Los Angeles, July 21 (AP)—Doctor H.B. Allen, said to be the founder and superintendent of a girl’s school at Sabot, Virginia, was arrested at his Hollywood residence yesterday on an indictment charging him with a violation of the Mann act in transporting one of his 57 adopted daughters from Sabot to Pittsburgh. Justice department agents who arrested Allen also took into custody a woman who said she was his housekeeper and two younger women who stated they were his adopted daughters.
According to officials, Allen founded a school for girls in North Carolina 14 years ago, and later moved the institution to Sabot, Va., legally adopting the girls in his care.
From the front page of the Tri-City Daily Gazette, Leaksville, N.C., Saturday, July 21, 1923. The Mann Act, also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, criminalizes the transportation of any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral act, according to www.law,cornell.edu/wex/mann_act.
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