Show GLITTER SLITTER OF DIAMOND FLASHED IN EYE PUT GIRL IN POWER OF A HYPNOTIST Rosa Mclaughlin Is Subjected Subjected Subjected Sub- Sub to o Outrageous Treatment in Effort or to o Lead Her er to o Shame ame PHILADELPHIA Dec 12 As 5 As If awakening from a horrible nightmare Rose McLaughlin a 3 thoroughly respectable respectable respect respect- with het her well-to-do well 1 able ble girl living living- parents at No 30 Cresson street has returned home from a sanitarium where here she has been for a 3 week eck recoverIng recovering recovering recover recover- ing from abuses Inflicted upon her ba by b- bya a hypnotist who lured her from home honc held her a prisoner in the house No o. o North Twelfth street street- beat and starved her and after stripping her of mon money and Jewelry forced her to receive attentions attentions attentions atten atten- from men and final finally deserted e her leaving lea the the- unfortunate te girl destitute destitute desti desti- tute sick and alone In ht a strange house No such mch story stor as HI that of Ro Rose e McLaughlin Mc Mc- lc- lc Laughlin marks malks a page In ht the police annals annals annals an an- nals of or Philadelphia She was found oun wandering the streets trets under the Influence Influence ence of oC drugs b by Detective e er who took the girl to a hospital In Her Own O Words The girls girl's story Is best told in her o own n words word 1 All the resorts she de describes I Iare are notorious places plaCe Some of oC them figured In the recent raids when the 1 5 girls under 15 years of ago were placed ere placed under arrest b by the local 1 police wh who who- under pres pressure pressure- re from fron bo both h the Russian and the Germ German n Governments Go Here Hele Is Rose McLaughlin s 's story slon I am nearly nearh 16 years cars ol old I never ne spent a night out of my fathers father's house hOUM before fore November 2nd when hen I met aman a a. aman man who was introduced d to me He claimed to be a musician and gave e a me I tickets for a matinee and invited In me to meet him and d my friend later Inter in the da day and take dinner with them It heln being Sunday Sunda I had m my hest dress and all ll m my jeu je elty elry on 1 agreed to dine with him and to m meet t him after the matinee on Wednesday This is the er very last thing I remember of ot all that tha t happened on that Sunday The next that I Ir r recall was finding myself locked In a 3 small Email dirty room with three other girls sirls Ve We were all deathly sick Went Without Fo Food d We were without ut food for many hours and no no attention was paid to our cries rles The Theman man finally came int into the room and treated the matter as a huge Joke as did two repulsive women who were with him Cheap heap tawdry gowns were furnished us and we were taken down three flights of stairs to a bril- bril lIghted room where there were a dozen girls of our own ae age who were dancing with sailors and soldiers and drinking I was making m my wa way to the street when the man caught me meIn in his arms arm pushed pu hed me mc against the wall put some glittering thing like a a diamond diamond diamond dia dia- mond before my e eyes es and I went to sleep When I awoke I was r in a a. different house where re there were five fic or six other girls We Ve were all without clothIng clothIng clothing cloth- cloth Ing and all aller er very sick When we were ere taken down downstairs we found a lot of or young joung men working people wh who bought drinks There was no dancing I started started started start start- ed out of the front door dool and got as far faras faras as a cigar store when m my captor as before before before be be- fore seized me and put me to sleep I Iwas Iwas was dressed in a a. red wrapper when this happened When I awoke I found myself myself my my- self tied to t vo chairs with this wrapper wrapper wrap wrap- wrap wrap-I per and I was all cut and bruised from froma I IR a R frightful beating I must have received re re- re I recall n such beating but great welts welt m marked my body from head to heels There Were Other Times I experienced similar trea treatment three or four tour tim times s afterward always awakening awakening awakening awak awak- ening In a new house I was never ne on the street with the matt man but once and that night I followed dazed and speech speech- less I could coul see and hear and understand understand understand under under- stand but could coul 1 not utter a sound We re went vent to a house where a lot of or China China- men were eating at uncovered unco tables with white women and girls and afterward afterward afterward after after- ward we wen went to a dance hall where I I danced with m my captor I was death deathly sick all the while but danced because I 1 could not stop The Th man took us away from the dance hall In a carriage There were two other girls In the party part and two other men All six of us rode In the same carriage I never saw an any of or the party part before except that manThe manThe man The carriage stopped several times before the man and I got out We en entered entered entered en- en a house on North Twelfth street t that night and I was there kept a prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner onel until the man drove me to the streets after beating heating and robbing me He brought men In to see me and otherwise otherwise other other- wise wie treated Ill-treated me He never ne allowed me to have an any street clothes clothe and when I 1 was not asleep I r was as generally tied to the bed or between two chairs |