New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-25
AGED COUPLE PROCURERS'
CHARGE OF DETECTIVES
They Say Prisoners Furnished
Women for Disorderly Houses.

Detective SerEeants Lennon and Smerln. OF IN
sector schulttoerser's STAN. and Captain Rooney
I'd his detectives. Cassnan and Stevens ,e~t,r-
- arrested Levy Fiber seventv-th-ee ,,oo-~s "a
sboesrake~. his wife, Jennie. sixty wears Ola "a
49, married daughter. Mrs. Gertrude s,lto,..,-
eighteen vears oic. who has a seven-veehs-oIs
ssby charging them with criminal convn,-0,,-
The arrests were made st No ls6 Attorncv-st on
ne second floor OF which the family live IN tbres
ssuaHd rooms The police say they believe .bo
,--ests disclose the headquarters OF a co,,rs g.
ne distribution OF Young girls for immoral pu-
poses
TIE f-st hint THAI such a trafHc was being car.
-sed ras conveyed 70 the District Attorneys
oHce r. series CO anonymous letters Nfr
Jerome referred fhe communication TO Can+atn
roo-ev IS the house mentioned vas 4, rts -.
r.nct. Tho captain sought the advice OF Insnecto-
s-hr-t-tbc-ee-. who detailed Lennon and si-,s-r,
n the case.
Lennon representing himself as the p-onr5etor
ot q house III Brooklyn. obtained an sntro5uctso,
20 Levy Fioer. according 10 the story he .ola q.
Police headquarters last night. On October Il
Lennon SAYS. Fiber agreed TO get him All tho
girls ne wanted. There were two IN Ffbe-'s house
a. the tine. but Lennon. who had given his name
rs Turner said be didn't want them. A meeting
however. was arranged for later date. Fiber
srrsenr 70 send Lennon a letter AZ an address
in Brooklyn. informing him when he had more
s1-ls a; the same tire ne showed a letter he
sid be had received from a person t- baltimore
acosaE so and two railroad tickets and instruct
i7r him 20 send two girls
on October = Lennon again went 70 T-sbe-,s
mons There was only one girl there Rosfo
Rossn who gave her age as twenty-one bur -rho
appeared 20 be not mere than seventeen Fiber
-ol5 Lennon. the latter declares. that he had ex-
rscre5 10 get the hshmonEer's Ga tighter fifteen
wears old from the corner store but had not been
able 20 CO Lennon took Rosie Rosan with
h.-n. giving Fiber g marked s. bill and took
her 70 Assistant District Attorney Lord where
she told her story she said that she was a
newcomer On the country. Fiber had promised to
ret her work and when he explained the nature
n % she had objected. but had been assured by
h'-n that u was "a right
-iue be- Cur The Rosar girl. and that the business
was conducted With Mrs. Fiber and Mrs Salten-
berg. further meeting vas arranged Tor O'Clock
Yesterday me ort-cllEs says ne was met at the
6oo- CT the house by cid Fiber and his daughter
WhIa be "a king To them the thirteen yesr-old
aoh papa's got q room fuu % girls upstairs fo-
lennon went upstairs. and says he found there
v-C5 ~ Mrs Fiber take ms pick. and eventually
selected Ciii Uho sc.d she was Lena Brown
eighteen years cid. Lennon says ne took the girl
esiCe ans asked her y Sne UNDERSTOOD where she
was going snd fer what purpose. and she said she
id. and was willing 70 20. He then lett the house
win the girl after giving a marked $ bill TO
Fiber L was snatched from his hand by the
daughter. who exclaimed
Don't give papa The money; mother handles
that
when Lennon and the girl emerged from the
house = was the signal for Captain Rooney and his
men. who we're waiting in hiding near by. 70
and arrest Der. MS VIE anO oauElier-
L searching the room the detectives found letters
from cities al over the country. having reference
the procuring q girls
When Mrs. Fiber searched al the Union Mar
ket station. the police say she had the 8 bill
marked BY Lennon IN a roll OF about t2o