Several young women have recently been kidnapped (handbill)

              AS
SEVERAL YOUNG WOMEN
HAVE RECENTLY BEEN
KIDNAPPED
OR ALLURED TO THE CONTINENT, AND THERE
Detained Against their Will,
THE FOLLOWING
FRIENDLY WARNINGS
ARE ADDRESSED TO
RESPECTABLE YOUNG WOMEN
DO NOT enter into Conversation with Strangers in Railway Stations or Carriages, Steamboats, or other Public Places.
NEVER accept Presents from a Stranger.
NEVER allow a Stranger to treat you to Drink (it may be drugged).
DO NOT follow the guidance of a Stranger. Enquire of a Railway Porter or Policeman.
NEVER go alone to strange Lodging-houses. Better stop at Railway Waiting-rooms. The Police can generally recommend you to a respectable house.
NEVER go alone to answer an Advertisement, or to apply for a Situation. Take some safe friend with you.
IN ANY DIFFICULTY,
Apply to the POLICE; or, if Abroad, to the BRITISH CONSUL. If on board ship, put yourself under the protection of the CAPTAIN.
"Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." — PROV. iii. 5.
Copies of this Handbill can be procured at the Office of "The Christian," 12, Paternoster Buildings, London, price 2s. per 100; Large Placards, 1s. 6d. per dozen. Subscriptions to defray expense of these "Friendly Warnings" are respectfully solicited.