Film-struck, Jeanne left home for Hollywood, but her money ran out, she took a job as a barmaid and was tricked by a man called McGregor into white slavery.
He offered me a job, she declared, but actually he sold me for 150 dollars.
Moved, continually from one place to another, she was kept under watch all the time—until the day when she managed to escape and tell her story to the police of agonies suffered in the vice dens of China-town.
"I don't believe now he is down." in kicking him With these words a partner in a firm, from which a salesman admitted embezzling over £100, instructed solicitor to defend him, states the "Daily Herald."
The salesman, Thomas David James, aged 45, of Bury St. Edmund: was charged there on January 27 with fraud.
Mr. William J. Hayward, of Hayward and Rand, stated that James was their manager for two years. Agreeing that he had instructed Mr. J. N. B. Ashton to plead for James, Mr. Hayward made the remark quoted above, adding:—"I have sufficient trust in him to employ him og:
Mr. Ashton said that in 1936 James had domestic trouble and his marriage was dissolved. That seemed to have been a turning point in his life.
James was put on probation for two years, The Mayor, Mr. E. W. Steward, remarking that had it not been for his previous good character and the generous appeal made by h ployer, he would have received heavy sentence.
State Inquiry A State inquiry into the alleged corrupt practices of the Los Angeles police department began on January 31 with a meeting of the State Legislative Committee (adds the British United Press).
Charges made involve the police department in political corruption, and state that there has been collusion between members of the police force and criminals.
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