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Show uu WILL COMPEL WOMEN TO GIVE TESTIMONY. Salt Lake, April 18. With a view to proventing their principal witnesses In white slave cases (in most cases the girls against whom the offense is alleged al-leged to have been committed) evading evad-ing testimony by marrying tho accused accus-ed men, United States officers and special agents In charge of white slave investigations in this district plan to keep such witnesses In jail until the time of hearing. In order to do this they propose to have the principal prin-cipal girl witness, in the event she Is known to be unwilling to testify against the accused man. placed under such a heavy bond that she will bo un-nble un-nble to furnish it and must remain In jail. In the past, say the officers, justice has been thwarted in many Mann act prosecutions .b. the jiccused men marrying the principal girl witnesses. As a wlfo cannot be called to testify against her husband, this usually prevents pre-vents the government securing a case, and the defendant when he comes to trial Is released because of lack of evidence. Many cases have been known where men alleged to have transported women of the half world from one state to another have, by bribing (he girls, secured their consent con-sent to marriage. Most such marriages marri-ages are mere forms to defeat Justice, as the principals live apart and continue con-tinue In thoir separate paths after the defendant Is released. |