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Title: Can such things be? : a story of a white slave
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gleeson, William, 1843- Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU
Subjects: Prostitution
Publisher: (Chicago : s.n.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois at Chicago
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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. Ive no time tofritter away with you. He held her by the arm. Seeing her appeal would avail her nothing, Clem walkedby the side of the man. On the road they were joined byothers, till it seemed like a procession; the people on thesidewalk laughing, and guying the girls as they were ledpast them. Reaching the station, the place was crowded withwomen of all ages, colors and conditions. Some of themwere the worse for liquor and persisted in giving lip to theofficers, who only laughed at them. When one was extraviolent or offensive, she was grabbed by one of the officers,led to the stairs leading to the cells, and rudely shoveddown. Some there were who were so much the worse fordrink that they fell in a heap to the bottom of the stairs,and had to be dragged to the cell in which they were thrown.Many were bailed out promptly. A justice or, more prop-erly, an injustice was on hand to go through the matter ofform, and earn his dollar. The lieutenant, who just arrived, after looking over the
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Brixc. Hkr Along AIike THE ROUND-UP 153 motley group, smiled, as he said to the desk sergeant, Apretty good haul tonight, Serg. Yes, sir, touching his hat. **Weve booked ninety-seven already, and theyre still coming. There was a ruddy-faced man at the clerks desk, sign-ing bonds as fast as the clerk could arrange his papers. Many of the girls, who were waiting for their release,passed ribald remarks about the pinch, laughing as if itwas a joke. Several who were friendless were ultimately led downstairs, among them Clementina Montague, and placed incells, as many as five and six in some of them, to await trialin the morning. It was a night of horrors. Dante could have found an-other scene to illustrate his conception of the abode of theeternally damned. Some there were who screeched out foul epithets againstthe minions of the law; some sang ribald or lewd songs;others raved in their delirium. There were occasional fightswhere, after considerable hair pulling, the combatants hadto be pl

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