The evening world. Newspaper, August 1, 1912, Page 6

WOMAN DETECTIVE TELLS OF PLOT 10 Mrs. Bassi, White Slave Investi- gator, Says She Escaped a Rosenthal Conspiracy. LOVED ‘SPANISH LOUIS.’ Summoned Before Grand Jury, She Says, to Tell of Tenderloin Graft. ‘When Mrs. Marie Mason Bassi waiked tereagh the Tenderloin to-lay, painted women of the streets turned and quist- ly cursed her, They remembered the weman who “converted” “Spanish Lewis” Bassi three years ago and took him before the Federal Grand Jury, with the result that twenty notorious traffickers in women went to Federa) Penitentiaries. They quietly cursed her, @aié they hoped the next attempt to kill her would prove successful. The fret attempt, made last night, three hours after Mre, Bassi atrived in New Yerk from Boston to aid in the effort te uncover police graft, was foiled only Decause the little woman kept her nerve ‘with her. “The plan to kill me Boston,” she said to-éa; shadowed from the instant I left the Central depot. | t |, followed for three hours, ked by a man in @ hallway West Twenty-seventh street yy. The assailant tried des iy to garrote her. She struggied tore from his grasp. Then, as © " he seized her purse, containing fled. Two hours later, a de to whom she appealed followed cate in Weat Twenty-eighth Grrested a man whom she Before Magistrate Corr!- the man, who gave the ix Boserguer of No, Ul treet, denied his guilt, ja without ball on the charge 4 was committed to the await the action of the Grand ts sf a 3 ee] gar ry i i H a fh rk i STIGATED WHITE GLAVE TRAFFIC HERE. Bvening World reporter, Mrs. to-day told the following remark- story of the underworld and her Ha #] 5 ia its . first husband was George W. of » Rephew of the of the Pullman Palace Car Company. We had three children. He & widow some years ago. 1909, I was employed by the Wo- uM League to investigate * traMo in New York, things I learned were horrible. fnvestigation the Federal lf: wae slain by gam- because they feared CF him, He was attracted by jiked him. Z @mally com he future. H ih | F JAPIRO WAS HIS BEST FRIEND. one child, now two ani a old, It was called Frances I toved it dearly, But soon ite birth I learned that my hus band had nop reformed. He was back in the oi crowd all the time, and I could do nothing with him. One of his best friends was Shapiro, the man who drove the murder car that carried the slayers of Rosenthal. “Two years ago ‘Spanish Louis’ de- ? I followed him there and had the baby sent to a nursing home, where my husband sup- porte it. I do not live with my hus band, but always communicate with him. He is assistant headwatter in Maxim's Cafe in Buston, “My husband's real name ts Louis Vincent Bassi of the House of Far- rarrie. He is really of a titled Italian to all the r family. pier tn ry big gambler in New him I learned how closely the gamblers are allied with the white slavers. Phere is an absolute bend between them. If they break up the gamblers they will break up the ‘waite slavers, “Once my husband went to Panama with a woman whom he claimed as his wife. Later they summoned from New ASSASSIATEHER: to annist In showing up this graft of the police on women of the underworld, M husband found that I waa coming ap he Was furious. He ordered me » to come, I did, nevertheless, Thre nthal ago, I took a gambler known to the District-Attorney's was ready to give the Diatriet-Attorney a complete Jule of prices demanded by 5 the poor girls of the underwe was ready to tell all the ramifications Jof the white slavers, and to give names. | Mr. Wt 1s, an Asnistant Dintrict-At- torney, told us that the police were not then under investigation, but he took our addresses, so we could be summoned when such an investigation was made I was ordered to-day to appear before the Grand Jury. .I shall tell them that @ Prenchman was the collector for police from the women in the French district, and I shall prove all my charges. SAYS GIRLS ARE ASSESSED DOL- LAR A DAY. “The poor little girls who waik the atreeta are ansessed $1 @ day cach. This money goes to the police of the district THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1912. DREAM WINS RACE TO BERMUDA WITH ~— GREW EXHAUSTED vo. te Motorboat Has Hard Struggte| on Stormy Run—No Trace of Kathemma,. Her Rival. HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 1.—The motor-boat Dream, which Saturday left Philadeiphia in a speed teat with the Kathemma, to-day was declared winner of the Bermuda Challenge Trophy and $1,000 cash prize. When the Dream ar- rived off Bt. David's Head at 9.30 o'cloes last having made the run Phil a In the elapsed time hours, minutes and five secon: To-day the Dream proceeded on to the port. and they make whatever ‘cuts’ are made, The girls who live in the houses throughout the district are ansested $3 a day ench. In most canca thin money te actually paid to the owners of the houses in which they live, and by them turned over to the police. “Why, when I was investigating the white save traMc a big real estate dealer offered to rent me a house for improper purposes for $0 a month. His lef inducement to me was that this $20 a month included ‘police protection," which he would pay, and thus save me from having to pay the collector.” Mra, Bassi, a amall, keen eyed woman, with hair just tarning gray, deolared to- day she expected to give District-Attor- ney Whitman other sensational evidence of police graft on the women of the Tendertoin. VIE rape ree $2 KILLED, 259 HURT IN STREETS LAST MONTH. Autos Responsible for Twice as Many Accidents as Trolley Cars, The report of the National Highways Protective Society of persona killed and injured by vehicular traiic on tie atreets of New York City for the month of July, 1912, shows that thirty-two were killed and 2% injured. Automobiles Allied twenty-one and hurt 168; trolley care killed twelve and injured aixty; wagons killed nineteen and injured thirty-one, Of the number killed, thirty were ohil- Gren under sixteen years of age, autos killing eleven, trolley care and wagons eleven. For the corresponding month of last year automobiles killed nineteen and in- Jured eighty-one; trolley cars killed thirteen and injured ninety-nine; waguns killed twenty-one and Injured thirty-five, uf this number, twenty were children undor stxteon yeare of age, five, trolley cars and wagot During July, 1912, on the streets arft highways of New York State, exclusive of New York City, thirty-one persons were killed and 227 injured. Accidents on highway rallroad grade crossings in New York State during July, 1912, were as follows: Five killed and thirteen wagons were Ww: and ten autos demolished, There were no trolley car accidents. The soclety advocates a law compell- (ng auton and wagons to slow down when approaching street car and rail- road lines, #o that they can come to a full stop In case of danger. — wallewse Ite Own Finger, @ Safety Pin, Amy Fleer, four, left alone in Phila- delphia, bit off the end of her little Qnger and swallowed it. About the same time Edna Spain, eight months old, swallowed « safety pin. Both objects lodged in the windpipe | | Ome Chi and doctors had to cut them open to ave the children's lives, mont RY BALT The Dream, which had a time allow- ance of 14 hours 14 minutes 24 seconds from the Kathemma, the only other competitor in the race, came in sight of land at 7.2 last evening. She had made @ rough passage during the whole run of 719 nautical miles and was com- pelled to hove to on M y for several hours. ‘The crew of the Dream, consisting of Walter M. Biellng, John Sprouse, Fred D. Biddle, George EB. Goldbeck and Thomas La arrived In an exhausted condition. ever, after & short perio om to race back to Phi Nothing has been heard of the Kath- emma. CASTE 5 (rom the Washinigon Star.) “Father,” said the amall boy, “what ts @ Panatela cigar?” “A Panatela, my son, 1s @ Pittsburgh] and the other electors, stogie's rich relation.” | | LEGAL WAR OVER KANSAS ELECTOR S BROUGHT HERE U. S. Supreme Court Justices Hear Arguments in Suit to Oust T. R. Men. The Meht to keep off the official Repub- lican ballots In Kansaa the names of Samuel A. Davis and seven others, nom- inated as regular electors of the party, but now said to be openly declaring an Intention to vote for Tieodore Roose velt if they get a chance, was trana- ferred to-day to New York Associate Justices Van Devanter and Pitney of the United States Supreme Court heard arguments at the Federal Building on @ petition for leave to bring the matter before the United States Supreme Court. Congressman M, EF. Olmsted of Penn- slyvania made the argument for the Taft side. With him was assoctated D. R. Hite, a Kansas lawyer, Congress- man F. 8. Jackson and L. 8. Kipling of Kansas appeared for the electors, who now threaten to ditch Taft Mr. Olmsted started to read a long brief, but was interrupted by Justice dispense with that,” sald Justice Pitney. “Just tell us in plain English the merits of the caso," SAYS THEY ARE NOT REAL REPUBLICANS. The lawyer then stated that Davis although Re- publican nominees, were really members We Can Save You Money ALB. Nba With BABBITT’S PEAS The Great FOR OVER 50 YEARS BB umoreR" POTATOES 2: 30° LARGE AND MEALY eee ee ee eee a nem A Fly Killer FREE SOAP, 7 «=: 25¢ PURE LARD, 2»: 25¢ TOMATOES @ sweet and tender, HERRING, Atlantic & Pacific 400 Stores in the U.S. These prices for Metropolitan Dis*r'ct only ee.) Nw Nee N=S ~ AUNTER IMORE R A PECK | S No. 3 ws 10¢ 2 cans BHC KIPPERED, 5¢ very economical, a can ASK THE CLERK. Tea Co. igh prices and tronciad conditions, Proof ef our straightforward ne out by the fact that we ure one of the largest furniture and carpet die- | Setbupers im the country. 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