The Cairo bulletin., 1910-05-09
TO SELL
GIRL Of ELEVEN
-
SENSATIONAL ASPECT TO WHITE
SLAVE CASE IN NEW
YORK CITY.
THREE SUSPECTS HELD
Bail For Each Fixed at S15,0o0-De
tectives Search Hospitals For
child--TWo Men and
Woman Held.

new 1Ofk, May o.--WlIQ the IOInDs
sheltering the negress and the two
men charged with having sold young
white slaves to colleg women acting
as detectives for the grand jury, a
score OF detectives are visiting hos.
pitals seeking another girl who was
to have been bartered.
She is child Of eleven years, II
the story told to District Attorney
Whitman's two women detectives by
belle Moore, the negress, has any
foundation. The women say she has
represented the girl as particularly at
tractiye and demanded a high Tiite
for her based on her youth and Til.
risk run in such sale. The child
she said had been in her custody for
some weeks,
Anxious to find this girl. the detec-
tiyes talked about her on a subse.
Quent visit and they say Belle Moore
expressed her regret that she could
not get the girl for them, saying II
had been necessary to take her to a
hospital. The detectives could not
learn In what institution the girl was
and fear of arousing suspicion deter.
red them from appearing too solicit
Gus about her.
District Attorney Whitman, as well
as Mr.. Rockefeller, foreman Of the
grand jury, and Assistant District a..
torney Reynolds are hoping that from
some source win come additional in
formation concerning high offipial
In the police department whose name
was freely mentioned during the
transactions What they learned
about this man convinces them, NOR
ally. that he was eognizant of the
traffic in young girls and that there
was substantial reason for his blind
ness concerning the trading. SO fal
no politicians have been named in
the revelations
Each Held in $4,000.
The lawyer remarked ii was oil b
sensational play" but the magis
trate required bail of $4,000 in each
case. The woman and Anderson were
taken to the Tombs The examination
was set for tomorrow afternoon, but
before that time indictments against
the accused will be returned by the
grand jury to Judge O'Sulliyan.
Mr.. Press then moved that the SO,
600 bail for Levinson be increased BY
half. Magistrate Breen agreed, thr
amount was increased to $4,000 ant
Levinson was taken to the Tombs.
Both Mr.. Whitman and Mr.. Rey
nolds praised the dsinterested cour
age and teuaety displayed by tht
women detectives, both Of whom art
college graduates The task they I'M
dertook was appalling in its nature
and its difficulties, for they were
brought in contact with the deprayet
of both sexes.
Business" Was Slack.
One man whom they met, whose
boast was that he was the greatest
trafficker in women, said to them:
Business has been very slack thi'
winter. just because that grand jur,
and Rockefeller and Whitman are
,nosing around so much. am afrait
to do anything for | do not know a.
what minute they might get me. 4
year or two ago could have giveI
you all the young girls you wanted
They were so plentiful and the risl
was so small that could let you have
them for $5 or $40 apiece. But now
/ wouldn't take $1,000 and try to sci
"a girl to any one"
With all this precaution. once they
had satisfied the traffickers they were
what they pretended to be, the won
en- detectives found little difficulty In
opening negotiations for purchase.