Evening star., 1911-06-10
Trial of Harry White Awaits
Principal Witness. j
RELEASED ON $500 BOND
Theatrical Agent Accused Of En-.
ploying Girls Under Legal Age. I
CASE OF GERTRUDE ROLLINS
Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Contracts
Tor Position on Stage-Defend-
ant Denies Charge.

Harry White. the theatrical booar1ng
agent. who was arrested last night
charged with sending girls under the legal
age to summer theatrical companies IN the
south. will be tried in the Juvenile Court.
June 20. Pending trial. White is at lib
erty on $500 bond.
The case was continued by Judge CAL
Ian in the Juvenile Court this morning.
Assistant Corporation Counsel George
wishes to have the testimony Of Gertrude
Rollins. a fifteen-year-old girl, who Is
alleged to have been sent by White to
Durham, n. c. The girl will be the
chief prosecuting witness.
The Rollins girl is under arrest In Dur
ham, n. c.
Detective Baur will leave here this
afternoon for Durham to bring her here.
He will probably return in time to have
her in court Monday.
Mrs. Rollins Procures Warrant.
The warrant for Whites arrest was
sworn out by Mrs. Florence Rollins OF 6l3
East Capitol street. charging that White
was responsible for the disappearance Of
her daughter. Other charges will be filed
against White, according to Prosecutor
George. if developments in other cases
connect him with the disappearance OF
young girls now supposed to be with
theatrical companies.
One case IN particular is that OF Ethel
s. Deans, who disappeared from her home
several weeks ago. and was subsequently
found In North Carolina trying to locate
travelling burlesque company.
White admits sending the Rollins girl
away. He says she represented herself
to be nineteen years of age. not fifteen,
as her age was given by her mother He
asserts that the girl brought him a paper
purporting to have been signed by Mrs.
Rollins giving her age at nineteen years.
II have done nothing wrong, knowing
ly. The Rollins girl said she was over
the age limit and submitted a paper to
prove 1t. She wanted a chorus job. got
one for her on a commission basis" said
morning.
White conducts theatrical agency at
lila G street northwest.
Police Notified.
The police were told that the girl left
her home last Thursday. The mother
found q note which the daughter had left
telling her she had gone to join a theat-
rical company.
Inspector Boardman. chief Of detectives.
telegraphed to Durham, N. C.. last night
He asked that effort be made to locate
the girl. This morning a telegram an
nounced her detention.
Mrs. Rollins called at police headouar-
ters yesterday afternoon and told In
spector Boardman her story. Detectives
Baur and Cornwell were assigned to the
case
The detectives learned that White had
secured the Rollins girls name to con-
tract and sent her to North Carolina to
join theatrical company. They arrested
White at his ofice. lila G street. last
night.
White was taken to police headquarters.
Told Of the charge preferred against him.
he declared his innocence,
The police say White is the agent who
secured for Ethel Deans. the seventeen
year-old daughter OF DR.. A. c. Deans OF
100 5th street, q position with a theatri
cal company several weeks ago in Spring
Hope. n. c. She was brought back to
Washington by her father.