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Order Number	00095049
Title	Charles Montgomery and Bristol Barrett, White Slave Ring trial
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 8912
Date	1940
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Photograph also used in article dated July 8, 1940.
Historical Data	On April 22, 1940 a white slave ring operating from Los Angeles, but spanning from El Centro to Seattle, was uncovered when a young woman, an intended victim by the name of Maxine Rayle called LAPD Sheriff, Captain Walter Hunter to say she and another woman were being held captive and gave an address where they could be found. When police raided the location, they arrested two men and one woman on suspicion of pandering - they were identified as: 43-year-old Charles W. "Monty" Montgomery, leader of the operation; 21-year-old Bristol Barrett, in charge of finding, wooing, and luring the young women; and 33-year-old Ann Forst, aka Anne Forrester "The Black Widow", an asserted key figure in booking girls and placing them in disorderly and ill-reputed houses. It was discovered that Ann Forst ran multiple houses of prostitution, promising girls net incomes of $300-$400 a month. Evidence indicated that approximately 200 women made up Forst's white slave ring. Montgomery and Barrett were charged; though it is not known how much time they served. Also indicted were Tim Tullis, an accomplice of the slave ring; Dolly Dupree, operator of one of the houses in San Bernardino; and Serena Peine, who served one year for pandering. Ann Forst (birth name Almerdell [sic] Forrester) was booked on pandering charges and spent 3 or 4 years of a 1 to 10 year sentence at the women's prison in Tehachapi. She moved up north upon her release and then to Arizona and Nevada, where she ran highway motels with her husband. Forst died in obscurity in 1998.
Description	Photograph caption dated April 30, 1940 reads, "Accused of pandering, Charles Montgomery, 42, left, and Bristol Barrett, 21, are shown as they were brought to Grand Jury headquarters, where Miss Burns told of being kept a prisoner by the two men, who assertedly placed her in a house of ill fame."
Subject	Trials (Prostitution)--California--Los Angeles. Procuresses--California--Los Angeles. Prostitution--California--Los Angeles. Accomplices--California--Los Angeles. Trials--California--Los Angeles. Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection