New-York tribune., 1905-02-24
ANOTHER WHITE SLAVE.
4 Girl of Sirteen Tells a PihfuL
Story of Wrongs.

Sons OF the customers when they heard my
story had pity on me-
The speaker little girl n short dresses
with fluffy black hair hanging down her back and
parted Nadonnalike in the middle OF her forehead
The place was the Court Of General Sessions. and
az this remark Judge Joseph Z. Newburger ejacu-
lated:
-eThere is some good left n man.
. was late n the afternoon. and the wit
ness. little Austrian Jewess named Eva Edel-
stein. had been sitting all day long in the witness
chair where with perfect seIf-possesson and dig
nifty, she told story OF outrage, the details OF
which we're much too horrible 20 be narrated any
where else. No cross-examination could break
down she story OF the brave little girl. and nothing
r7lfaed her conposure until the court adjourned
and the ordeal over. Then she broke down
and cried e HtsIe, not from nervousness. but be-
cause she was lonesome and wanted 10 90 home
70 her relatives. instead OF 10 the House Of De-
tsution. where she has been sent for safekeepng
Intl her case IS over.
y an afraid I can't let you go home said her
lawyer. !. Il. Iseltn. They would get after you
again"
The persons thus referred 10 are the defendants
= the case, Abraham and MahIke Goldberg and
Joseph Cohen. and the charge against them, pre-
1erred the complaint of Eva EdeIstein, Is alb
ducttoa- The case IS q particularly heinous one,
q kind that w1s more common a few years
ago thait has been Of iaue. and If the defendants
are convicted the Judge seems 10 be in a mind 10
impose On them the extreme penalty OF the law,
which IS ten years
The crime related by Eva yesterday. minus
many oS the details, was in brief as follows:
About seven months ago, Eva Edelstein, having
then Just passed her sixteenth birthday came from
her home, il Austria 70 this country She was
net on her arrival by some cousins by the
Of Gottfried and spent couple OF months in their
home. At No. % FOrzyrh-st- At the end Of that
tine message brought 10 her cousins home
By young man, who proved afteTward to be a
runner" for disreputabIe house. Mrs. Gottfried
could not read the paper, as II was not Yiddish,
and she said 70 Eva that she had better take it
around 10 her cousins shop two blocks away.
= might be important Eva. who had never been
cut alone before cid as she was bid and In the
street she found the bearer Of the message waiting
for her. He told her that her cousin had moved
and ne would show her the place. He took
her 20 the Goldberg house and when she remarked
that this not her cousins shop. he said IL
none os her business. and pushed her in Here she
dragged into bedroom. stripped Of all her
clothing. gagged, and bound so tightly that when
he cords we're taken away the blood spurted from
golumbia-sL. and at another place TO which the
she vas not allowed 70 leave her rooRrfor any
purpose Whatsoever. and the only paSt Of her
single Pettcoat- When she refused 10 DO as she
threatened also. she said. to xiii her and on one
AL this tine the child kept telling her story 10
every nan she saw and some Of them as she said
q court had pity on her. One OF them carried the
And when he saw me-" said Eva, ',he wept, and
seo he prayed God 10 guard any OF his own chill
cnen from such q fate he told me he would try
% save me- but he could not 90 X az once II would
Aot De easy. he q workingL1an
Nj Cohen notified the police, the place was
Ieloe0 and al the inmates were arralgned IN the
@ssex Market police court Unfortunately Mr.
cohen was unable 70 give his testimony at the
r5ght time and she again fell into the hands Of the
s5oloeergs. They took her 10 their new place, and
acre NJ Cohen again found her He again notified
TIE polce and this time was successful in rescung
ne .trle girl He took her from the court 10 his
OWE home, secured work for her. and accompanied
-s . enc from the place every morning and night
Ihe Goldbergs now began 70 annoy the Cohens
even 20 the extent Of physical violence II IS said
S5lo ne present action begun last resort
lie case - expected 70 go on until Monday
end many witnesses are TO be called. Eva the
ehly one examined yesterday and in cross-exanlin-