Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03


will be told that Lillian is in danger ana
Shouid be watched. That is all her
mother will know SO long as her daughter
keeps her promise to do right GRADUALLY
We get the story. We get evidence that
will convict man of Il lesser crime than
he has committed, but enough TO send
him to prison for six months If We
charged him with that of which he is
principally guilty he would be charged
with felony and the child's testimony
would be necessary. Shielding the child
We secure some punishment for him. Il
sentence that we hope will be a deter
rent.
To make this plain | cite the case Of
Susie.
Susie was pretty but understood child
of nine. She vas the daughter OF a long
shoreman. She seemed to he tho super-
fluous child. She wasn't old enough to
get her working papers. She wasn't
strong enough TO help in the housework
She wasn't young enough TO require such
watchful care as the youngest in the
family, babe in arms So Susie roamcd
the streets in lstless. amusement
seeking way. She had never had nickel
in her life but she used to stand before
the wonderful colored pictures OF the
pretty women in front Of tho picture
houses and her eyes were wide with
cagcrness.
One day a man who seemed not to be
of that part Of town. a man we'll dressed.
OF pleasing manner, said: Little girl.
wouldn't you like to go inside to sec the
nictures?' Wouldn't she? The child
saw the pictures, but she also learned the
first letters in the alphabet Of sin
The mother police have pointed out
the chance for wrongdoing in the front
rows Of the dark houses lighted only by
red lamps that mark the exits. | could
not credit the stories visited the
houses and myself secured proof Of their
truth do not blame the owners OF
these picture houses. They do not con-
nivc at the evil practices carried on
under cover of the darkness in their
motion picture houses. They are anx-
ious to prevent them. They arc aiding
me in placing mother police on guard,
four or five Of them, scattered in differ
cnt parts of the house SO that colcc-
lively they can command view of the
entire house.
Susie was the victim Of the darkness
and the vile importation from another
part oi town. The mother police diScov-
cred it. through the chld's possession
of more money than IA longshorcman's
daughter was liable TO have. She brought
Susie to me- The child was induced to
tell her story. To protect the child and
her family from disgrace VIC withheld her
part of the story but we had the man ar
rested on a charge OF disorderly con-
duct. He is serving six months term
at Blackwelrs Island.
An Instance in point was the case oil
Mary. Mary was an orphan child who
had come from Europe. She was driven
here by the death grapple on the other
side that has brought SO many misfor-
tunes besides death in its wake. The girl
was fairly educated and tried to find
work as governness. She failed TO get
that or other work because Of her ignor-
ancc Of the institutions Of this country.
At first she said she was willing TO work
as a domestic.
woman whom she had met in the
neishborhood offered to take her to an
employment bureau. She was introduced
to woman OF pleasant manners who
: lived III nice fiat. But when she had
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