The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-25
TRAP FOR IMMIGRANT GIRLS.
SHOf KING CHARGE AGAINST A
M4SPETH PRISONER.
Young Woman. whom He Got ~ an Err.
pioyment Agency, Says She Was Held
Captive for . Week--He Had Engaged
Many Other Girls In the Same way.

With the arrest ard indictment by the
Queens County Grand Jury yesterday Of
! Paul liaifOwita, Az years old. brushm6ker.
| the authorities believe they have captured
one OF the principal menb,Is OF e vice
| syndicate which for years has been raf-
licking in young Gill- for immoral pur-
| po-ts. II was through stoiy told Iy
/ Mary Narik, 10 years OLD, that Raifovitz's
/ rendezvous was brought TO the attention
Of the police. The Nanik girl says she
! spent a week in his house a prisoner.
rOr more than two years Raifowitz has
lived III small frame houss at Grand
street and Williams place, Maspeth. In
al that time the blinds were never opened
and only at rare intervals was any one
seen about the place. The police always
believed the house was unoccIpied until
they were taken there by the Van girl.
The police say tha, Raifowitz had stand
ing orders a. different employment agencies
for young immigrant girls who could no,
p ak English. The Vanix girl was en-
gagged from Frances ia, kovsky's agency
al juniper v,Eue and johnson street,
Masp'th. Ealfowitz was a good customer
OF the place and engaged many girls. When
Questioned concerning what he did with
v" - no 'iiIipNfu tHe
agency that he obtained them good stu
atoms with friends.
lie had standing order az Jarkovskys
agency Tor eight or ten girls not older than
~ years. he wanted only German. Polish
or Russian girls who had just come to this
country. He said he preferred Young pirls
.'cd.se II Vas easier to teach them than
II MAS girls who were older and had been
oit az service IL other places
According 70 the story told by the police
ana the Nanik girl, Raifowitz had a con-
iederhte ~ the person of Annie Piotrowski.
10 years old. who had been living with him
IA me Maspoth house for two years At
me une she was enga gad, the Vanik girl
saws. she was 10 receive Sl2 a month with
LITTLE work to do
With the aid of the Piotrowski girl. she
says, she was assaulted the first nfght she
spent IN the house. Then her clothing was |
the house ~
=, A lew DAYS later in company with the |
tlotrowski girl. she says, Raifowitz took |
her To Manhattan and tried 10 induce her /
70 enter house. but she feared further |
Ill treatment and refused Raifowitz took |
her back to Maspeth
sac i,"h pret"..Ied 10 become reconciled |
"a h"T ,!'ua' ior ard got few hours leave.
ifpmSlng To- return. lmmediat ely on hear
ing IL" girls story The Jarkovsky agency
Communicated with the Newtown police
aand Detectives Peter Kelly and Oscar
Jnf a., accompanied by the Vanik girl and
Miss Jarkovsky, visited Raifowitz's house
Detective Kelly saws the interior of the
house rcs"mhled n prison All the windows
we're sealed shut ard were guarded by
'oavv iron bars. while locks and bars fast
? led the doors. Scarcely any light got into
he rlace
When placed under arrest Raifowitz
protested his innocence. The Piotrowski
tlrl also was arrested The police say
Ralfpv'z has hvpnotizod her.
The police believe his real residence
5 IN MaHhattan and that he simply used
he house in Nasncth TO procure yictims