The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-30
GUILTY SECRETS
 KEPT BY COURT
 TO SAVE HOMES
Authorities Have Names of Friends of Girl Children, But Publicity Would Cause Innocent to Suffer. Prominent New Haven Bus mess Men and Yale Stu dents Are Implicated By the Wayward Girls.

Before Judge Wilder, in a special session of the city court in chambers, today, Martha Mitchell, the 16 years old Bridgeport girl, missing in New Haven all last weeek, swore that she had in New Haven a number of :lc- quaintances among the Yale students who would provide her with enough funds to "get by.''
 This statement came in the form of an admission when the girl was under cross examination by counsel for Harry Kessner, the alleged white shaver, arrested in connection With her disappearance.
 Four persons were on trial. Harry Kessner was charged with having at tempted to place the Mitchell girl In an immortal resort, also with having committed an indecent assault; ing committed an indecent assault upon May Lofthouse, aged 15; and the Lofthouse and Mitchell girls were charged with being incorrigibles.
 Kessner is a painter, aged 20, liv- ing in a furnished room at 59S East, Main street; Baker is a laborer, IS, living with his parents at 118 Caro- line street; May Lofthouse was em- ployed in the Bryant Electric Co.,, and made her home with her parents in Brooks street, formerly in Roose- welt street; and Martha MitchelIs home was alternately with her mar ried sister, at Barnum avenue and East Main street, and with her fath-' CT at 40 Kossuth street.
 To add to the shocking conditions surrounding the girls experiences, Prosecutor Delaney today told Judge Wilder that the Mitchell girl is not overbright.
 Judge Wilder allowed a continu- ance in the case of Kessner until to- morrow, to give his counsel, Attorney look into the law covering the of fences alleged against his client. He held Baker in bail of $400 for trial in the next term of the Superior court, in February, and committed both girls ss incorrigibles. the Loft school in Middletown, and~the Mitch-. ell girl to the Home of the Good Shepherd, in Hartford. Martha Mitchell is Is, and beyond the age limit fixed for the commitment of girls to the Industrial school.
 Vague hints that a number of oth- CT men were involved in the police investigation into the stories of the two girls took tangible shape during the cross examination of the Mitchell. girl.
 She was telling of her arrival in New Haven, Monday night, when she and the Lofthouse girl went to the home of a man they knew there, a bookkeeper.
 What's his name?" queried Attor- ney Cohn.
 Prosecutor Delaney interrupted.
 For the sake of the society in which we live" said he, let us avoid this scandal. I have this name-and other names. They are downstairs" said he, indicating the detective fcrix o11 f, But let us not break up any homes unnecessarily
 Attorney Cohn withdrew his ques- ton, and thanked Prosecutor De- Laney for the suggestion.
 The Mitchell girl testified that she and May Lofthouse were with Baker and another young man, late Satur- day night, when Kessner met them near the Stratford avenue bridge. They were starting for the Arlington hotel, they said, when he took them to his room. Baker and he and the girls spent the night there, and next day they started for New Haven. Martha continued that Kessner met her in New Haven the next day and they set out to look for a resort of the sort in which he planned to place her. He met with no success, she said. Then they Quarrelled.
 The LOfthouse girl testified to the conversation between the bellboy and Kessner, verifying also the. details of the night before the girls went to New Haven. She said the bellboy told the girls they ought to try not to fall into such lives, and provided them with money to return home, and also told Kessner he ought to be jailed for talking that way to such young girls. The Mitchell girl was asked if her student friends did not include a Yale student living in hecI neighborhood. She answered in the affirmative. At this juncture, Prose- cutor Delaney made the suggestion that ended further inquiry along that line.
 During the trial young Baker grin- ned at the reminiscence of the girls. and Judge Wilder reprimanded him