Evening journal., 1912-03-26
HARRIS CASE
TANCLES SQUIRE
Warning Lawyers, After Many
Tits, Cause Magistrate
to Withhold BeCiSiOn
GIRL WITNESS TELLS
CONFLICTING STORIES

The case Of Emma Harris, proprietor
bf a house of alleged III repute in Tat
nall street, near Third, who was
charged before Magistrate Gluckman
yesterday afternoon with harboring
Helen Gould Williams. whose mother
says she is 16 years old and married.
occupied the attention of the court for
several hours and resulted in several
tilts between lawyers on each side.
After the case had been closed and
reopened several times the magistrate
finally reached the conclusion 10 hold
the defendant in 81 900 bail for an
other week, at the expiration OF which
time he would announce his decision.
The arrest of the Harris woman was
brought about by the Law and order
Society. Caleb E. Burchenal and Hor-
ACC c. Eastburn prosecuted the case
and the defendant was represented by
Robert H. Richards and ]. Frank Ball.
During the proceedings Deputy City
Solicitor John Lynn also was drawn
into the case and he and Mr.. Burchen-
al became involved in several lively
Tits.
Mr.. Burchenal described tho GUS
toms in vogue in the City Court as
fool customs" At another time Mr.
Lynn angrily took Mr. Eastburn to
task for giggling at him while he was
speaking.
The case attracted much attention,
and among those present 10 hear it
were Chief OF Police George Black,
Frank Stout special agent for the S.
" G. c.. H. Ross Farra. probation Of
hcor; Deputy City Solicitor John
Lynn. Lewis Sasso. clerk Of the City
Court. Some of these were involved as
Witnesses before the case was dispos-
ed Of for the day.
The Harris wo IAN was arraigned
IA the City Court on q similar charge
some time ago She was dismissed by
Judge Joslyn without hearing any tcs-
limony Mr. Lynn. who is the prose
cutting officer la the City Court. recon-
mcnded thai the defendant be dismiss
I'd there. Tho second warrant from
ihc magistrates Office. and sworn out
by the Law aud order Socictys at
lOncys came as "a surprise.
The principal witness was the Will
liams girl She is married though
only sixteen years old. II came cut
during the hearing that the nan she
married was bigamist
The young woman testified that she
lived at No ais East Sixth street
On February 10, she said she met a
young woman at the Pennsylvania
railroad station and they spoke of
ways and means of making liycli-
hood. Witness said the woman told
her to go to the Tatnall street house,
ask for the woman of the house and
see II she could not get work there.
The witness said her friend told her
"a say she was more than is years
Of age when she applied. Tho Wit
ness told OF going TO the house and
meeting the manager and OF the talk
they had. She said she told the wo-
man she was either % or 23 years OF
age. The witness said the woman
told her the girls gave her So "a week
and half of what she earned AZ
ter one night in the house the girl
said che was taken out by the po-
lice.
Cross examined by Mr. Ball, the
girls memory was hazy on several
subjects. She said she had admit
ted in the presence of Chief Black.
Agent Stout and Mr.. Lynn that she
had told the girl at the station that
she had been put out Of her home.
She could not remember, however,
whether she told the woman at the
house that she was a stranger here
and that she Was ON her way to New
York and had missed the train. aud
had no place TO 60 She could not
remember telling the woman that she
bad nothing TO eat from o'clock the
morning she appeared at the house.
Mrs. Gertrude Gibbs. the mathor "
the girl, testified to her age. and said
hat the man her daughter had mar
ried had another wife living
Chief of Police Fiack was called ia
Identify the Harris woman as the de-