formerly operated tough
saloon known as the Silver Dollar, In
Peoria. while Morton and his wife
operated another place of bad reputa-
ton, the police say. When the resorts
were driven out of Peoria, last Octo-
Der, by the police, Maloof refused TO
close his place, limiting that the Off.
cials didn't dare close him up. He
was banished shortly afterward, and
he. Morton, the women, and many OF
the former occupants OF their Peoria
resorts, are said to have been operat-
ing in Detroit for at least three
months.
Police took their trail as the result
OF "squeal" from Ruth Allen, now
missing, who told the police some
tim~ ago that she came here from
Pc. a with Maloof and gave him ST..
500 TO purchase resort at No. 21
Jones-st. for her. She declared that
Maloof turned the house over to one
Grace Rogers for that sum, and
| fieeced Miss Allen out OF the money.
She was sent to the office OF Dis.
trict Attorney Webster, and told her
story there. 1t barred the whole
scheme of the white slave ring, which
wau operating two places on Larned-
81. east. and the place on Jones-st
| At that time, Detective Black and
his squad tried to round up the gang
The women were found, but the men,
the alleged kings OF the ring were
missing The officers later received
many mysterious queries about what
they wanted the men for They spread
the word that the men were not want
ed, that the squad was just keeping
| tabs on the places"
Maloof and Morton returned to the
city, Friday, after long absence, and
the police were notified.
Detectives Black and Quinn nabbed
Maloof and Morton at Michigan.ave.
AND Griswold-st., Friday night. Then
| three squads were Immediately sent
out to round up the women, and the
Following prisoners were registered as
| witnesses for the government"
7 Helen Brown, % years old: No.
sephine Palmer. 81; Ruth Parker, %;
frankie Davis, %. and Theresa Castle,
~. all living at No. SO Larned-st. east:
Milo Murl, "a Lille Ross, 80. and
Ethe. Allen, "a, all OF No. 105 Larned-
81. east; Grace Rogers, %: Pearl Mil.
Ter, Is. and Rose Barber, 20 years old
or No. n Jones-st.
The police declare that they have
information that Ruth Allen, their
best witness, has been spirited away
to Texas, but they expect TO get her
and bring her back here.