"THE INTERNATIONAL PLAGUE OF PLAGUES.
THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.
50 GIRLS ENTRAPPED.
BAND OF WOMEN CRIMINALS CAUGHT.
Tullhhogne, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland,
May 8th, 1909.

"A series of mysterious seductions has recently occupied the attention of the press in various districts, including Ballina Mallard, near Enniskillen, in Ireland, the destination of several girls having been discovered under circumstances which pointed unmistakably to foul play.

"There was no definite clue to work upon, until a detective was employed acting on certain suspicions, disguised as one of the fraternity, attended upon the kidnappers: Alice Pipe, Annie Smith, May Carroll, Emma Gill, J. Hughes, McClung and Company, Unlimited, in their Chapel in Leadbetter Street, Belfast, who was at once struck by highly offensive blasphemy emanating from these women during the temporary stay which was with difficulty concealed, but hearing sudden conversations behind the scenes, glanced around and saw the very girl, of tender age, of surprising good looks who had been decoyed, that was sought for previously in vain. The detective dodged these seducers and obtained other detectives, who, on searching, found that other 50 girls had been entrapped.

“A quantity of doggerel literature was found on them, and shortly after three of this woman tribe were arrested, who, according to their statements, constituted a band of robbers under the leadership or patronage of J. West, W. H. West (meaning thereby the Plaintiff) A. H. Robb…Most of these are enormously strong and masculine-looking, and have terrorised girls…into their traps during the last 17 years, who, of course, were unaware of the misdoings behind the scenes. So far, these 50 seductions and others also have been traced to the gang, who netted by them a large sum of dollars."