Ocean County , NJ History

 New Jersey Courier 10 Apr 1914

From the Tuckerton Beacon, June 12, 1914 CHARGES SHE WAS A WHITE SLAVE Asbury Park, June 6 --- A rather good looking young woman who says she is Mrs. Raymond Miller, colored, but who the police say is a white girl from a Forked River family, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail in the city court this morning as a disorderly person. Detective Sergeant Broderick told Judge Borden the girl had been supporting Raymond Miller, a west side negro, by the money she made on the streets. Miller did no work, and lived with the girl in a three room bungalow on Borden Avenue. The girl said she had been married to Miller last June in Belmar by a Hamilton justice whose name she could not remember. She said she was colored because her father had been a Cuban. She declared that she had left Miller when he tried to force her to a life of shame in order to support him. She had obeyed him, she declared, until she sickened of it. Beside Miller, there was a second man in the Borden Avenue ho