The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-30
GUY GOFF GETS "A
As. a PURITY CRUSADER
IN STATE OF WISCONSIN

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fighter. MAS caugbt IN Gor:s net and
on June 5. 1914. Judge +. a. GesS1
sentenced him TO Ihree years 1napT
soament at II Leayenwor1h-
In the meantime INSCRIPTIONS wo-s
men IN different parts OF the country
were reported as using the White
slave act as an instrument OF otack-
mad. Their plan, accorcinS TO the
stories thar reached the feoerl Of
ficlais, was to agree with some man
they believed TO nave means, TO cross
state lines for immoral purposes
Then, when the law had been violated
Ihey would demand money payments
as The price CT not making complaint
AGAINST the man 10 the federal otncers-
Others, with no idea OF blackmaii,
were believed TO be equally guilty
with the man, but no United states
attorney ever prosecuted them
The Evil
Cor was fighting the evil itself, as.
we'll as the men who carried on the
revolving traffic in women's oodles;
He heard these stories of attempted
blackmail, attempts that sometimes
succeeded He foresaw OPPOSITION
forming against law which permit
ted such thing. He saw the justice
OF co1vacrlng one person and allow.
ing another, equally guilty, TO escape.
SO ne attacked the thing from new
angle
Chester C. Laudenschleger and
Clara Holte came 10 Wisconsin under
conditions mat made the man guilty
of violating the white slave law: mat
Law made no provision for punishfnS
<ay.
equally guilty with the NAN Goh de-
cided that in this instance both were
guilty, so he started action against
both. He went outside the Mann act
and brought an Indictment charging
conspiracy to violate law Of the
United States.
The woman was willing to enter a
plea of guilty She was II years DID,
the man tut 81 Her attorney con-,
tended that she could not be held I'M
der this law, and fled demurrer to-
the Indictment. Judge Ge.ser, recos-;
nizing the importance OF the case.
sustained the demurrer. It looked to
many as though the United States dis,
trict attorney was out of court
But no jury had been empaneled.
and the law against putting person
twice IN jeopardy for the same of
tense. therefore, did not hold. So
tGon appealed. The case went 10 the
IUnFed States supreme court, and on:
March T5y 1915, that tribunal. the
greatest n the world, reversed Judge
5Geiger and sustained Con-
-:Gon has, done through the inter
pretation Of the Law what we thought
could be done only through congress
sionaI amendment"
So exclaimed the chief of the bu-
reau organized to- fight WHITE slavery
everywhere. United States district
attorneys everywhere took notice OF
this ruling. The laws against white
slavery had been broadened, the Mann
act made more elective; its use as a
possible instrument OF blackman end
ed forever. Mr. Golf was consratu-
lated by high officials. but he bore
konors modestly and went silently on
with his fight against the white slar-
ers The then attorney general au-
thorized him to state his position on
med It up in z letter to B. S. Stead
well. editor of the Light:
Vice Rings
Personally and officially, consid-l
er It vital, IL this wasting cancer,
calling alike to every class OF society,".
is TO be eradicated, that the men and
women responsible for its ex;SIence1
shall be made to realize chat justice
is swift and certain in the punishment
OF all crimes and especially those that
strike at the sure foundation o. all
that is. stable and noble in American
civilization.
story after story might be written
of the individual prosecutions Con
has conducted, but only the major
things can be touched on here. This
district attorney. while hammeTing
away at individual violators OF the
law. turned his attention TO the or
eanized vice rings operating in the
great cities Of the country
Other federal district attorneys mad
tried it too. They had indicted the
principal offenders for white slavers,
and those who helped them for aiding
and abetung in the commission OF the
crime Juries, for some reason. seem
ed to usually acquit on the aiding
and abettng charge. 1t seems hope
less to attack the ring except through
the principals themselves. and this
meant the making of but little head
way
COT went into the statutes again
and dug up the old onenSe OF mis-.
prison of felony Lawyers referred
to 1t is "a law school crime. mean
ing that IT had not been used for 50
many years that 1t was looked upon
largely as something to know about
but rot to use. Goh thought d1uer@
emily. and he launched It against a:
..Greek white slave ring which he
CHARGED was operating in Milwaukee
and other middle west cities.
Misprison of Felony
ofisprtson OF felony. popu1arly
stated, is knowing that an onense has
been committed against the United.
States. that the oHense IS felony!
and falling to give that information