New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-11
GIRL SAVED FROM SHAME
Country Child Taken Away from
Chinaman's Home in Quarter.
SOLVES MYSTERY. SAYS MOSS
Alleged That Another Chapter In
White Slave" Crime Has
Been Written Here.

ON the threshold of life of shame in
Chinatown. Marcella Feature, seventeen
years old. OF Easton, Penn, was rescued
last night through the quick work of
Assistant District Attorney Frank Moss.
Mr.. Moss's attention had been called
TO the plight of the young country girl
ny the Women's Society for the Proven
ton of Crime. The society is an out
growth OF the organization with a sim
liar name of which Mr.. Moss was once
The head. Miss Elizabeth J. Moss, his
daughter, is president of the woman's
organization
Although the only result of last nights
work to appear on the court records to-
DAY will be the arraignment Of a notori-
Gus Chinatown character known as
GYPSY Queen of No. IL Pell street, on
the charge Of keeping a disorderly house,
other charges more serious against her
and others Of her kind may follow
in the mean time the story of how
NarceIa Feature was enticed to New
York to become a chattel in the disso-
lutte. opium sodden life of Chinatown is
q new chapter in the annals of the
underworld
Mr.. Moss said last night that through
this discovery a mystery had been
solved.
we know that in Chinatown there
arc many white girss. nineteen and
twenty years old. who went there in
tender years It has been more or less
4 mystery as to how they made their
advent into the life Of the district. But
Lere, for the first time. is the revelation
of the way in which they are inveigled
into becoming denizens of ChinatoWn's
underworld
II was after Marcella had told the
story OF her coming to New York that
Mr.. Moss made his comment. The
story. he is sure, is similar 10 that Of
scores of other unfortunates now num-
bered among the white girls Of China
town.
Irene Lee. the wife of Tom Lee. the
Chineman Of No. 2212 Catharine street,
where we were arrested, is the sister Of
g girl who is a chum OF my sister in
Esston.'' said Marcella when cross-ex-
amined BY Mr. Moss. when Irene was
in Faston a short time ago she invited
sights. About a month ago I came here.
Irene met me in Jersey City and brought
me 10 her home in Catharine street. I
have been around TO the theatres and
restaurants, and have enjoyed my vaca-
ton
The girl was astounded when informed
by Mr.. Moss that Irene was graduate
of the establishment of the Gypsy
Queen in Pei1 street.
Agents Of the Women's Society for the
Prevention Of Crime have been watch
ing the home of Tom Lee since the little
country girl conspicuous by the very
bloom Of the hills still upon her cheeks,
became member of tho Lee house
hold.
Still more, surprised vas the girl when
convinced that her name had been found
entered in = book in the Pell street house
Of the GYPSY Queen" by Detectives
Russo and F'itzsimmons- Of the District
Attorneys staff Then she cried little
end thanked Mr.. Moss. Miss Moss and
Miss Bertha T. Rembaugh. counsel for
the society. who viii appear against the
Gypsy Queen to-day in the Tombs
court.
Tom Ice. Irene Lee and another
Chinanan with whom the GYPSY
Queen has lived at No. II Pell street.
rH Of whom had been brought TO the
District Attorneys office in a patrol
d. wagon by Captain Hodgins and his men,
were held as witnesses.
We may not have made out as good
= case against the Gypsy Queen as we
might have made by waiting 4 short
time said Mr. Moss, but We have
ir,terfered before little Marcella had 2
chance TO become other than the good
Eivl she VAS when she left her parents
IN Faston. Just to come TO New York and
sec the sights