New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Prostitutes -- Fiction
"You should make your investigation sufficiently broad to cover not
only present conditions, but also conditions existing in the past
within the statute of limitations.
"I charge you that it is your duty to pursue this inquiry into every
channel open to you and to present to the court the facts found by
you."
Pursuant to Your Honor's instructions, we have made an investigation
into the matters referred to in Your Honor's charge. We have called
before our body every person whom we could find who we had reason to
believe might have information on the subject. Among others were the
following: a member of the National Immigration Commission assigned
to investigate conditions relating to importing, seducing, and
dealing in women in the City of New York; the author of an article
which appeared in _McClure's Magazine_ for November, 1909, entitled
"The Daughters of the Poor"; a former under sheriff in the County of
Essex, New Jersey; the President of the New York Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children; the author of a pamphlet entitled
"The White Slave Traffic"; a member of the New York State Immigration
Commission appointed by Governor Hughes in 1908; a former Police
Commissioner of the City of New York; detectives and other agents
especially employed in connection with this investigation; members
and ex-members of the New York Independent Benevolent Association;
witnesses in the specific cases presented to this Grand Jury, as well
as a number of other citizens. In addition, the foreman, the
District Attorney and his Assistants, have interviewed
representatives of the following organizations:
The Committee of Fourteen; its Research Committee;
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children;
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice;
The Charity Organization Society;
The Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor;
The Committee on Amusements and Vacation Resources of Working Girls;
The Society for Social and Moral Prophylaxis;
The Florence Crittenden Mission;
The New York Probation Association;
The Headworkers of various Social Settlements;
The Women's Municipal League;
The Society for the Prevention of Crime;
The Bureau of Municipal Research.
We also published in the daily press of this city on the 6th day of
May the following:
"The Additional Grand Jury, sworn in in January by Judge O'Sullivan
of the Court of General Sessions, was charged with the investigation
of the truth or falsity of certain statements which had been publicly
made during the past few months to the effect that the City of New
York is a center or clearing house for an organized traffic in women
for immoral purposes, or what has come to be known as the
'white-slave traffic.'
"Pursuant to this charge the Grand Jury has been seeking legal
evidence on this subject from all available sources. The information
which many citizens have volunteered to give has proved in most cases
to be general rather than specific.
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