The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-03
amazing STORIES
TOLD IN court
GIRLS RELATE SHOCKING DE-
TAILS IN CONNECTION WITH
WHITE SLAVE CASES.
ADJOURNMENT.


AT the afternoon session of Justice
olivier's court yesterday afternoon.
two young girls of immature years
told stories which were simply amaz-
ing in their disclosures of brazen inn
morality, and which were told un-
hlushingly and even smilingly, so far
40 one of the girls was concerned.
The first girl on the stand. aged
fourteen, was arrested in a raid made
ON a photograph gallery last week. She
became tangled up in her answers,
contradicting herself once or twice, and
aid not appear to realize the extent OF
her wrong doing.
The girl involved in the studio
incident is Mary McConville. and the
owner of the gallery. charged with
serious offense, is Peter NJ. Juntinen,
II was in the Juntinen case that the
girl testified and an adjournment was
taken until Friday afternoon for the
transcribing of the testimony.
The hearing of the case of two
Hancock boys arrested in connection
with the affair of the alleged four
teen year old girl who was taken from
n West Hancock resort. was next taken
M and the girl herself was placed on
the stand as a witness. The girls name
"a Eva Mayotte, and the boys are
Harry OShinslSy and Will Opie. The
Girl Is of small stature and of slender
build with an interesting dark face,
.. mounted by thick black hair bound
across her forehead with n red ribbon,
giving her an oriental appearance. She
appears to be of fair degree of intelli-
eence more so than the girl involved in
the previous case. and she seemed dis
posed to make clean breast of every
thing. She spoke calmly and emphat-
ically, and told a story which shock
ed those in the court room. While her
age is said to be but fourteen, she
herself has stated 1t to be nineteen.
and she told the court that she al
ways understood, from her remember
ances of past occurrences, that she was
at least seventeen. Her story involved
accounts of misdoings with several
young men in back rooms of saloons
in Hancock and Houghton, before she
went to the West Hancock resort, and
the details of her life there, since she
first entered it about Ave weeks ago,
were appalling when told by lips of
one apparently so young and frail.
Virginia Derosier. one of the women
in whose company she had gone to the
West Hancock resort, corroborated the
story but said that she had tried to
induce the girl to come away, believ-
ing her age to be less than nineteen
and considering her too young to be
engaged in such a business. The girl
after a talk with the proprietors, who
held out alluring promises to her, had
decided to remain. The Derosier wom-
an denied enticing the girl to go to the
place.
There were no persons allowed in
the court room other than the court
officials, police, witnesses, defendants,
attorneys, County Agent Mason and
newspaper representative lHe at'oi
neys having interests in the case In be-
half of defendants, or for the state
were Prosecuting Attorney Mcdonald.
Attorney W. A Burritt and Barney
Burritt of Hancock, Eugene A. McNal-
ly of Calumet, p. III. O'Brien of Calu-
met. John Kiiskila of Hancock, and
Harry Corgan of Calumet.
After taking the testimony of the
girl and Derosier woman an adjourn
ment was taken until November %.
The four young men bound over
yesterday for hearing in circuit court,
after waving examination in the local
justice court, on statutory charges OF
n serious nature are Matt Eskola, Oc-
tave Daniels, Leo Zerbal, William La
tourelle and William Dumouthier.
Each furnished bonds i'm the sum of
$1,000 and was allowed To go. girl
arrested on a charge of enticing the
McConville girl into Juntinen's studio
was discharged from custody yester-
day, the prosecutor finding no reason
for holding her, but she was retained
as witness against the other girl.