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Show M CATTLE Strangers Buy Them at ;; the Rate of- $500 Per Head. i - v Los Angelcs,-Cal . Dcc."21 Declaring Declar-ing that the local Russian colony was ai marriage market wherein young girls were bartered like cattle by their parents, Elsie Nnvlkoff, 17 years old, while in the juvenile' court yesterday on a delinquency chaige, screamed that she would bare the secrets of her ijbcc rnther than .submit to marry a stranger to whom she allegos her parents par-ents were trying to sell hY. ypho tlecjared that in the Russian quarter, with aRopulation of about 3000, thero wore 1100 young girls for sale at an average price of $500. "They have sold me, bartered away my body and soul to a man I have 'never seen,'' the girl cried. "I will die before I will marry him. I love an Amorlcan and he loves me and we 'will be married as soon as I can got away from my people." Rayner Hallock. a former United States navy sailor, declared he loved tho glil iind would -gladly marry her. - oo |