WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 December 1913, Page 5

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

LURID REVELATIONS,

Times' —'Sydney Sun' Special tables. (Received Last Night, 6.40 o'clock.) NEW YORK, December 8. Lurid revelations concerning the white slavers' methods are expected in New York, following the arrest Armand Megaro, a young South American chemist's assistant, who is charged with administering a drug with a hypodermic syringe to Mrs Marjorle Grabb, the wife of a Newark civil engineer, who had been married only a fortnight. The woman was sitting in a box at a New Jersey kinematograph entertainment, Megaro taking a seat alongside her. Suddenly she felt a sharp prick in the arm, and Immediately became numbed. She managed to retain her senses, and staggered into a dressing room, and informed the attendants. She then collapsed, but recovered, and led the police to the box, where Megaro was still sitting. The accused was arrested, but strongly protested his innocence. He was released on bail of £4OOO. The police believe that the arrest will clear up 'numerous mysterious disappearances of young girls. A similar case is reported in connecting with a girl who was drinking ice cream and soda. Two men who were seated alongside her injected a drug. The girl retained her senses sufficintly to call the attendants. The men claimed relationship with tho girl, but the suspicions of the attendants were aroused, and they called the police, whereupon the men made off. ' The poison used was possibly eurari, which produces vertigo and drowsiness. . The cases have been principally occurring in darkened cinematograph halls, the girls being afterwards kidnapped and removed to South American haunts of vice. "