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THE DAY BOOK

An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday

VOL. 5, NO. 118 Chicago, Tuesday, February 15, 1916 398 '(fy

WHITE SLAVERS LORE

GIRL IN LOOP STORE

Clerk In Boston Store Says Fellow-Employe Introduced

Her to Men Three Men Held Girls From Three

Stores Named In Story.

Sordid details of the victories work

ings of a white slave gang that picked

its prey from one of the richest fields

the department stores ;were un

earthed today by Ass't State's Att'y

Hogan in the Juvenile Court The

Boston'1 Store the Fair and Seigel

Cooper's were the sources of supply

for the scarlet trade.

A 16-year-old girl, already wise far

beyond her years, told how the band

of men plied its trade in the State

street 'stores, how-the freshest girls

were picked out andnsnaretL Seven

girls, all under 18, have been, arrest

ed; their stories confirm the tale of

the first

Mary Smith that isn't her name

was brought into the Juvenile court

when she grew sd bad that even her

trusting mother knew the truth.

Mary up to that time had worked

in the Boston Store-j-in the daytime.

She was sent there because the fam

ily, although respectable, couldn't af

ford to let Mary stay home.

"When she .went she was- a rosy

cheeked and bright-eyed girl, rather

bashful and inexperienced. Fresh

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