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Show WHITE SLAVERS TO FACE TRIAL SALT LAKE CIY, April 3. Ross Morrison, a member of a gang of "cadets," who havo been operating extensively In Salt Lake, who was arrested ar-rested In Walla Walla, Washington, on the charge of violating the -interstate "white slavo" law, -will bo brought back to Salt Lako to await tho action of tho grand Jury. According Accord-ing to word received In Salt lake this afternoon, Morrjsop. was bound over before thc .United States pom-mlssioner pom-mlssioner arid "ah ,ordor .of rerrioval will be applied for Tueadayraornlng, Irene Hobbs, IT? years old, who was enticed en-ticed aw'ay, frdrn her hpme here In a promise of raarrlafee, will also be brought back here to testify against him. Morrison Is declared to bo a professional pro-fessional procurer and tho federal officers have been watching his op-1 erntions for some time. According to Mrsj J. E. Hobbs, of 43 East Seventh South street. Morrison look her daughter away fiom Salt Lako on the promise of marriage. After they arrived ar-rived In Bakor City, Oregon, Morrison refused to marry her and placed tho girl In a house of Ill-fame. Tho girl wrote- to her mother and the letters were turned over to the federal authorities au-thorities A special agent of the department de-partment of justice, who Is attached t,p District Attorney Booth's ofrico, traced tho couple With the assistance of Jasiwr Hobbs, a brother of the young girl, and caused Morrison's arrest. About six months ago Morrison mot the Hobbs girl In Salt Lako. He called at tho house a number of times and took the young girl out to dances. After sho became infatuated with him, ho told her of tho gay easy life of a woman of the underworld and told her how she could mako money and wear fine clothes. He finally ruined her and then promised to marry mar-ry her. Ho left Salt Lake first and went to Portland. From there he sent her transportation and asked her to como there and marry him. She left immediately and for several weeks her mother did not hear from her- Upon Inquiry, the family learned that tho two had not been' njarrlod and had gone to Seattle From Seattle, Mrs Hobbs received a loiter from her daughter which Morrison compelled her to write. The mother became anx ious when she found they were not man led and asked tho federal authorities au-thorities to Investigate the case. In connection with tho case, Jack O'Kcefe. who Is "alleged to bo a member mem-ber of the gang has also been arrested. arrest-ed. Flo Chandler, formerly an inmate of the wesLside stockade, who it is alleged, assisted the "cadets' In enticing en-ticing young girls away from homo, was also arrested. It is probable that these two persons were Implicated in tho case and will be held as witnesses. wit-nesses. -00 |