Foreign News: Canadian Slavers

According to Scotland Yard and the French Surete Nationale, M. Roger Marcel Vernon, one of the few white slavers ever to escape from Devil's Island and resume slaving, flew from Paris to London last week with trusted henchmen to supervise the murder of "Ginger Max" Kassel.

Slaver Kassel had operated largely in London, setting up girls sent over by M. Vernon each in her own discreet Mayfair flat. Each paid from $250 to $500 to obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his...

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