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INVESTIGATIONS AT WHITECHAPEL 271<br />

clothes. If I bring a girl out here, I see she<br />

knows the business before we start.<br />

" I am not on this earth to buy trouble,<br />

and if a girl is willing to undertake the trip,<br />

interfere ? The first<br />

why should busybodies<br />

questions I always ask my '<br />

sounders '<br />

[agents who " sound " and procure the girls]<br />

" '<br />

are, Does the girl know her business ?<br />

Has she passed the probationary stages ?<br />

Does she want change of air, change of<br />

climate, good food, and good clothes ? If she<br />

does, bring her to me I'll ; do the rest.'<br />

"I never go near Whitechapel; it's not<br />

worth the risk," the " pimp " "<br />

added. If a<br />

girl is agreeable to go out of England of her<br />

own free will, who can stop her ? Not the<br />

police they have no power to stop her. Nor<br />

yet the so-called preventive societies who<br />

6<br />

'<br />

live on the game and are not worth thinking<br />

about. So, if a woman observes the law<br />

and it's a free country whilst you keep<br />

the law where's the harm ? It's the law<br />

that rules not sentiment."<br />

Such was the " pimp's " summing up of<br />

the horrible trade<br />

and defiant.<br />

heartless, inhuman, brazen,<br />

I went primarily to Whitechapel Police<br />

Station to question the authorities about this<br />

fellow. Whilst the officers would not commit<br />

themselves, it was clear, to my mind, that<br />

they knew their man, and may ere long give<br />

him a little more law a#d be instrumental<br />

in meting out to him salutary justice, with<br />

a plentiful supply of hard labour to balance

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