Bingham - The Girl That Disappears

In 1911, Bingham wrote The Girl That Disappears, the Real Facts about the White Slave Traffic. In this book, he related the sinister facts regarding the thousands of young girls that disappeared every year from their homes in the cities or those who left their homes on the farm or small town to go to the city. Often, their families never heard from them again.

By the turn of the century, local police officers were disturbed over the incidence of increasing crime, especially in the large urban areas. In September 1908, Theodore A. Bingham, the New York City Police Commissioner (1905-1909), wrote an article for the North American Review, entitled “Foreign Criminals in New York.” His article described the increase in gambling, prostitution and drugs on the Lower East Side, attributing it to Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants.226

He used the Secret Service in an attempt to quash crime and eradicate the Black Hand in that area. When he became commissioner, he said, “From this moment on, the goal of my life shall be to crush the Black Hand and to destroy these vile foreign criminals who have come to disrupt the serenity of our peaceful land.”227

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), then known as the Publicity Committee of the B’nai B’rith, condemned Bingham, one of their first targets, and accused him of anti-Semitism and of “maligning Jews” even though he focused his efforts against all criminal activity. Ultimately, his enemies succeeded in toppling him as police commissioner. Arnold Rothstein, the son of a garment manufacturer, headed racketeering in New York after the ADL eliminated Bingham’s influence.228 They also got rid of Petrosino*. Members of New York’s Black Hand followed him to Palermo and, on March 12, 1909, shot and killed Bingham’s chief detective. He had traveled to Italy to gain the cooperation of the police there to inhibit the anarchist activities of the Black Hand, working jointly in the United States and Italy. The New York Herald had published the story of Petrosino’s mission on February 20, 1909, just before his departure.229 Apparently, someone deliberately leaked the story to the newspaper.

Because of the human trafficking emanating from New York, key Jewish families in the United States, Germany, France, and Britain held a meeting, the Jewish International Convention on the Suppression of the Traffic in Girls and Women, in London in April 1910. Arthur R. Moro, the keynote speaker, presented an account describing the association of Jewish gangsters in the worldwide prostitution and white slave trade.230 He described how Jewish prostitution, by 1901, existed in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Lourenco Marques, Beira, and Salisbury. In 1903, a Jewish teacher reported the scandalous traffic by Jews of Jewesses in Alexandria, Cairo, and Port Said. Jewish prostitutes were more numerous than Greek, Italian, and French prostitutes. Moses Levi, the Chief Rabbi, in Constantinople (1872-1908) revealed that agents openly trafficked prostitutes and had their own synagogue.231

* Lt. Joseph Petrosino Murder, http://www.gangrule.com/events/petrosino-murder-1909 as of May 2012
226 Executive Intelligence Review, The Ugly Truth About the ADL, Washington DC, 1992, pp. 26-28 227 Lt. Joseph Petrosino Murder, http://www.gangrule.com/events/petrosino-murder-1909 as of May 2012
228 Theodore Alfred Bingham, The Girl that Disappears: The Real Facts about the White Slave Traffic, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1911, pp. 6-10
229 Executive Intelligence Review, The Ugly Truth About the ADL, Washington DC, 1992, pp. 28-31 230 Ibid. 26-28
231 Ibid. 28-31 232

from the book The Ruling Elite The Zionist Seizure of World Power by Deanna Spingola