Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-04-22
los Angeles County Grand
Jury Called on to InveSti-
gate the Alleged Wholesale
Trafficking in Girls,
RICH MEN INVOLVED
IN GRAVE SCANDAL
Woman Who is Said to Have
Acted as Procurer for the
Wealthy Men Taken in Gus
tody on Felony Charge,
D., MornInr JournaI speeIaI I.en.ed VIC


lBy Morning journal special Icnscd Wirel
Los Angeles. April 2l-George II.
Bixhy, "A millionaire of Long Beach,
was served today with a subpoena
demanding his presence in a justice
court next wednesday afternoon as
"a witness In the case of Mrs. Josie
Rosenberg alias Mrs. Emma Jose
phine Goodman, arrested on felony
charges connected with white slave
ilegatiuns This was the days most
important development in the sensa
tional case barred by the police who
declared that their Investigation Tend
ed to connect several wealthy ana
Influential citizens with the alleged
ouslavement of torty-one young girls.
Mrs. Rosenberg according to phe
police. conducted "A so-cailcd lodging
house known as "rhe Jonquil where
many Nuung girls, gathered from de-
partment stores. restaurants and
ether places of employ yment. were al
legged 10 have been lured To meet
wealthy men, Among them, the po-
lice named Mrs Irene Marie Brown
Levy. who will not bee n years old
Gntl June T. next, and who was
brought back here from Redlandsl
where she was alleged To have been
hiding. According to the officers who
brought her back. Mrs. Levy expressed
willingness to tell of the acts IN
which she and other girls were said
10 have participated at The jon
aul'
Mrs LeYy's statements 20 the police
were said to involve prominent mii-
lionaire, who was known among his
dupes and cadets as THE Slack
Pearl" because of setting of a scarf
pin he always wore. At times, how
ever he was said to have been known
simply as Mr. King tribute, II
was declared. to his majestic disregard
for money The true name of THE
Black Pearl" is known To the police,
but has not been revealed
when Mrs. Rosenberg was arrest
ed the detectives said, they found ~
her pocket the photograph of an at
torney of this city, said to'have peen
the legal adviser of the women ana
OF the men for whom she Is charged
with having acted as procurer
It was not until the Levy girl WIS
brought back from Redlands that the
officers thought they had sufficient
evidence to warrant placing the
The county grand jury Is expected
TO take some definite action on the
case tomorrow
The names of fOrty-One girls. all
under II years of age and most OF
them not yet past Is, were given TO
the county grand jury today when II
was asked to investigate white slaV-
cry charges in which a number ot
tstt If.ts. tsT. taftt. 4 tn ii
girls Systematically from home and
placed them in protected resort.
Affidavits of four OF these girls al
ready have been obtained, and ac-
cording to the allegations contained
in their sworn declarations the mill
licnaires Investigated had "A complete
organization for the trapping of girls.
There were cadets in their employ
and "A we'll known attorney who. be-
sides being involved in the actual en-
shaving Of the girls. also is alleged
TO have spirited away one of the
young women who revealed the at
eyed facts of the case after she had
been threatened with prosecution Tor
attempted blackmail.
The first information OF the .'se
came to the police and the district
attorney when Katherine Phillips was
arrested for alleged blackmail On
Information furnished by her Mrs
Josie Rosenberg woman giving the
name Of Mrs j. Badger T.. j. DAVIS
and Frank Copeland were arrested
ana charged with being procurers.
Mrs Rosenberg was keeper of the
resort IN the downtown business sec
tion at which THE Black Pearl" IS
alleged to have met his victims and
introduced his friends. Mrs. Badger
Davis and Copeland were alleged to
he her assistants
The girls We're gathered BY the l1o
clirers from department stores. cafes,
cafeterias and restaurants. Several OF
them were well paid. According 70
the police. Miss Brown, for whom
search was made in san Francisco to-
day. received $4,000 Just before she
Katherine Phillips Helen Barker.
Myrtle Adair and Marie Brown are
the names Of girls who have told of
their relations with the alleged mil
llonaire white slavery crew Detec-
tives went to San Bernardino today to
bring back Marie Brown, who, it is
claimed was taken 10 that city hy
private detectives employed by the
white slaNers to prevent her telling