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New York Times. "Women Held As Slavers." New York Times 7 September 1910: 20.

New York Times

WOMEN HELD AS SLAVERS.
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Two In Chicago Are the First Indicted Under New Federal Law.

CHICAGO., Sept. 6. — The first indictment under the Mann White Slave act, passed by Congress on June 25, were returned by a Federal Grand Jury to-day against Nettie Jenkins of Houghton Mich., and Ethel Culver of Chicago, who are charged with conspiring to place five young girls in a resort at Houghton.

Before the Federal Commissioner the women waived examination and gave bail. The arrest of Mrs. Jenkins in July was the first under the new Mann law.

 

 

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