Suslak

Suslak, the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted of violating the White Slave Act (Act June 25, 1910, c. 395, 36 Stat. 825 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1343]), and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine and costs. The indictment contains 12 counts, all relating to the going of a woman named Grace Beal from Spokane, Wash., to Butte, Mont., on the 5th day of January, 1912. In the first count the charge is that defendant and one Max Fried, jointly indicted with him, caused the woman to be transported for the purpose of prostitution. In the second count unlawful cohabitation is designated as the purpose; in the third count, debauchery; in the fourth, an intent to induce her to become a prostitute; and, in the fifth, an intent to induce her to give herself up to debauchery. In the sixth, seventh, and eighth counts the charge is that the defendant procured for her her railroad ticket; the intent or purpose alleged being either prostitution (sixth count), or debauchery (seventh count), or to induce her to give herself up to debauchery (eighth count). In counts 9 and 10 the charge is of persuading and inducing her to come to Butte for the…