City. Upon her arrival Margaret was sold to
one of the worst dives in Chicago, located on South Clark Street and
owned by an Italian named Baptista Pizza. Here she learned that her
captor's name was not Frank Kelly, but an Italian whose real name is
Alphonso Citro. For a year she was kept as a Slave in this resort,
which was over a saloon, and the entrance was through a back alley.
The only visitors were Italians, who came for immoral purposes.
Learning last summer that Margaret's father, who had been hunting
relentlessly for his daughter, was on the track of her, the girl was
taken by Alphonso Citro, alias Kelly, to Gary, Indiana. When the
father came to the resort with a policeman, he found that his
daughter had gone. She was kept in Gary about two months and then
returned to this disreputable place from which she escaped finally,
the Monday before last Christmas. A young barber took pity on her
after hearing her story, and enlisted the sympathies of his parents
who took her to their home. Alphonso Citro (Kelly) looked for her
almost a week, and at last saw her going from a store to this home,
where she was staying. He went to the house and demanded at the point
of a revolver that she be given up, as he said:

"I am losing money every day she is gone."

"There was a quarrel over the girl during which some people from the
outside were attracted to the house by the commotion. Citro, becoming
frightened, fled down the street, and as he ran, threw away the
revolver with which he had tried to shoot the father of the barber
during the quarrel, over the fence into a coal yard. After running
two blocks, he was caught and arrested. Upon these facts this
procurer, Citro, alias Kelly, was prosecuted and found guilty under
the new pandering law of Illinois, and received a sentence of one
year of imprisonment and a fine of five hundred dollars. The poor
father and mother, distressed and heart-broken, were in Court during
the trial with their arms around each other, sobbing with joy because
their little girl had been found. Pizza[3], the owner of the place,
was indicted by the State grand jury, but escaped to Italy. This case
is told to show how girls leave home upon the promise of securing
employment and are in this way procured for places of ill-repute."