Hearing screams in
the assignation house at 42A Belding street, he made his way up
stairs, accompanied by two or three citizens. The screams were
coming from a room on the second floor. Duffey promptly battered
the door down only to be met by a furious assault from Armstrong,
who was intoxicated and extremely violent.
"A savage hand-to-hand struggle took place, in which furniture was
broken, the policeman badly injured and two of the volunteers
knocked out. Armstrong was finally subdued, however, by the
jiu-jitsu method, in which Duffey is an expert, and was lodged in
the Central Station, together with the woman.
"According to her statement, the man, Armstrong, had not only been
guilty of grossly immoral practices with her, but had also been
trying to force her to share with him the proceeds of her life of
shame, thus making out against him a clear case under the Mann
White-Slave Traffic law. She has material evidence of this
fact--money which he had given her, to finance her till she could
begin bringing in revenue to him, and also his name and address,
written by his own hand.
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