Identifier: B20442506 (find matches)
Title: Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade (electronic resource) : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ...
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928 Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission
Subjects: Prostitution
Publisher: (Chicago? : L.H. Walter?)
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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ly charge thatthe local authorities of New York can bringagainst these men is that of vagrancy and nomagistrate will convict on a charge of va-grancy when the alleged vagrant can showthe deeds to property worth $20,000 or $30,000.An incident of this kind actually happened inNew York three years ago. The French syndicate as far as is known,is not an incorporated body like the Jewish or-ganization, but that they have an organiza-tion is not questioned for a moment by thosewho have investigated conditions in New YorkCity. The federal authorities have broken upa house which was alleged to be the head-quarters of the French macquereaux. Mostof the women deported by the federal author-ities in New York have been French womenand most of the men arrested in this connec-tion were also found to be of French extrac-tion. The report of the police department for1908 shows that out of fifty-five applicationsfbr warrants for alien prostitutes, 41 were ar-rested, 30 were ordered deported, and 26 were
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MY GOD! IF I COULD ONLY GET OUT OF HERE. The midnight sln-irk of a young girl in the vice district of a largecity, heard by two worthy men, Btarted a crusade which resulted indosing up the dens of shame in that city. WHITE SLAVE TRADE 183 actually deported. Seven cases are stillpending; four were discharged and the othersleft the country or disappeared. Out of 19warrants for the arrest of the alien men, 11were arrested of whom four were sent to pris-on and ordered deported at the expiration oftheir sentence. Four were discharged; 2 casesare pending and one escaped. In most casesthe men and women were French. Owing to the vigilance of the Federal au-thorities, and co-operation of the police de-partment, the French end of the business re-ceived a severe blow in the city of New York.Out of 400 French macquereaux known tohave women in houses, at least 300 left thecity when the Federal authorities began to se-cure convictions against some of their mem-bers. However, the decision given m th

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