A TRAP FOR GIRLS.
Wilt riiUSS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, December 12. Police Court to-day, Helen Marks, a middle-aged woman, was charged will] attempted pvorunit ion, and also charged with keeping a lion.se of ill-fame in Union street. The evidence of the girls (one 1(5 years of age and the other 21 years) was to the effect that, on being informed that the accused wanted servants, they visited the house and obtained employment there, each at £1 per week. Oil the day after their engagement accused came into the room, followed b\ a man, and certain proposals were made and relused. Subsequently another man came into the room, and the girls again declined to comply with the desire of accused. When they retired to bed their door was locked on the outside, and it was still locked at 1 a.m., but at 7 a.m. it was opened. One of the girls wrote a letter (o a neighbour who came and took them away. The further hearing of the case was adjourned until to-morroiv.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8002, 13 December 1905, Page 2
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171A TRAP FOR GIRLS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8002, 13 December 1905, Page 2
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