The evening world., 1894-07-24
VICTIM OF CHINESE.
Daisy Toby's Case May Cause a
Change in Pell Street.
lured to a Den and He'd There
Practically a Prisoner.
Now In Hospital in "a Critical
Condition.

Lured into Chinese den by the
woman she thought her friend, druEged
and abused by Cinnamon, compelled to
submit to all kinds OF indignitics, res
cued by missionary, and now lying in
precarious condition on a cot in st.
Nincents Hospital, is part of the story
of pretty seventeen-year-old Daisy Toby
which the police of this city, as well as
Brooklyn, will be called upon to investl-
gate within the next twenty-four hours
The girl was not. decoyed to the Chi
hese den, as a first reported. by a flash
i'y dressed woman, whom she met by
chance on the street. On the contrary,
the woman had known her we'll
Five years ago. when Daisy's mother
died, her father broke up their home
and the young girl went to live with a
married sister in Bedford avenue Brook
I.n, near the Amphion Academy. The
father was away from home good deal
and besides he was inclined to be in
temperate. The child was SO bright and
pretty that she attracted the attention
OF Mrs. M!ntonye, the city Missionary
of Brooklyn. The mission is in Bed
ford avenue. nearly opposite where the
'robys lived, and Daisy was a frequent
visitor.
Mrs. Mntonye took the girl into her
class, taught her how to read nd write
ana TO sew and to knit. For nearly five
Years the girl continued as "A pupil.
linen the missionary put her to teach
the, other children. Although too large
% b" in the class with The other girls.
Daisy was not unusually tall for her
age. In fact, she was little more than
four feet ten inches.
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home was another young girl whom no
one seems to know by any other name
than Julia. The latter, it is said. was
inclined TO be wild. and some time ago
with 'hinaman. She told Daisy she
was married to the Celestial, and the
latter believed her.
Daisy wanted to go out in the world to
work, and when one day in June last
she met Julia, who seemed particularly
well dressed, and the latter said she
would procure position in New York
FOR her, Daisy consented to come over
here. She was taken TO the house ~ j.
Pc'i street, and TO her surprise found IT
10 be occupied by Cinnamon and white
Ssal and to drink. Sha saws she was
druGEed. Anyhow. she remembered moth
ing until the next morning. when she
found herself virtually "A prisoner For
several days she was kept under the in.
1uence of opiatcs, and after that the
| thought of her disgrace compelled her to
remain lnpfe.
In that condition ox-ro!iceman George
p. Wolfe, Of 40 West Twentieth street
| found her. The latter is now q mission,
| airy. and had entered Chinatown TO try
and reclaim some of the girls there III
took rooms on the top floor Of u IL Pei
street, and it WAS while holding service.
that he met the young girl. He took hel
| TO the Florence Mission, in Blocker
street, and from that place to the Wet,
! more Home for rriendless Girls, at 4!
| South Washington square. That is neariA
! a month ago.
! The life which the girl had been lead
| ing in the Pcll street place, however
| had told upon her. She became in, and
| on sunday her condition was 50 critical
that an ambulancc Was summoned and
| She was taken TO St Nincents Hospital
| There The, physicians at first said she
! was suffering from reritonitis It was
| thought then that she would die.
Of Brooklyn, had been searching Tor The
! missing girl, and when Policeman
| Woolfe notified her of his finding the
eirl she hurried over to see her ex.
| She also told it to Mr.. Woolfe, as well
AS to the latter's wife. and these three
! intend pushing vigorous prosecution
They. viii also try to have the Pell
she had one Of the sweetest dis,
! positions ! ever saw IN child, sale
Mrs. Mintoiyne 70 an Evening World
heard what had beftllcn her it WAS q
great shock to me. She was an innocent
girl up to the time she came to New
| York with that woman, and when she
says she was deCoyed and GrugCcd
| believe her. Her sister and brother-in
law are highly respectable"
Mrs, MIntonyc later visited the hos
pital to see the girl. Both were weeping
on the conclusion of the interview.
Mr.. Woolfe said last night that h,
would call upon, supt Byrnes this morn
| ing and lay all the facts before him
Up to noon. however, he had not ap
poared at Police Headquarters.
| Capt. Berghold, of the Elizabeth stree
station, in whose precinct II - Pei
street is located, also promised to maxi
an investigation, hut no one at the sta
tion-house knew this morning whcthe
he had or not Nearly one hundred per
| whom about ten are Young white girls
The rest are nearly all Chinese.