The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-23
Unable to Furnish Bond Of 81 900
Which Is Fixed In the Case Of
Fort Madison Mer-
chant Today.
BROTHERS WE'RE HERE
Bond VIII Likely be Furnished This
Evening and zeldls Released to
Appear Before Dis
trIot Court.

officer William Wilson returned last
night from FIT Madison with Maurice
Zeldis and Virginia Baldwin. who
We're arrested by the police of that
city upon request from the local po-
lice department
Miss Baldwin was sent home in
charge Of her father and Zeldis was
locked up in the city jail. When seen
this morning Zeldis looked as though
he had spent sleepless night, but did
not seem worried in regard to the
strong case the state has built around
his actions with the pretty sixteen
year old girl whom he is said to have
enticed away for immoral purposes.
II would rather wait and have you
talk to my lawyers said Zeldis, peer
t ing from behind the bars at the police
station, this morning.
There is nothing to the story about
my enticing the girl away. l met her
Monday night in the store of friend
of mine, after I had gone there when
II finished buying stock of shoes
from the shoe factory. She and
another girl, who worked in the store
came UP to me and began talking to
me and invited her to go to supper
and the theatre and she accepted the
| invitation. took her home immed.
lately after the performance. intend
ed going home on the night train, but
| she asked me for position In my
store in Ft. Madison and told her
would give her place, and that she
could come up in the morning. She
said for me to wait and go up with her
and told her would. She said she
was eighteen years old and when
met her yesterday morning, she said
she had told her folks about it and
they did not object"
did you intend to marry herr" he
was asked.
II never had any intention of marry
ing her" was the reply.
/ zeldis said he had been in Fl. Mad
son for about eleven months and had
gone there from Burlington. where his
people lived at present.
Miss Baldwin told Chief Kenney
that she had gone to FIT. Madison to
work for Zeldis and that there was
nothing wrong about her actions.
Zeldis appeared in superior court
this morning accompanied by his two
brothers, from Burlington, and his at
ltorney, Mr.. Blood. Neither Miss Bald.
win or her parent or brother was there
to see him arraigned.
After reading the information to
Zeldis, Judge Mcnamara in response
to his plea of not guils., fixed his
bond at $1,000. His brothers signed
the bond and then took it to Burling
ton at neon to get more names upon
lit. They said they would return te
Keokuk tonight and have their broth
err released
The general opinion around town is
that the state cannot convict Zeldis
i because they cannot show that he en-
ticed the girl away from her home
l According to both stories told by Miss
Baldwin and Zeldis, she went to TT
Madison with the intention of going
to work and unless the girl changes
her story 1t will he a hard matter tc
prove the guilt of Zeldis.
1t is said that the man under arrest
comes from a well known family il
/ Burlington and that this is the first
time he has ever been in trouble. He
is in charge OF the Boston store in FIT
Madison, which is owned by his father
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