The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-05
GIRL A PRISONER FIVE MONTHS
BROTHER COMES FROM MOSCOW
AND RESCUES SARAH BEBAR.
unc,e Not at the Pier " hen Her ship Came
IN and Men Deceived Her and Carried
Her on Found with Her In a
Poor Room Charged with Abduction.

The trials Of Sarah Bebar. II years old,
a pretty and u~nsuspecting Russian i'm
migrant girl who placed her confidence
in two strange men who met her at the
steamship dock in Hoboken five months
ago at the end Of her long passage in the
America and lured her away, were related
Yesterday TO the police and relatives after
the girl had been rescued from a house in
East New York at 2 o'clock in the morning.
The rescue was made by the girls brother,
Jacob Bebar. who came all the way from
Russia to find her. With him when ar en-
trance was forced into the dingy rooms at
3s8 Bristol street was an uncle. Israel Etler.
OF IS Mulberry street. Manhattan.
The girl lay on a heap OF ragged clothing
and other stuff which served her as a cot.
She showed plain evidence Of the life of
hardship TO which she declared she had been
forced by the two men. a father and son.
who held her there. One Of the men. the
father, attacked the rescuers and put up a
desperate struggle. the police say, before
he was subdued with the aid Of a police
man who ran up. Barman Marader, -
wears old. Of 1856 Bristol street. was arrested
and locked up in the Brownsville station on
a charge Of abduction made by the girl.
FOR more Ludn TOUT ulOiiJiIb III Eli Alod
been in the mems power, she said. Early
last February she arrived in Hoboken on
a boat OF one Of the German lines. IL was
her ambition to visit the new land, which
che was told Of in letters received from
friends who had preceded her. She pleaded
with her family in Moscow to be allowed TO
make the trip. and II was finally arranged
that her uncle, Jacob Bebar, a we'll to do
real estate dealer in Manhattan. should
meet the girl at the landing place. A few
hours after the steamer arrival the uncle
was on his way to Hoboken.
But the big boat had hardly warped into
her dock when. the young immigrant. wait
ing with her few parcels. was approached
and Of benevolent and fatherly appearance.
the other young and good looking. They
asked her il she was Sarah Bebar. She
old them she was. The old man said he
was her uncle. He clasped her in his arms
and kissed her. The young man was very
cousinly. He said he was the old mans
son. They said they would make her
happy; b,rri.d bsr and bsr BELONGINGS to
a carriage, a decrepit looking rig, and.
whispering an address 70 the driver, drove
away with the girl. Then she was taken
aboard "A smaller boat, she said. very likely
a ferryboat. For two weeks she was held
by the men in a house in Newark. Then
they Dol her TO Brownsvllle. where she
was first imprisoned in a tenement at 1873
Watkin street. Later she was taken to the
Bristol street rooms. She was forced TO
do the mems bidding or be beaten. She
was starved at times, she said.
Not meeting her at the dock her uncle
thought that perhsps she had not come.
He wrote to the family in Moscow. They
answered hat she had been put aboard
the steamer. Something must be wrong:
The brother. Jacob, packed his buds and
started on a search which led TO America.
He met the uncle and relatives. They
sought assistance Of the police and got
little, they said. Finally they traced Sarah
to the Newark house. There they were
thrown on the trail. They searched the
New York and Brooklyn ghetto sections.
Locating the house in Brownsville, they
bided their time. The men who had stolen
the girl were always on the watch. The
younger man was out when they broke in.
The other fought desperately, but was
o~verpowered.
The girl Is at her uncle's home in Man
haitian. There was a happy time there
last night.