The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-03
HUSBAND. SPANISH LOUIS"
WARNS HER AGAINST VISIT
Plot 10 Murder Her Before She
Tells Of Police Graft, Escaped
Thug in Doorway
lRy Associated preaa.l

New York, Aug 3.-When Mrs
Marie Mason Pullman Bassi. VINO
says her first husband was the late
George W. Pullman of Chicago,
nephew OF the founder of the Pull
man palace car business, walked
through the tenderloin today on her
way to a police station painted wom-
en- of the streets turned and quietly
cursed her
They remember the woman VINO
converted Spanish Louis Bassl
three years ago and took him be-
fore tie federal grand jury with the
result that twenty notorious trat.
fekers in women went 10 federal
penitentiaries They quietly cursed
her and said they hoped the next at
tempt to kill her would prove sue
cessful
Plot to Kill Fails.
The first attempt. made last night
hours after Mrs Bassi arrived ~
New York from Boston 10 aid in the
effort to uncover police graft, was
foiled only because the little woman
kept her nerve with her.
The plan to kin me Was hatched
IN Boston she said today, and
was shadowed from the instant 4
lelt thc Grand Cenuai statioit lns
gangsters, men who prcy on the
women OF the underworld. tried 70
kin me as the gamblers killed Rosen
thal--lbecause they knew | would
talk
Mrs. Bassi. followed for three
hours. was attacked by a man ~
hallway OF 30l West Twenty Seventh
street The assailant tried desper-
ately TO garrote her SNe struggled
and tore from his grasp, Then, as
a stall he seized her purse con
tanning $l3, and fed. TWO hours
later detective to whom she ap
pealed followed her into a cafe 10
West Twenty4fdshth street and ar
rested a man whom she pointed
out.
Before Magistrate Corrigan today
the man, Who gave the name OF
Felix B0sergucr. denied his guilt
but was held without bail on the
charge of robbery and was commit
ted to the Tombs to await the ac-
tion OF the grand jury.
Mrs. 3assi to-day cold the following
remarkable story OF her family con-
nccti0ns aud the underworld and her
work in it:
My first husband was George Il.
Pullman Of Chicago, nephew Of the
founder OF the Pullman Palace Car
company We had three children.
He left me widow some years ago.
Meets Louis Bassi
in i9og was employed by the
Womens Municipal league 10 inYes-
tigate the white slave traffic IN New
York and the things ! learned were
horrible During that Investigation
the federal grand jury TOOK np the
cases and as result a number Of
men were arrested among Them
was Spanish Louis" Bass
He was held in the Tombs and as
an investigator I went to see him.
He was attracted by me and | liked
him finally converted him I
thought and he promised to live a
clean life in future. He even went
SO far as to appear before the fed
era grand jury at my request and
as result Of his testimony more
than twenty white slayers We're sent
10 the peuitentiary. Then mar
ried Spanish Louis because love-i
him
We had one child, now . IL
years Old She was called Frances
Louise. ] loved her dearly Bu1 soon
after her birth learned that my
husband had not reformed He was
back in the old crowd all the time
and J could do nothing with him
one of his best friends was shapiro,
the man Who drove the murder ear
that carried the slaycrs OF Rosen
thai
Two years ago Spanish Louis
deserted me and Went to Boston
taking our baby with him follow
ed him there and had the baby sent
to- O nursing home. where my hyS.
and supports her, J do not Tive
with my husband. dut always com
municate with him. He is assistant
head waiter in Maxim's cafe in Bos-
ton.
81 furnished George Kibhe Turner
with all the evidence he had in his
famous expose OF the white slave
traffic and for it was hated by the
dealers in white slaves. Lately L
took this matter up with a New York
newspaper ana BY it was summon
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