The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-08-06
Asked for His Release.

| Samuel Schaffer, who has been in iai
on charge of endeavoring to secure tn,
services of girl for immoral purposes
under the pretense of employing her as {
waitress, was before Judge Horner yester
day under writ of habeas corpus, asking
to be released from incarceration.
The girl, who gave her age as II years
was named Elizabeth Pulitzer until about
two weeks ago when she was married anc
her name is now Elizabeth Nevius She
is refined looking lady and told hel
story in straightforward manner.
She said that Schaffer went to an EN-
ploYment Office in Philadelphia and saw
her. He showed her some circulars de
scribing his place near Florence as sum
mer resort, and on paper the project
seemed to be fine. Before going to Flor.
ence she met man named Weinthorpe,
who. said he had been sent by Schaffer to
give Elizabeth some instructions. The
girl went to Florence and found things
entirely different from what were repre-
sented. The house was there but that
was about all. The place was poorly fur
nished, without carpets on the floor, there
was lack of chickens, cows and other
farm accessories, and the beautiful lake"
was not in sight.
There was woman there named Mrs.
Marquise. She commented on Elizabeth s
looks and told her that girl of her ap
pearance ought to be able to make lots of
money, that there were plenty of men
who came to the house who would give
her tips of one and two dollars. Eliza
beth said she would be satisfied with
smaller tips. She had not been at the
house more than a day when she came to
the conclusion it was not the kind of a
place that had been represented to her.
Several men came one evening and drank
beer and appeared to be rough, so she ran
to the woods and hid. While there Vein
thorpe and a man named DR.. Somers
passed near where she was, and she heard
one of them say this must be the place >
After they had gone to the house she re-
turned and confided to Weinthorpe her
ideas about the house and told him she
was afraid to go to bed. He told her to
go and that he would watch over her dur
ing the hight. After she had been in bed
for some time the doctor went to her
room and sat on the side of her bed and
told her he wanted to talk over the matter
with her, to which she replied he could
talk to her In the daytime. He got into
her bed and she jumped out Weinthorpe,
as his testimony will show later, heard
enough to arouse his suspicious and he
went and ordered the doctor out. The
next day the girl went away from the
place.
Frank Weinthorpe said he met Schaffer
in Philadelphia and the latter gave him
some circulars setting out the beauties of
his summer resort" Attracted by the
wording Weiuthorpe and DR.. Somers
decided to go there to get rid of the din
of the Fourth of July. They got there
after dark and after rambling around
came across a house which they took to
be the resort" Weinthorpe said this
must be the place" They went to the
porch and soon after Elizabeth came
along. Weinthorpe asked her how she
liked her place and she told him her story.
She expressed fear of staying over night
and Weinthorpe told her to go to bed, he
would see that she was not disturbed. He
and the doctor were given a room to-
gether and after awhile the doctor went
out. Weinthorpe had his suspicious as to
where the doctor had gone so he listened
and thought he heard cry. He went to
Elizabeth's room, knocked and entered.
He found the girl out of bed, the doctor
just getting out. The two men had some
hard words and the doctor was finally
given another room. There was nothing
further that night and the next day he
saw that the girl got safely away. Before
the doctor went to Elizabeth's room
Schaffer went to where the men were and
told them 1t was all right for them to go
to the girls room.
Other testimony was introduced to show
that there had been illegal sales of liquor
and Judge Horner said it was perfectly
apparent what the intention of Schafer
was in opening the house, SO he refused
to release him, but sent him back to Jail
to stay there until he can furnish 5000
bail.