The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-29
GIRL TRIES To
SAVE ENSLAVER
Agnes Nelson Weeps Bitterly
as William Siegel Is Taken
Back to Jail.
BALDWIN HOLDS MAN FOR
FEDERAL GRAND JURY
Case Is First i'm Utah Under the
New White Slave Law Re-
Gently Enacted.

After a futile effort to prevent her
lover. William Siegel, from falling into
the hands OF the government on the
charge Of violating the new white
slave traffic act, Agnes Nelson, vic
tim of the traffic, cried hysterically,
this afternoon, when the man of her
choice was led off to the county jail
to be held until the April sitting Of the
federal grand jury.
In the hearing held before Charles
Baldwin, United States commissioner,
the story Of the workings of the under
world-its allurcments and It's sorrows
were brought out. After the hearing,
which continued almost the whole day,
Judge Baldwin bound him over.
The Nelson girl told her life story
bringing out the pathos of a world
full OF disregard for the needs Of a
young. homeless and fricndless girl and
the cruelty of the underworld parasites,
ever eager TO get girls in their clutches
Right Name Is Anderson.
The Nelson girl said ber right name
is Anna Matilda Anderson. She came
to America from Sweden in 1907 when
Is years old and went TO Denver,
where she secured work in a rooming
house. For a long time she worked
there and then removed to a hotel,
where she was engaged as a cham
bermaid. In an effort to earn living,
she fell into the hands of a man who
worked her ruin The downfall was
rapid after that, the girl said. She
met Siegel, who was a pool player In
a Larimer street pool room. With Sic
gel she came to Salt Lake and entered
the stockade, the testimony showed,
A month ago Siegel was arrested in
Ogden for ragrancy and when he was
tired for this offense he made an
effort to prove that he was not living
from the earnings of the Nelson girl,
but had paid her railroad fare from
Denver 10 Salt Lake,
That freed Siegel of the charge of
vagrancy, but he was Immediately
seized by the government immigration
officers on charge of violating the
white slave traffic act. passed in June
by congress, making it an offense pun.
ishable by five years in prison and a
fine of $4,000 TO take woman from
one state to another for immoral pur.
poses.
Says Siegel Paid Fare.
In the trial Wednesday the Nelson
girl testified that she bad paid her
own fare to Salt Lake, but Tmmigra.
ton Inspector !. G.. Hise declared she
had told him, in tho presence OF others,
that Siegel had paid the fare. She said
when they arrived here she met girl
on the street who was an inmate of
the stocknde and the girl told her this
was a profitable place to enter. She
talked it over with Siegel and he ar.
ranged for quarters for her. Later
she went with him 10 Ogden, where
Siegel engaged quarters for her again
in the underworld of that city
The girl says she gave Siegel about
$40 week. Inspector Hise said she
told him that she gave Siegel S25 a
week out of her earnings.
Later the girl went TO the hospital,
seriously sick and Siegcl paid her bills
there. IL was brought out
After the hearing Judge Baldwin
said there was no doubt in his mind
about the case and bound Siegel over.
He fixed his bail at $4,000, which, Sic.
gel says. he has no chance of raising.
The Nelson girl is very attractive.
She is unable to speak English well.
She can make herself understood, how
ever. She declared in her testimony
that she thinks a great deal Of Sicgel
and will do all she can to protect him.
According to authoritative reports,
Siegel has a wife and child in Denver.