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Show mm w is pinna light1 Shocking Details of Plans for Importing Girls From Europe Eu-rope Are Exposed. Special to Tho .Tribune, WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. "Elder" Emuel Bachman of Shelley, Idaho, ap-pcurs ap-pcurs in n very bad light on the faco of tho evidence submitted to the Commissioner-General of Immigration in the caso of Susan Henry, the Scotch girl ordored deported a l'ow days ago irom the port of Boston. In fclie first fdaco, the Mormon claimod he had the egal custody of the child, because .he had entered into a written agroement with her paronts to adopt her, and he Insisted such agreements did not require re-quire tho sanction of a court to bo legally binding. When the matter was refcrfod to the British consul at Boston, Bos-ton, he declared that, no agroement for adoption could be legal unless approved by tho courts. Thus ended the older 's efforts to assume legal custody over the girl. Held Out Inducements. Tho testimony Bhows that tho girl was influenced to como by Bachman 's representations to her that on his magnificent mag-nificent plantation at Shelley lie had I "a fine $100 piano," which should bo her property. Commissioner-General Sargent lias been inexpressibly shocked by a phase of the Scotch lassie's testimony, tes-timony, in which sho assorted that Bachman came into the stateroom whilo she was putting on her stockings stock-ings in the morning, and before leaving leav-ing "lathered" her, a term used to convoy tho information that ho had boaton ber. Tho girl was doported on the ground that she was dependent and bad no one who stood in a rolation to be lawfully law-fully responsible for her support after af-ter Bnchman'8 fako adoption" was exposed. ex-posed. Mr. Sargent explained today that "proselytes" wero being brought to this country, mostly hcnlthy young women from the countries of northern Europe, by "fiftios," through tho port of Boston and settled in Utah. Tliero is no law to reach them except in such unusual cases as that presented hy Susan Su-san Henry. Mr. Sargent is very much exercised over the Henry case. |