(DOWNLOAD) "Hilliard v. United States." by United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Hilliard v. United States.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Release Date : January 21, 1941
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Hughes Robert Hilliard, the appellant in this case, was defendant in the District Court and was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $10,000, under an indictment which charged that in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 400, he induced and coerced Stella Vaughan, a girl under the age of eighteen years, to go from Bristol, Virginia, to New York City to engage in prostitution. The girl testified in substance as follows: In May, 1939, she and an older sister met Hilliard at Bristol and Marion, Virginia, where they were operating a concession at a traveling carnival. He visited the carnival several times and asked Stella Vaughan to go to New York to work in a restaurant which he owned, picturing a life of easy work and plenty of money, with freedom to return to Virginia at will. She had had some domestic difficulties, and, on this account, did not wish to return to her home at Wytheville, Virginia. Instead she went to Bristol and took a room in a hotel, where she was joined by Hilliard who forced her to go to his room and spend the night with him. The next morning she secured some of her clothing from her room, put it in his bag and left Bristol for New York in his automobile. They passed through Wytheville and stopped at Roanoke. There he gave her twenty dollars to buy clothing, and she went shopping alone, and waited for him in one shop from 3 to 9:30 P.M. That night they spent in a tourist cabin. The next day he took her to Lynchburg, where he telehoned the Cadillac Hotel in New York, and told two girls, "Inez" and "Bobby", to meet her at the railroad station in New York. He gave her a railroad ticket and put her on the New York train. On the way she spent two hours alone in Washington. She was met in New York by two girls named Bobby Jenson and Inez Kelly Hilliard, the defendants wife. They explained that she would have to lead a life of prostitution or starve, and took her to the Cadillac Hotel where, on the following day and the next two weeks, she was so engaged. She then became sick. Hilliard, who in the meantime had reached New York, took her to a doctor and then to his apartment. After an interval of two weeks she was taken back to the hotel and resumed the practice of prostitution. During all of this time she was coerced by the defendant, acting in concert with the other girls, and turned over all of her earnings to him.Finally in September, after he had struck her with a shoe for leaving the hotel alone, she escaped with the assistance of an elevator boy, and returned to her home in Virginia using for the purpose some money he had given her to pay her room rent.