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274 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
prostitution, and three months for beating
her when she had no money to give him.
This is one of the cases where the " bludger "
is caught and dealt with under the authority
of the law ; and, as the law now stands, this
human monster is penalised in about half the
sentence he would have received for break-
ing a plate-glass window if he had belonged
to the suffragette league, or if he had not
belonged to any league, but, simply as a
matter of getting money easily, had stolen
a policeman's watch, for which no British
Court would have given him less than twelve
months. But for living on the prostitution
of an unfortunate woman who is forced to
sell her body to men and her mind to the
"
devil this "bludger gets three months, and
three months more for beating and kicking
her when she has no money to give him.
A case is recorded at Leman Street against
two oily-tongued wretches -young Jews, goodlooking,
well dressed, and apparently free
with money who decoyed two handsome
girls, both Jewesses and, I am told, both wellbehaved.
These girls were trapped at White-
off to that fearful burial-
chapel and shipped
ground for thousands of our girls Buenos
Ayres. The police showed me the photographs
of these girls. They were well developed and
comely. I also saw the picture of the " pimps."
One would take them to be anything but
"pimps."
The method they adopted to decoy these
girls is the old, old story: fine clothes, silk