A woman came from the resort, kicked the prostrate form of the unconscious girl with her foot, then grasping her by the hands, dragged her into the hell chamber from which she had emerged to breathe a little of God’s own air.
That is not the story of a heated imagination. It was actually witnessed. Incidents of similar character which beggar description, occur every night, when these outcasts are confronted by drunken, blood-exacting degenerates.
Some of these men are the slave masters of several women.
In a recent White Slave case in the federal court, one of these wretches confessed that he was the “cadet” of four prostitutes. He drove them on in their vicious labors, forced them to work day and night to bring him money from which he made his own living and paid protection to the police and tribute to the Vice Trust.
This man swore that he made from fifty to sixty dollars a week from each girl.
Many of these “cadets” do not live in the “redlight” districts. They scatter and come back when it is time to gather in the gold.
“CADETS” AND POLICE GRAFT.
The business of exacting graft from these men is a difficult police problem because of their nomadic habits. Still it is accomplished.
Rendezvous of these men are frequently raided by the police and these “cadets” to save themselves give up what money they may have with them.
Many of them, however, cannot keep away from the scenes of their crimes and cravenly and regularly pay their price.