New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-07
QUICK TRIAL FOR NECRESS
sIleued white Slave" Dealer
FACES Court Wednesday.
SEEKING LEVINSON ALLIES
Woman Released on EXamina-
ton by Whitman-Still No
Trace of Helen Hastings.

Relle Moore. the negress who is charged
with having sold two young white girls for
eoo 10 one of District Attorney whitman's
..uhite slave" investigators for shipment
On 4 disorderly house in Seattle, will be
rlaced on trial next Wednesday before
fudge Grain. in Part of General Sessions
The date for trial was fixed Yesterday by
Judge Grain st the request Of Mr.. Whit
man. and with the consent of karlin &
busch counsel for the accused woman
The prosecution VIII be conducted by AS
sistant District Attorney T Channon Press,
end among the witnesses viii be the Smith
snd Radcliffe College graduates who took
mart ia the transaction as agents of the
District Attorney. but ostensibly as the
woman proprietor Of Seattle establish
ment and her maid.
Ievinson Again on the Rack.
Although Mr. Whitman had Harry Levin
son. who pleaded guilty TO a similar in
6ictnlent, on the rack all yesterday morn
inr. he secured little new information for
The use Of the Rockefeller grand fury,
which is conducting the white slave in
vestsgation.
During the day detectives assigned to
verify Ieyinson's statements of the pre-
,ious day reported the disappearance OF
several others accused by Jevinson OF be-
tur. engaged in the traffic OF young girls
FOR Immoral purposes on the East Side.
Mrs. Bertha Scharf, who conducts lodg-
ing house at No. IS East Sd street. one Of
,be nersors referred to by L,evinson in his
morning examination. was brought TO the
district Attorneys Office by a detective
She satisfied the District Attorney that she
knew nothing about the traffic and was not
detained.
Alleged Trafickers Disappear.
I,evinson apparently did not know the
names Of many OF his alleged fellow traf-
fckers, but that they existed and had
skinned out were verified by the detectives
Two of them were referred to by Levinson
as Charley the Bull and Sam the Ex-
pressman," and. according TO him they were
employed by a character known as Blind
Becky" the keeper Of one Of the exchanges
or 'stockades," who has also closed up
shop and disappeared.
District Attorney Whitman will not ask
for warrants for any Of the persons &C
cused by Levinson. whose status now IS
that Of a convicted felon, unless an in
vestigation Of his statements justif1es such
q course. The detective sent out yesterday
70 locate Ievinson's brother reported that
vacant lot, and the brother who is under
suspicion, has not yet been located.
No Trace of Helen Hastings.
Anthony Comstock was among District
Attorney Whitman's callers yesterday. He
turned over a number Of letters relating
70 the subject under grand jury investga-
zion.
Inspector Russell reported that the score
Of men assigned by him TO look for the
eleven-year-old white girl. Helen Hastings.
whom George a Miller, the white slave
Investigator, has made affidavit he saw in
Belle Moore's fiat, in West 41st street, have
found no trace OF her.
Captain Carey. Of the homicide bureau.
called upon Assistant District Attorney
Reynolds yesterday morning. Both he and
Mr.. Reynolds refused TO discuss the cause
Of the formers visit, but intimated that il
had no bearing upon the white slave"
crusade.