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Show WHITE SLAVER BETS LOWE PBISIM TflN Judge Keneraw Mountain Landis Makes an Example of a Chicago Italian. STRONG TALK FROM BEN0I7 Court Warns Unprincipled Men That the Lav Is Going to Be Enforced With Vigor. By Associated Press. CHICAGO. April 21'. Aldudino Maz-zone. Maz-zone. an Italian vaudeville performer, was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment Imprison-ment In the Fort Leavenworth federal prison today by Judye K. M. Landis after belnp found guilty of violating the iiann act prohibiting traffic in women. His alleged victim was Dorothy Schmidt. 15 years of ape. whom he Is charged with taking to Muscatine, la., and deserting. Tn passing sentence Judge Landia arraigned ar-raigned the five-cent theater. "Much has been said and written of the ways of these flvj-ccnt theaters." said Judge Landis. "and of their dangers and demoralizing influences. Ru'tlit wildest stuff that ever has tcc-u written or said has not got beyond the merest fringe of the real facts, as far as there Is danger, to young girls especially." , Continuing, the judge said: "This de- IH fondant's defonxc. swoni to, was that the 1 H girl was unhappy at homo and 'that his t act was one of philanthropy, a reaching put by him to lift up and help a girl purdined by unhappy home relations. So i he took her out to Iowa and deserted i her. The girl's dresses came only lo her , -.ioe-tops. and this fact should have beon 1 a protection to her. "As far as I am concerned, this law is going to have such enforcement In ap-plication ap-plication as will be calculated to make a llfteen-yeur-old girl the most dangcroun tn.ng in this community for unprlnci-plod unprlnci-plod men to tamper with." He then read tho sentence of ten veara iH mpnsonment. Out In the corridor henr- fM y a hundred Italians, who had gath-ered gath-ered to hear sentence imposed, set up a iH wail and many fell on their knees lm-ploring lm-ploring mercy for their countryman and H calling down vengeance on the court and prosecutor. |