New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1916, Page 10

0 NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1916. AVERS’ ATTEMPT REIGN OF TERROR to Fire Girls’ Home to In- timidate Witnesses 80.—The Florence at 427 West whither several s figuring the white slave in- have been sent by the district few York, den Aug. Home, nty-first street, in rney, had a fire a week ago today, cause of which was set down as known.” Since then investigators e found reasan to believe that the hes were started by a young man ured as a member of a ring ficking in women on the lower East P, and detectives are now search- for him. His object is supposed ave been to terrorize the girls In home and to scare them into re- Rl to tell about the operations of men who preyed on them. e fire was trifling, but it caused nty-five girls to run into the street stay there until firemen put it It has been learned that the ng gangster against whom sus- on is directed s hanging about front door before the alarm w en. He is or was a end of one the girls who has testified before grand jury 1 the women and girls who ga to office of the district attorney are ¢ being accompanied to their hres or the missions that shelter m by detectives. This is for pro- inst men who have threat- d the ‘hree more alleged white slavers e indicted vesterday, but as they o not been arrested yet their jnes cannot be published. One of m, a fur dealer, was known as a spectable business man.” A second fotment was also returnedq against 1d P: known as Siberia, who n the Tombs. Since the investga. began there have been thirty in- ftments, involving twenty men. Parrish was named by a grand jury fness yesterday as a man who had her in the way of evi] when she | 16 years old. She is now 19—a | ow haired, blue eyed girl whose jneliness has not been destroyed. said she w standing on the op of her home in the East Side evening watching the return of a y of excursionists who had been & boat ride. They were eating pdy and frolicking. A middle ed man, who she says she knew er as Siberia, stopped and said to r: “Don’t you ever go on these rties?”” She replied that her par- s were too poor. iberia, she says, talked to her “like athe nd said he would see that had as good a time as the other Is. The next day he invited her to room. Presently the fatherly mask s thrown off. He put her into a 1se in Allen street where he said she ild make a lot of money. After o days of this life she rebelled and eria took her to the theatre, pro- fled her with a place to rest and Pn sent her back. After a year and half, during which time, she says, beria took her earnings, she w ned over to other proprietors. One of these was a pickpocket now ving six months on Blackwell’s Is- d for selling heroin. The girl said le learned to use the drug and that r owner made money by selling it other girls. Eventually she fell into e hands of a gambler who forced r to work the streets. This gambier one of the men indicted yesterday. Seeks Daughter in Slavery. One of the mothers who sought out sistant District Attorney Smith yes- rday was Mrs. Ida Silberstein of ffolk street. She brought a picture her dauhter Ida, who she said was n slavery”. In May, 1915, s Iberstein, the girl passed her six- enth birthday and was taken away a group of young men who pro- sed to malke a motion picture actress her. One of these men, the mother id, was Yushe Botwin, who was in- icted early in the present investig on. “They took her,” said Mrs. Silber- in, “to a studio in New Jersey and at evening she brought me $4.50 out It $5 she had been paid. The next day o said she earned $5 more and told e the movie people were going to ke her to California. But they idn’t. The next I saw of her was in Second avenue cafe. She told me lhe was more than 16 and her own poss -and would not come home. I ave seen her often since then. She ls in the hands of a man who has heaten me twice for interfering.” This case is being investigated, as he District Attorney demands corro- orative evidence before going to the rand Jury. A woman with a somewhat similar Ltory was Mrs. Kathrina Boland of tford avenue, Brooklyn. She said daughter, 17 vears old, was car- bout & year ago by a man e address the mother » Mr ‘was Smity uld learn,” that 1 of the Russia and and Mrs. Boland daughter was I came here have tried to live bring up the chil- dren The man ‘who stole my daug lived w wife in the same house we did.’ She names of three other girls disappearance she blan Anothe fice w was a a man @isorderly him. “Ife said we would he married when [ had saved enough,” she said. “When f had saved $700 he took the money and went into business. Fe was mar- ried last March, and then he had the nerve to come around to me with a scheme for robbing men. He said he haa aiscovered a drug which he would put in T was to give the gars to men and go through their said, taken from R decent out city. decently. er his e the whose man tor to Mr. Smith’s of- Diamond, who said she She complained of ald put her into a earn money for lin she m who hous cigars ei- New Britain Young Woman to Enter Missionary Field in Far East This Fall— Ceremonies at Swedish Lutheran Church. Miss Holtzhauser of thig city will be Lutheran missionary service in India, on Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock, in the Swedish Lutheran church. Miss Holtzhauser is a faithful member of the English Lutheran church of the Reformation, Hungerford Court, Trederick Charles Wunder, pastor. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Holtzhauser of 852 Burritt street. She spent the past year in special missionary preparation at the Mary J. DrexeM Lutheran Deaconess Home and Motherhouse, and at the German Lutheran hospital, in Phila- delphia, and several weeks af study in New York city., She is a graduate of the public schools of Connecticut, and of the New Britain High school. For the past several years she has been Margaret M. commissioned for MISS HOLTZHAUSER TO RECEIVE COMMISSION TO INDIA SUNDAY | holding a responsible position at the Stanley Works. Her varied experi- ences make her well fitted for her work. For the first two years in India she will be chiefly occupied with the study of the Telugu language at Rajahmun- dry, in the Godavari River district of South East India. This district is about as large as the state of Connec- ticut, and is in charge of the Gen- eral Council of the American Lu- theran church. This fleld was opened in 1842 by Father John Christian Frederick Heyer, who was then 47 vears old. At present there are thirty-four Lutheran missionaries and more than 500 native helpers in the district. Miss Holtzhauser will be one of five mare to be sent out by the General Council this fall. All the Lutheran churches in this vicinity have been invited to par- tiolpate in this service. Dr. George Drach of Philadelphia, general secre- tory of the General Council Lutheran Foreign Missions, will perform the act of commissjoning, and the Reverend $. G. Youngert, D. D., of Hartford will deliver the address. Miss Holtzhauser will tell of her mission, and Pastor Wunder will make the farewéll ad- dress. There will be special singing. To this service of inspiration the pub- lic is cordially invited. pockets when the drug knocked them out. Then I was to throw the money out of the window and he was to be down below to catch it. 1 Te- fused. Paid Him $300 a Month. “I had worked for this man two years. He took me from a millinery store where I was getting $10 a week and under promise of marriage I made $300 a month for him.” This man is the fur merchant indicted yes- terday. A process server told Mr. Smith yes terday that in Allen street between Stanton and Rivington streets he was approached by five girls in the course of a few minutes on Monday night. He said he served subpoenas on two irls while they were chatting with the plain clothes policemen. The department of immigration has arranged to co-operate with the dis trict attorney and the police in trying to stop white slavery. If they are not citizens, and few of them are, any person convicted can be deported. Mr. Smith questioned yesterday a physician who was supposed to know whether or not there is a ring of phy sicians who perform illegal opera- tion. ‘What Mr. Smith found out was not divulged. The committee of twelve social workers which has been formed to help the district attorney in his cru- sade will visit him at 3 o’clock th afternoon. It is headed by Mrs. Wil- llam Grant Brown. APPROVE SALE OF D. W. I, Legislature of Santa Cruz Adopts Re- solutions Urging ransfer of Island to United States by Denmark. S8t, Thomas, D. W. I, Aug. 30.— The legislature of Santa Cruz has adopted and cabled to the Danish government at Copenhagen a resolu- tion favoring sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The colonial council of St. Thomas and St. John already has taken similar action. The resolution adopted by the Santa Cruz legislature follows: “The colonial council unanimously request the min- ister to hasten the negotiations toward ratification of the treaty with the United States, which is the only means of relieving the intolerable and ruinous state of affairs on this island. There is no hope otherwise of rectifying our condition in the future. GOY. JOHNSON LEADS Has Safe Margin Over Booth of “Old Guard” in Race for G. O. P. Sen- atorial Nomination in California. 30.—On from San Francisco, Cal, Aug. the face of returns early tod: about half of the precincts in the state, Governor Hiram W. Johnson won the republican nomination for United States senator ov William H. Booth at yesterday's primary. Out of a total of 5,448 precincts, 2,- 759 gave Booth 75,353; Johnson 562. The campaign attracted wide in- terest because Chester H. Rowell of Fresno, a member of the republican national campaign committee, pro- tested to the committee and to Charles E. Hughes, republican nomi- nee for president, that the forces of the republican state central commit- teo were aligned openly, although not officially, behind Mr. Booth, a Los Angeles business man. s SWEDISH STEAMERS SEIZED. Two Captured by German Warships and Taken to Port. London, Aug. 30, 10:46 a. m.—The Swedish steamers Roslagen 1,394 tons, of Stockholm, and the Tor, have been selzed by German torpedo boat de- stroyers and taken southward, say a Lloyds dispatch from Copenhagen. Three steamers named Tor are listea in the Marine Registers, two of which are small vessels while the third, 1,027 tons, hails from Stockholm. WEATHER FORECAST. New Haven, Aug. 30.—For New Ha- ven and vicinity: Generally fair to- night and Thursday. For Connecticut: Generally fair tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature; light southwest to west winds. Con- ditions favor for this vieinity fair weather and not much damage In tem- Nuerax ure. ITALY'S REASONS Finance Minister Says Cause for De- claring War on Germany Was to Have Voice in Peace Negotiations, Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 29, via Paris, Aug. 30, 5:30 a. m.—Finance Minister Medab, who represents the Roman Catholic party in the cabinet but was speaking officially for the Ttalian government, said tonight: “The main reason why Italy declared war on Germany is that unless she did so she would not have had an equal voice with Great Britain and France in the peace negotiations. “Furthermore, Roman Catholics, who for a time stood for neutrality, now realize the purpose of the war is to establish the force of right over the right of force. “It is an with the coming of peace the desires of the pacifists will be realized; en age. 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The physicians who at- tended her expressed the opinion that her physical condition became im- | paired as a result of many festivities arranged by her friends after the an- | nouncement, leaving her unable to combat the disease. Miss Nickerson was active in athle- tics. She had given largely to Rhode Island charities. About a month ago she presented a hydro-aeroplane to the aviation corps of the Rhode Island National Guard. TOWNSEND NOMINATED, Returns in Michigan Show Has Safe Lead. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 30.—Additional from yesterday’'s state-wide primary increased the majority of | United States Senator Charles E. Townsend, republican, and his renom. ination was conceded today. Albert E. Sleeper was leading for the republican nomination for gover- nor. Luren D. Dickinson was renom- inated for lleutenant governor. There were no democratic contests for these offices. It was considered quite certain that all but one of Michigan's congressmen seeking renomination were victorious. Representative George A. Loud of the tenth district was the doubtful one. Senator WOMAN BOUND OVER. Mrs. Zara Unable to Furnish Bond of $5,000. Willimantic, Aug. 30.—On a charge | of assault with intent to murder her husband, Diega Zara was held for trial in the superior court after a hearing in the police court today. Tn fault of $5,000 bonds, she was manded to jail to await trial. Zara, who was shot through the left lung Monday, is in a critical condition at the hospital. de- re- | POSTPONE CONVENTION. | Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 30.— second annual convention of the sociation of American Secretaries of State, which was to have opened in Topeka, Kas., next Friday, has been | | postponed, according to an an- nouncement made here by Stewart F. Reed, president of the organiz tion. The changes in plans. he snm_i was due principally to the threatened Iroad strike. No other date has | been selected. The | As- | | of the | vear. 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There will be new and novel demonstrations by state institutions at the fair this onnecticut Agricultural col- is making up a new display will differ greatly from any exhibit. The Connecticut cxperimental station will arrange a different exposition. Ladies will be specially interested in ‘the canning and preserving demonstrations by the state extension service. President Jarvis, § Gwat- kin and Superintendent Gre: went. to Oxford, Mass., today on important business in connection with the fair. Grieat progress is being made by a departments. Jarvis and lege which previous = = Organized Watch for Hotel Essex Gun- man to Be Maintained Throughout Nation by Waiters and Cooks. Boston, Aug. 30.—Search for Stell Zacharach, a waiter, charged by the police with the murder on Monday of Charles W. Cranney, head waiter of the Hotel Essex, became nation-wide today with the enlistment of seventy thousand organized waiters and cooks in the hunt. 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