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Show ... :::.cjSTf.CTics ;.::;ieo c i;eii i;i v;;:ite slave trade ITsrshal Anderson Declares . They Do Not Hesitate to " Poison Victims. C. ' With' the arrest ta Ran Franciaco last Friday' night of T. V, Bagga. United I Stale Marshal Jamee H. Anderson be- Hevee that tha hut of quartette of . "white Slav" operator ia behind the ; J bar. The officer aay the quartstte has hwi operating extensively over Utah. lrtahoi Montana and Oregon for several months. . It ia Impossible for the offl-J offl-J cers to tell how many girl have fallen J victims to their wiles, but It Is known 1 that there are several. - The ouartette. acoordlng to the offl-ears, offl-ears, was. composed of J ark O'Keefe. Her-1 Her-1 hert Knvoa and Roe Morrison. Bagga ,' snd O'Keefe are the alleged leaders of the gang- 0Keef eras arrested In Ore-gnn Ore-gnn several weeks ago, on ths charge of vagrancy. He waa about to he released en that charge when the government of firera filed charges of whit slave traffic traf-fic king agatnat him. and he 1 bow In jail at Orande, Or. Rose Morrison was arrested In Oregon snd brought back to this dty, where he v.as Indicted by the recent federal grand Jury and la now In Jail In this city. Ken-yon Ken-yon waa taken la Montana, where, according ac-cording to . press dispatches, he entered a plea of .gtillty last week and was sentenced sen-tenced to Ave yeare In the govsrnment priMia a Leavenworth, Kaa. 7 tie search for Bagga has been going on for weeks. Last Thursday Marshal A ndrson learned that he had been In oicnen and that he had taken a train for ban Francisco. The officers In that ntv were notified and when Bagga ironed off the train he was placed under arrest. According to Information received br Varshai Anderson, bsggs has been ad- -d to come to this city snd face th chanrs. . He is expected to arrive here nn-irnlna, XiKrahal Anderaon declared thia mom-(r mom-(r that th (ana waa well oramnlaed and l -.4 an almoat perfect rode throuah which t i memhera communicated with each rher without let tint an von la know meantnr of th meaaa aent. He declared that in moat whlta alava cM It waa a difficult matter to aa-rur aa-rur evidence, aa the victim wer thraat-t thraat-t -,vf with death ahould they dlvula any 4 ".rmatton to th officer of th law. ( under th control of auch a fan, ha hh t. th women wer In very deed alavea. c watched ' at all tlmea by their K - . -ra. One th latter euapected a alii f aivina Information, h aald. It waa an ft v matter to give hr poleon. Th 1 verdict waa "daath by aulcld." -rvhai Anderaort aald thia mornlna tHt the captur of the four men and t a other who hav been arreat4 dur ' r tr. ,at month or two did not mean it ma "whit )av traffic had been "Urn declare that ther are other and that every effort la beinar made i. run down th violator of th law. |