The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-07-06
Accuse new YORKER
OF running GIRLS
ACCUSATION MADE THAT YOUNG
SHORT sEDUcED SCHOOL
CHILDREN.
Arrest Is Incident in Connection with
Exposure Following Shooting Of
Architect Stanford White by Harry
Kendall Thaw.

New YORK, july Z.-DlStrlct Attorney
Jerome announced Sunday that he
would organize new grand jury to go
to the bottom of the scandal in the
Thaw-White case.
With the announcement came the
first fruits Of the crusade, which has
for its object the punishment of prom
inent New York men who have been
making an organized attack on the
virtue of young girls.
Henry Afford Short, a member of the
University club, son of the late Prof.
Charles Short, of Columbia university,
was locked up in the West Side court
prison on charge of running two IA
year-old schoolgirls, daughters of re-
spectacle parents.
Short is prominent socially. An adj
dress look found in his pocket con-
tanned the names of several families of
the 400 and memoranda showing he
has been regular caller at their
homes. He was a brother of Edward
Lyman Short, who died year ago
and who married into the aristocratic
Livingston family.
Arrested in "Den."
Recent exposures in connection with
the ThawWhite shooting led some
person, whose name is being withheld,
to report to the police that Harry"
Short had made a practice of running
young girls.
The social register gives Shorts adj
dress as 1 West Fifty-fourth street, but
the arrest was made at 258 West Fifty
fifth street, where he maintained lux
uriously furnished den in fur
nished room house conducted by Nine.
Angevine.
May Indict Mrs. Thaw.
John Doe proceedings will be con-
tinued, Mr.. Jerome said, with view
to finding out just what relations ex-
listed between White and the Thaws
before and after Thaws marriage. 1t
is thought possible some one else may
be indicted as an accessory.
1t is recalled that Mrs. Thaw was
with her husband before the shooting
and that she did not leave the Madison
Square roof garden until after the fatal
shots were fired. Mrs. Thaw may be
called before the grand jury again.
District Attorney Jerome staid only
short time at his Rutgers street
home after his return
He did not disclose the names of the
persons he intended to confer with.
Before going uptown he said:
"At present l know nothing more
a Ii
have read in the newspapers All l
can say is there is no good reason ap-
parent now why Harry Thaw's trial
should be advanced out of its regular
course. There are 10 persons In the
Tombs besides him awaiting trial on
hoimcidal charges These cases natur-
ally would come up before Thaw is
brought before the bar. 1t is not likely
his trial will begin before October
Thaw Refuses Lucky Charm.
Thaw spent quiet day in the Tombs
Sunday after sound nights sleep. He
did not have a single visitor all day.
His wife sent telegram in the after
noon saying it had been impossible to
get the necessary permission to visit
the prison on Sunday. Thaw seemed
greatly disappointed at the message.
A prison keeper offered him lucky
rabbits foot carried by Roland B. Mol
ineaux, Mrs. Fleming, Nan Patterson,
and Bertha Claiche. Thaw declined
the gift.
Il need no lucky charm" said he.
Mrs. Thaw was in her apartments in
the Lorraine, Forty-ffth street and
Fifth avenue, all day, but refused to
see reporters. Her mother, who, it was
announced, was to come on from Pitts
burg to take her place at her girls
side, did not appear at the hotel.