The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-20
White Slaves Story
 Stirs Up The Court
Jurors Murmur, Their Fists Clenched, and Cry Out in Protest Against Cross
 Examination
SOLD AND BEATEN, GIRL SAYS
Managed to Tell Her Unhappiness at Last to Her Respectable Family in PittSburgh-Their Iden-
 tity Hidden.

New York, Oct. 20-Before Judge Foster, in General Sessions, yester- day, Elois Wendt of Pittsburgh, Pa., T-year-old girl, small for her age, related in clear, childish voice how Philip Solow, barely of age himself, had wrecked her life by selling her into white slavery The nervous strain grew so strong during her tes- timony that the jurors squirmed around in their seats and whispered excitedly together. Some ofe them even clenched their fists and glared at the defendant. He sat at the lawyers table, grinning and shaking his head.
 The dramatic interest aroused by the girls direct examination was dou- bled when in cross-examining her Solow's counsel, Hugo Levy, repeated ly demanded whether she was telling the truth. His attitude caused Judge Foster to interrupt him several times. Once, Assistant District Attorney Wasservogel, who is appearing for the prosecution, threw his pencil on, the table in front of him in protest and the jurors murmured among them selves In telling her story the girl Said she first met Solow in private house in Pittsburgh at a rehearsal of a thea trical performance. He told her he was an actor and asked her to marry him. She agreed and in the latter part of March they eloped and came to this city. He took her to a fur nished room house in Thirteenth street, near Sixth avenue, and, refus- Ing to marry her, brought men into the place to see her. They then moved to house in St. Marks Place From there he took her to a woman and left her.
 T didn't like the woman," said the girl. ''She scolded me because re- fused to do as she said, so I cried and she said to a man in the place, T don't dare keep her. That night the defendant came and took me away. He made me write a letter to my par ents in Pittsburgh saying that was we'll and happy, but wrote the let
 ter in German. My father knew that language and the defendant did not. did not dare tell much, but let papa know that was unhappy. I told the defendant that papa under stood only German"
 Lawyer Levy, for the defense. sprang to his feet, waving the letter over his head, and asked that it be put in evidence. Assistant District Attorney Wasservogel agreed at once and read the letter to the jury. It said:
 ocdT IdToulS- IOu CdnuOC lIndSlH0 how sorry am that I ever left you. Only to be with you again is my great joy. Oh, papa, I wish I had remained with you. How happy I would be! My husband is good to me. There is nothing he doesn't do for me- ! get all desire and am satisfied. If I only had seen you before I left, Philips parents are good to me. but I want you. Can you forgive me? Should return home would you love me as before?
 There is nothing without parents, and at night I cry until I fall asleep. Oh, my God, how could I have been so stupid as to leave you, my good to write more. We have just come from the theatre. Good by, good par ents. May God bless you with help and happiness. Your loving child.
 "ELOIS."
 The letter was translated by MT. Wasservogel. Once the jury shouted out the English translation of a Ger man sentence when it puzzled him, and it developed that eight of the jurors knew German.
 The girl, continuing her story, said that .Solow took her to a place in West F'ifty-seventh street and left her there, but came and took all her money. He beat her when she didn't have enough. At this point the jur- ors and some of the spectators be- came so interested in the girls story that they began to discuss it aloud. | Judge Foster asked for order, and the girl went on. She stayed in the place in Fifty sixth street for some time, but finally l she escaped with the help of one of | the inmates, who took her to another 1 place in Fifty-sixth Street For | some tim a che xyaS fir nf was trying to get back home without | involving her parents. One night Solow discovered where she was and | came to the Fffty-sixth Street place. | When she refused to give him money. she said, he jumped at her, ana knocking the teeth out of a. man who 1 endeavored to protect her. He re- | leased her in a short time aifd struck | her blow on the head knocking her unconscious. enough money to take her to Pitts l burgh to her parents. They still be- | lieved her to be married, and she was afraid to tell the truth because her father was not in the best of health, l and she feared she might cause him to have relapse. She told them finally, and returning to this city had | Solow arrested. He was held for the Grand Jury by Magistrate Fresch1.
 At this point Lawyer Levy took up | tie cTOSS-0AdmlndClOn, asking the | girl why she had testified in the po- lice court that she was 20 years old.
 Because the woman of the Fifty sixth street place, who was a witness for me, told me to, saying that she would get arrested if I did not" she | replied.
 MT. Levy asked her question after question in an effort to get her to contradict her testimony
 Are you telling me the truth now or are you lying?" he asked repeat, edly.
 Once he asked her if she knew one Abraham Kantel. She said she had been introduced to him by Solow in the Thirteenth street house. Mir. Levy asked her if she hadn't gone to Boston with Kantel. She denied that she had, and Levy called Kantel into the courtroom. As he entered sever al of the spectators began to laugh 1 historically. The jurors looked first began to talk together, while the de- fendant whispered to his counsel kantel was told to leave the room, and MT. Levy began to ask the girl the same questions. One of the jur- ors became so exasperated that he said:
 You don't know what you are talking about"
 Judge Foster rapped for order. and told Levy to confine himself to ques- tiOns he had not asked before. The l lawyer asked only few more ques- tions and Judge Foster then adjourn ed the case until today. Several more | witnesses will be put on the stand by |