Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1914 — CAUGHT IN WHITE SLAVE CASE. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT IN WHITE SLAVE CASE.

Montmorenci Man and 17-Year-Okl Girl Arrested in Chicago. Lafayette, Ind., May 11.—Mrs. James McCormick, 17 years old, and Joseph Humphrey, of Montmorenci, Ind., were arrested in Chicago today alter the police in that city had received a request from the Lafayette police department to arrest Humphrey and the girl. The couple left their homes this morning and made the trip from Montmorenci to Fowler by automobile. At Fowler they boarded a train for Chicago. The absence of the girl was noticed by her father, J. B. Littleton, and he notified the Lafayette police. An officer from the local department was sent to Chicago tonight to bring the couple back to this county’ and an affidavit charging Humphrey with violation of the Mann “white Slave" act probably will be filed. Mrs. McCormick was formerly Ada B. Littleton and was one of the principals in the sensational case of the state against McCbrinick in the Tippecanoe circuit court last year. McCormick procured a marriage license to marry the girl and then told her that they had gone through the necessary form. He lived with her several weeks and returned the marriage license to the county clerk, saying that he had procured it for a joke and that he wanted his money back. An investigation followed and McCormick was arrested. The Littleton girl said that she believed that she was married to McCormick and that he had acknowledged her as his wife. The charge prosecuted against McCormick was seduction and he was cleared of this charge by a jury in the circuit court. The court, nevertheless, found thht the couple were legally’ man and wife, as they had agreed to live together and had acknowledged as much before witnesses. The court added that Ada Littleton was the common law wife of aJmes McCormick. Since the trial McCormick and the girl have been living apart. McCormick is a large Tippecanoe county land owner.