White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-19


three young men are in jail in the
Utah city to be turned over to fed
eral authorities for white slavery The
party of five came here at the first
of the week. The young men left
the girls here stranded. The former
have gone back where they were
promptly arrested; the latter at last
accounts had passed Hamilton and
Six Mile ranch on their way to Reno.
The names of the men in jail are
Lester Teller, J. L. Willingham and
Donald O'Laugnlin. Tho girls names
have not been made public.
They first showed up at McGill
where they stayed for time ard the
girls were at McGill junction in a
penniless condition, wnere the Wom-
en- of a house of ill-fame took up
collection of 81 and gave it to them.
1t is said the girls did not enter .ha
house there-that if they were
thrown in contact with the under
world other than to have this collec-
ton taken up it did not happen
there
Coming TO Ely one of the men
appeared at the candy kitchen OF
Sam Pallas and applied for employ
ment for the girls Mr. Pallas re-
piled that he could give one girl
work at McGill if she was competent.
The two called together later and
one of them said she had worked in
! 80 In int q
he would find her place to live
with a family and that her deport-
ment must be correct. as otherwise
he could not give her employment
The other one said she was entirely
destitute, whereupon Mr.. Pallas ad
vised her that he would advance
enough money to take care OF her
needs for few days until she could
find work in a restaurant or else
where He never heard OF them
after and believes that they did not
go to his McGill store
1t is understood that the facts did
not reach the sheriff's Office in Ely
until the men had been jailed in Og-
den, VIXEN the police there wired to
4 Sheriff Nicholson to pick up the
iris But in the meantime they had
vanished aud the only clew obtained
was from Carl Muir that they had
been at Hamilton and from Ed Coyle
that they had stopped at the Six
Mile ranch beyond there.
The facts coming out of Ogden 1p-
pear in the Standard-Examin3r 3r
it's account reading as follows:
Three Ogden young men arrest
ed last night by the police are to
be turned over to the federal Of
ficars to be charged with viola
tions Of the Mann act for the al
legged transportation of two young
Ogden girls 10 Ely, Nevada
They are Lester Toller, 10, taxi
cab driver, residing at 2G:6 Madi-
son avenue.
J. L. Willingham. 81, taxicab
driver, of 1885 Fowler avenue.
Donald OLaughlin, 20, clerk,
street.
The young men were in the city
Jail today, bail not having yet been
set.
They are alleged to have taken
the two girls, aged 16 and II, to
Ely in an automobile and to have
left them there and returned AS
they were returning to Ogden last
night shortly before midnight they
we're taken into custody near River
dale by Officer r Smouthwaite and
Detectives w. A. Jones and L. M
Pack. They drove the same taxicab
back to Ogden which they are al
legged to have taken the girls to
Ely.
To Chief of Detectives Robert
Burk today the men made a clean
breast of the entire affair and ad-
mitted taking the girls on the trip.
They said that last Tuesday night
Willingham called at the home Of
one of the girls and told her
mother that he was going to Cali
fornia, that there was to be din
ner given in his honor and he
wanted the girl to go with him.
He said he would bring her home
within an hour.
The other girl was in Ford bug
with O'Laughlin, they said. and
they needed larger car
So they went to telephone
down town and te.ephoned the
brother OF Willingham, who oper-
& ties the A Taxicab company and
told him story that they were
stranded near Riverdale and want
ed him to come out 10 help them.
After the brother had left the
taxicah stand they called there and
took taxicah with Toller as driver
and started on their way westward.
They drove all night and first
stopped at Baker, Nevada. where
they said Wi]Iingham and Toller
and the girls stopped at the hotel,
while O'Laughlin remained n the
car The next day they continued
THAR way IN EJv