CHARGES SHE WAS A WHITE SLAVE

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Found this story in the Tuckerton Beacon of 12 Jun 1914.

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 suupport him. She had obeyed him, she declared, until she sickened of it.

Beside Miller, there was a second man in the Borden Avenue house whom the police knew as "Johnny". Detective Sergeant Broderick wanted to question "Johnny" yesterday but he got away when the sergeant approached the house, being warned by the Miller girl.

Justice Borden told the prisoner she looked ill and worn out and told her he sent her to jail more to give her an opportunity to rest than as a punishment
Location: Asbury Park, NJ, USA

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