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Show KIDNAP FIFTEEN 1 CIS IN MONTH; Organized Gang in Chicago Engaged in Luring Girls Away From Home Into Slavery. Detective Squad Has Been Organized to Run Down Human Fiends and Break Up Horrible Practice One Child Has Miraculous Escape. Chicago. Under orders from Chief of Pollco Shlppy a special "kidnap" Equad of detectives was detailed on Thursday to search for missing girls. It Is believed that n thoroughly organized or-ganized gang Is luring girls nway from homo nnd selling them Into whlto slavery. Within tho last month fifteen girls havo mysteriously disappeared. dis-appeared. They range In nge from 13 to 19 years, nnd nil were attractive. The victims, so far as known, are: Evelyn Herndon, Corlnno Hughes, Portln Austis, Helen Powell, Mary Noyes, Myrtle Byrnes, Joscphlno Smith, Florenco Javawallde, Rcbcccn Maudol, Martllena Iglosa, Gertrude Peterson. Stncla Schllds, Elizabeth Lally and Anna Donllon. Emily Hobnn, supposed to have been lured nway by F. J. Blair of San Francisco, has not yet been found. Laura Williams, 14 years old, was on Wcdnesdny forced to nccompany a matt twenty-seven miles across tho Indiana line, but escaped through tho intervention of some section hands. |