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INVESTIGATIONS AT WHITECHAPEL
BY MR. WILLIS
DAUGHTERS OE THE POOR
AFTER gaining full information in the East,
Middle East, and Par East as to the management
of this awful traffic in white women,
writes Mr. Willis, I determined to gather facts
at this end and learn first-hand, so to speak,
the methods adopted in London by "pimps"
for filling the vacancies in the ranks of the
unfortunates abroad, which death, disease, and
mysterious disappearances cause with fearful
rapidity.
It is well known in the East known to
those who care to know, known to those who
want to know that many white women and
white girls are recruited for " trade " purposes
at Whitechapel and the surrounding
districts the home of the poor, the over-
worked, the under-fed, and the scantily
clothed and often brutally used women and
girls of several nationalities.
Armed with a letter of authority, I waited
on the chief officer at the Whitechapel police
headquarters in Leman Street. Once autho-
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