The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-15
TO STAMP OUT THE SHIMSHAS.
G MONTHS HARD LAB0R FOR MEN
WHO LIVE on STREET HOMEN.
system by Which Jewish Girls Arc Made
Slaves Has Strong Backins-some
Cops In It--Man Higher Up Has Defence
Tund-Da Bankers Camp Only Begun

Slaves Has Strong Dackins-some
Cops I'm It-Man Higher Up Has Defence
Fund-Dankers' Campaign Only Begun.
Magistrate Barlow asked District Attorney
Jerome Yesterday 70 send a representative
10 the Yorkville police court TO note the evil
dence in the cases Of the eight young men
accused of being cadets, who were ar
rested Friday. Mr. Jerome sent Assistant
District Attorney Kresel to help Lawyer
Moot. who was retained by Jacob H. Schin,
Isaac " Selgman Rudolph Lewsohn and
other prominent Hebrews TO prosecute the
case. Mr.. Kresel had a talk With Mr., Moot,
and the two went over the evidence that
five private detectives had gathered.
When the eighteen prisoners who were
caught Friday were arraigned for exaui-
nation in the Yorkville court Lawyer Moot
produced n big tin box filed with afilda vita
containing evidence Assistant District
Attorney Kresel said he was ready for tho
prosecution.
u must ask for an adjournment to pre-
pare a defence for these young men, who are
already condemned by public sentiment
said Lawyer James Nugent. THE crime
they are charged with may be said TO be
worse than murder. Wall Street bankers.
the District Attorneys Office. the press and
public clanor are calling for their condem-
nation. The prosecution has been gather
ing evidence for months and l must have
time 10 prepare a defence
Magistrate Barlow said he thought the
request reasonable and set the examination
for ncxt Tuesday In the Tombs police court.
All Of the prisoners. with the exception Of
ono girl. were taken downstairs. She WAS
bailcd out. The court room was crowded
with the friends of the men and women
prisoners.
"The work of roofing out the abduction
system on the Fast side has now begun in
dead earnest" said Ma gistrate Cornell. who
is sitting this week in tssex Market court.
1t was Magistrate Cornell who enlisted
Mr. SChin : aid in the crusade.
we have found provision OF the Penal
Code. be went on, which will enable us
to deal with abduction very effectively.
II is subdivision 0 OF Session ss7'
This section reads:
livery male person who lives wholly or
In part on the earnings OF prostitution, or
vho. In any pubic pace. rocts Tor iu-
habituauy m he company Of prostitute
and has no visible means 81 support. shnl
be deemed to ba living on the earnings OF
prostitution
us, said the Magistrate will be dealt with
summarily as Migrants and will be COM
mitted to the woTkhou-e Tor six months at
hard labor. We realize that there will be
q lot Of saloon keepers ready TO bail these
people out but their bonds will not be ac-
copied. Some pot cal influence will doubt
less be brought o bear on us also. but We
are going 20 fight it out 20 the bitter end
"We reajze that the police could not
get hold Of these criminals as well as few
r.r1r IA
them and get direct evidence. Ten years
ago there were very few. II any, Jewish
women on the streets in the city; now they
are very much in the majority, and they are
more numerous around Fourteenth street
than on the lower East Side. This abom-
Unable abduction system is the cause OF 1T
all Young girls who go out evenings for
a little pleasure are roped in by these fell
lows, and then the trouble begins,
The abductor hires a little room in some
tenement and induces the girl 70 live there
You ask him about il, and he will say that he
lives there, but they are nothing more nor
less than miserable novels OF vice. For "A
confederation, his friends are allowed to
share his crime. and the system is estab-
hshed. II we can get hold OF these men We
can root out the whole thing. The girls will
he treated with eniency If their parents
are willing TO take them back or If they
have work that they can do. they ought TO
be allowed to go free. Otherwise, they will
have TO be given into the care OF the insti-
tutions."
There is no doubt that a strong fight
will be made TO protect these Young men
-aid Mr. Moot -They are part OF a system
Of graft that branches out In various direc-
tions ard which yields great deal of money.
Hotel keepers Of the Raines law kind thrive
through II, concert halls, saloons, real
estate owners, policemen and bondsmen
profit by Il. East Side politicians are con-
cerned in tho system and are fTeque ntly
pushed 10 the front when it is necessary
to use their influence in. court.
Is there any man higher up in this
business he was asked.
IF you mean 10 ask if there is any man
high in the Police Department protecting
this system, will say no, he replied But
there is man who directs the general
policy Of the shimshas or oafers who en-
slave these girls and take their money.
We know who that man il. lie Is
man Of Intelligence but no con-
ecience. He keeps In the background and
gives his orders whenever any Of the shm-
shas get into trouble. He has fund from
which 10 employ counsel. pay bondsmen,
supply witnesses and do ali things that are
necessary 10 protect the parasite from
deserved punishment,
While there was no accusation in court
against the police generally, It was said
that several policemen Of the Fifth street
station are individually interested in some
of the street walkers. The names OF the
policemen and the women were mentioned
pinohed already except by mistake. one
Of the street women said in court pointing
TO q policeman in plain clothes.
1T ia strange to see how these girls cling
20 the men Who ruined them said one e
the private detectives who spent ten weeks
hasocating with the East Side outcasts
for the purpose Of getting evidence, Il
have seen a man strike his woman a
blow in the face on very small provocation.
That usually made her more subssryient TO
his whims Most Of them carry knives,
and they think nothing Of jahbing a knife
into the woman II she holds out money or
IN not lucky enough to earn plenty. Ii she
were almost killed by Ter shimsha she
would not complain 10 tn police,
q girl must accept aud keep as her pro-
tector the man who claims 70 own her II
abe discarded him for another, she'd meet
trouble right away. Strange to say the
other girls In the system would help per-e-
cute her While chatting With her on the
street they would cut her cloak or dress.
She would be frequently arrested, and the
80 for the bondsman and the s. or $40 Ia
court would be a tax on her resources.
Their room rent Is eNorbitant. and the
average weekly expenses Of these girls Is
$40
II ia said that the movement now begun
by the Wal Street men will not end with
few arrests and convictions
The men are usually husky young fellows
Who are ecrappers IN a small way They
follcsR the women on the streets and note
how much money thew ought 10 earn Thev