The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
GRAND JURY FINDS
WOMENNOT GUILTY
Stories of White Slavery Among
Russian Immigrants at
Honolulu Refuted
[Speeiol Correspondence of The Call

Especial Correspondence of The Call
HONOLULU, May S.-That there is any
regularly organized traffic in white
slaves here among the recently arrived
Russians has not been proved, nor has
any one of the women been convicted
of the charge Of immortality brought
against them collectively.
The window cleaner from San Fran
cisco, Sternberg, who married, and in
few days awoke to find his wife
gone, seems to be responsible for
good deal of the trouble
Several of the women have been
under arrest, but all have been freed
by the grand jury after a careful in
veStigation.
Sternberg, it seems, met a Russian
whose wife had come out ahead of him.
They were legally divorced in Harbin,
and on arrival she went to live in
private residence with a respectable
family.
HUSBAND COMES FROM RUSSIA
She tired of that, and sought work
In laundry, and while working there
her husband came from Russia and Sc
cured work. Sternberg met him and
confided in him the loss of his own
wife. Then came the story from the
husband and an expressed wish to get
his wife back. 1t was two masculine
souls with single thought. Sternberg
prompted him in a speech he was to
make before the governor, and all
went well except that the Russian did
not get his wife nor did Steruberg get
his.
Then the San Francisco man told his
troubles to a man named Davis, once
United States marine, and Davis got the
wife to live in his lodging house. 1t
is said by Sternberg that their rela-
tions were not in accordance with the
moral code. The tangled mass has
been thrashed out by the federal jury,
and it looks as though Davis would
get into trouble.
FEW LEGALLY MARRIED
Interpreter Dombvrowsky, who came
out from the port of Dalney with the
immigrants. is authority for the state
ment that but few of the couples that
came out are legally married, the
women coming merely to get away
from uncongenial surroundings of a
marital state and many Of the men for
the same reason.
One hundred and fifty decided Fri
day to accept terms and go to work on
the plantations and this, in spite of the
fact that a small socialist organization
has been collecting dimes from among
it's members and contributing it as
relief fund to the deluded immigrants.
Two hundred and fifty more Russians
rrived on the Mongolia yesterday and
are In quarantine owing to the prevail
ence of diphtheria and smallpox among
the steerage.
GIRL NOT KIDNAPPED
The excitement over the loss of one
of the little girls in the camp has sub
sided 1t seems that some days ago
Portuguese and his wife called on the
Russians, and seeing q small girl, dirty
and hungry, offered to take her home
and feed her for four days. The couple
left with the girl. the parents accom-
panying them to a store mile away,
where they were served with lemonade
and cakes by a Chinese. The latter
apparently knew the Portuguese for he
vouched for them and said the Chile
would be returned on time.
The parents became alarmed as the
days passed, and an appeal was made to
the police without any immediate re-
suit. The Chinese was questioned. but
he seemed ignorant and finally said the
next time he saw the Portuguese he
would speak to him. At the end of II
days the child was returned. the Por-
tuguese having been under the impress
sion that the child had been given
them.