The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-04
DEALER IN WOMEN COERESSES
LBVINSON PLEADS GUILTY AND
MAY ne STATES WITNESS.

Pollse seaFchlas fer Helsa Hastings, ~
Years Old. Alleged % Have Been IN
the Possession e the NeUFess Prisoner
-she says she Never had such . GiFl.
The Investigation lntoiths sO-OAlled
white slave trade in New York may be
helped along by Harry Ievinson. who
was indicted ON Monday with a negro
and a muhttO woman for selling white
girls 70 an agent Of the District Attorneys
Office. Lsyinson sent word yesterday TO
tho District Attorney through his counsel
that he was ready 10 plead guilty TO the
charge Of placing Ida Greenberg and
Gussie Enrich with Miller. the District
Attorneys secret agent. for immoral
purposes I.svinsOn il said 20 have
sold. thS.two girls 70 Miller for 80. but
he did not ploadto the charge Of receiving
money. The maximum ponAlty Tor the
crime which he has confessed is three
years In prison and q fine Of $500.
Before making his plea LevinsOn had
a talk with District Attorney Whitman.
What he divulged concerning his asso-
ciates In the trafio In women u KEEPS
secret, but no arrests followed.
Il is probable that LsvinsOn can tell
great deal II he wants TO. According
10 ths Investigators he carried on the
business under pretenoe Of selling rain
coats 20 women In disOrderly houses.
In thiS,way he had tho run Of many places
and knew all the gossip Of the world IN
which he worked.
Assistant District Attorney Reynolds,
who ls In charge Of the investigation.
made public yesterday the name and
description % the eleven year-Old girl
who was found by Miller In the nat OF
Belle Moore. the mulattO procurees.
Miller told Mr. Reynolds that the child
was called Helen Hastings. that abe had
short curly brown hair and dark blue
eyes and that when he saw her she wore
a short skirt and high laced shoes.
District Attorney Whitman 10 chagrined
over the disappearance Of the child and
Yesterday he had a Conference with
Inspeotor Russell Of the Detective Bureau,
who 10 making every effort 10 find her.
Il vas said that Miller. the secret agent
Of the District Attorneys ONCE. had been
instructed 70 find Helen Hastings al any
cost and that he IL making use Of his
n knowledge Of tho business gained during
the Investigation which led TO the recent
arrests.
Assistant District Attorney Reynolds
when asked yesterday Why immedia's
steps had not been taken 20 rescue the
child when she was discovered In this
disorierly house said that 10 have done %
would have been in eject 10 abandon ths
carefully planned Investigation which
at the time the girl was found was nearing
the stage where arrests could 10 made
Il was after the child was seen in th'
hou.a. he said. that the actual purchases
~ women were made This fact, Mr.
REYNOLDS pointed out, made e clear thai
the little girl had not been sent away be
cause Belle Moore or her companions had
become suspicious Of Miller.
IL waa betWeen two and three weeks age
that Miller saw Helen Hastings. AZ thai
time he had called at tho oolored woman {
fat and the child Was ssnt for ~ Were
older RirIs Who we're exhibited % Miller
The agent vas invited 10 look the child
over but vas told that she was recent
acquistion and not for sale When he
returned with instructions 10 secure tbs
child AZ any cost he was Informed that
ab4 had 2prained her ankle and had been
aent awav 20 recover The same story
waa told 20 q negro who assisted Miller
in procuring the svidenoe against Belle
Moore Mr. Reynolds said that there was
every reason 90 believe that the story told
10 Miller and the negro was tTle and that
probably the little gih is now hidden IN
come house Of which the District A.
torney'a ARents have no knowledge Shs
II BY no means the only BTi under - VINO
il al home in the diaor6erly houses OF the
city. said Mr. Reynolds.
Belle moore. the negreas, had denied
through her counsel that Helen HasenG
or any other elsven-year-old nrl wa
seem ~ Miller in her apartments. Miller
was alone when he made che discovery
and he raalized that be had 20 and the
child 20 substantiats his charge.
District Attorney Whitman refused
10 .ay Yesterday WHISTLER OF not the two
college women who helped gather evidences
against the white slavers had testified
before the Grand Jury IL is understood
however, that they did. and Il n probabif
that their names will come out on Thurs
day. when an application made Yesterday
bV the attorney Tor Belle Moore and AleC
Anderson for the names q the District
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