New-York tribune., 1910-09-02
SAVES 3 SPANISH GIRLS
immigration Board Detects False
Rinu in "UnCle's" Story.
NHOLE FAMILY DECEIVED
Big Pay Promised Pretty Hair
dresser, but She Gladly Sails
Home with Sisters.

Three ccmelr Spanish girls. dccoyed from
Tie home cf their father al san Sebastian.
scain Icy a man nov detained at Ellis
Island, were sent bacl. yesterday to their
native land on the french finer Is Lor-
~a:ne BY the immigral lioa officials. tc whom
they had appealed for protection.
Minutes of the board OF special INJURY
which handled the case show that the man
-vno brought the girls 70 this country mad
coached them in = plausible story 10 ten
the inspectors: that he might get fheh'
through the United States and take them
10 Mexico, where he had planned TO start
Them in the .airdressing business
According 10 Senorita JOSefa Ioralha.
seventeen years old the oldest OF the three
sisters. Sefor Msrcelino Nonascorelo, a
snaniard Of Barcelona. brought them to
this country under false p7etences and
rnisled their father at San Sebastian con
cerning the real object Of his efforts to
land them in Mexico City.
The three Toralba sisters came here last
SATURDAY. in the second cabin Of the Lor-
raine. accompanied by Monascorelo. They
were exceptionally attractive girls, Of dark
corplexion and remarkably tmid- The eld-
est girl Josefa. unusually nervous and
seemed loath 10 leave her two younger sis
tiers. The girls al showed by their actions
that they did not want TO he near Monas-
corelo. and this aroused the suspicious of
the boarding Inspector who was examining
the aliens on the Lorraine
no Family Resemblance
The fnspector also noticed that the girls
had black hair and dark skins. while the
man who accompanied them was of the
fair type of Spaniard. There was no su5-
gestion Of family resemblance. notwith-
standing the fact that Monascorelo protest
ed he was the uncle of the three girls who
accompanied him
MonaSCoreto said the parents nj the gfris
IN san Sebastian were poor and that ne
vas taking them 10 MeXic7 E1ty Where
they would be taken care Of and educated
tn a fashion be7tting the family Of Toraloa
which at one time was one OF the wealth.
est in Spain.
He was anxious TO leave the pier at once,
but the immigration inspector detained him
and the three girls and sent them 10 kilS
Island. When they arrived at the island
the three girls were brought before
Spanish Interpreter. and Menascorelo was
kept away from them. As soon as the
eldest girl saw a man speaking her native
tongue and wearing the uniform of
United States official she burst into tears
and begged him to save her and her sisters
from the man who professed 10 he their
uncle.
She told the interpreter she had been en-
ploved as a hairdresser at San Sebastian
and that one day Monascorelo came 10 the
establishment where she worked and said
he could find her employment an Mexico
CITY that would pay her five times the
money she was making at San Sebastian
He promised to pay her transportation.
and when ht learned that she had TWO
sisters. Magdale,1a. aged fifteen. and Pira!,
aged thirteen. ne agreed to take them also.
Hoodwinked Girls Family.
Nonascorelo went to the home Of the
girls, narents and told the same story 10
the father. ana aser giving him sum OF
money 10 take the place Of The earnings ot
the eldest daughter obtained the old man :
consent to let his three daughters depart
for Mexicp-City-
During the "trip. according 10 Joseia' 'he
Spaniard told them what to tell the lnmi-
grafton officials TO be admitted to the
country. Before the Lorraine had crossed
raid-Atlantic she said he had grossly in
suited her
The girl said she feared the man and
7s,er,,ined 10 run away from him with
te,. sisters when she arrived here. Shame,
.be declared. prevented her telling Of the
..,,l, l,a had offered her. She told the in
,.,nre-er that while her family was poor
n was respectable
cl,a said that the pleasant and gentle
manly manner OF the Spaniard had de
,ei,-ed her as well as her parents. and '.iat
had = n,,t been for the insult offered her
IN mid Atlantic she wonld never have Sus-
7,ected his real object In bringing her ana
her sisters 70 Mexico city.
The girls story impressed the Bcafo OF
Special Inquiry and when the three san
sch children EXPRESSED n desire 10 70 '-ack
50 Snajn ID lost no 1ime in ordering them
deported.
Nonascorelo was not permitted to seek
them again and was brought before the
Beard OF Special inquiry alone day later
He had 500 in money and was we'll
dressed buf bei& unable 10 give salts
factory explanation Of his coming here
with the To1alba sisters, he WAS promptly
ordered deported.
Fearing that ne might ne a source Of
annoyance To the girls on the trip back
"a Havre on the Lorraine, Tire immigra-
lion officials will hold him until Thurs
day. when he viii be sent back on the
FRENCH liner La Provence. which is due
here To-day
The girls were taken TO the steamer
YESTERDAY and put aboard shortly before
the steamship sailed. They expressed
thanks TO the immigration officials, who
arranged TO lsave them cared fer on the
voyage 10 Hs1re.