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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3430, 6 September 1913, Page 4

UNDER WHITE SLAVE ACT.

Pleading guilty at London Sessions, to offences under the White Slave Act, committeed at a flat in Piccadilly Quoenio Gerald, twenty-six, described as an actress, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in the second division, and was ordered to pay the costs of the case.

Mr Travers Humphreys said Gerald was changed with having exercised control, direction, and influence over three young girls in such a manner as to show that she was aiding and abetting their immorality. The offence was a very serious one from the point of view of the prosecution, and it was, so far as lie knew, thd first case at these sessions, in which a woman had been tried under the Act of Parliament (Criminal Law Amendment Act, , Under the Act women for certain offences were placed in the same position as men. In this case it was fair and right to say that the evidence of the three girls employed by the prisoner went to show that they lived lives of a certain character before they met Gerald, The sum of £2Ol was found on th’e woman’s premises—£116 in gold and the rest in notes, so that it wasi evident, lie said, that she was in a very affluent position.