| Show HELL HOLES i recently the louisville courier coun er johnal published it a brief account ot of the vilo vile lens dens of infamy which flourish llo ilo at marinette and in other parts of the lumber re regions ions of wisconsin and mi michigan 1 eligan the fourier Jo journal Ji urial says that account was necessarily an incomplete one on being in 0 based chiefly on the revelations of a very young victim who hy by rare good fortune had escaped from one of these places and found her way once more to civilization and freedom but it was sufficiently full in its details to shock the country with astonishment and indig indignation natian and since then it lias has been more than confirmed upon investigation the chicago herald within the past week has had bad several reporters throughout this region 0 detailed to learn and disclose tile the real facts of abi this matter chest reporters went out to the place mixed among the people and gained access to the dens themselves the story of wretchedness ruin brutality cepi depravity amity and hopelessness which they sent hack baek were vere startling and sickening ning indeed if they had bad been concocted by the most active and reeking imagination of the french realist they could not have heen been more horrible in their revelations these dens were found in various sections of wisconsin and michigan their cliar character acter is well known by the people among whom they exist anci and their proprietors stand in wit with I 1 i tl the 1 e authorities and have no fear of na mo 0 lostion lc le stion are conducted generally by men and are supplied mainly from young and innocent girls I 1 who are kidnapped or lured t through promise of lucrative cm once behind the doors of these places hope may as well be abandoned the houses are by high stockades surrounded by wildernesses wilder nesses of thickets and briers aad are vigilantly guarded by men and bloodhounds andia there were no such barriers toj tol escape as these it would atwould be a difficult matter fc for no sooner is a girl inside one of these holes than the last stitch of lier her clothing is taken away from her and she is given a gaudy pair of stockings and a single short skirt which must constitute her entire wardrobe she is beaten and kicked and starved into the basest of slaves she has some male brute arute assigned to I 1 0 her whose business it is to watch ier especially especial lv and prevent bertrom her from escaping and a nd whom slie she must support out of the wages M of her in infamy farny he is subject to the most rigid and tyrannical system of fines and punishments i ish and her existence is one af the most diabolical depravity and misery until premature death comes to her relief when the reporters first went among these places their mission was ted but their first published accounts at once put the scoundrels on ill their guard strangers thereafter were closely watched and when the reporters were identified they were summarily ordered to leave the country and now comes the news that one of them lias has been murdered while pursuing his investigations tho people of wisconsin and michigan certainly should not have needed this last crime clinic to arouse them to prompt act action ionin in closing these hell b holes i 1 s which disgrace their stat states I 1 it it is far from froin the first murder of which scoundrels have been guilty and it depends entire lyon tile the authorities ties that are responsible for these dens whether it shall bo be the last surely no blacker system of diabolism ever degraded any section of this country and it would lie io hard to name one as black longer does tho the northwest which lias has ever been a stickler for law and order in tho the south intend to harbor it |
