South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-26
PHILANTHROPY IS
BLAMED BY B|XBY
FOR HIS ARREST
Claims He Gave Girls Various
Amounts as He Was Inter
eSted in Their Cases and
Wanted Them to Live Better

Los ANGELES. Calf, Sept 26.-
George II. Bixby. the Long Beach mil
lionaire on trial for alleged offenses
against girls. took the witness stand
in his own behalf Thursday and max
ing a general denial of all accusa-
tiOns against him, asserted that his ac-
quaintance with inmates of the Jon
quill. a notorious resort, had been
gained entirely through philanthropy
Bixby said he first met Emma ].
Goldman. prOprietoress of the Jonquil
now serving a year in the county jail
in the autumn of 1907. She was in
trOduced to him as Mrs. Josie ROsen-
berg.
Il had received from Randsberg.
Calf, a request TO aid an inmate of
Mrs. Rosenbergs establishment" he
explained.
1T was a girl named Marian, who
was i'll. l became interested in her
ana gave her 500 so that she might
go home to her mother. Later / gave
Mrs Rosenberg $500 more to give to
the girl. Marian is now married and
living a respectable life.
Used the Name King.
Mrs. Rosenberg suggested that I
might be talked about if were
known at her place by my true name.
so I used the first one which came
into my mind&King."
An attorney interrupted to ask if
BiXby had not previously given an
other 500. The witness said he had,
as he had been sorry for her.
BiXby said that Mrs. Rosenberg
moved to a new neighborhoOd and
for four years he knew nothing con-
corning her.
lone day" he continued. "she tele-
phoned TO me that there was in her
place a girl who was the mother of a
child, and needed help. ] called at
the house and found the girl who tes-
titled against me here under the name
of Nieblas."
Mrs. Rosenberg said the girl want
ed to buy a rOOming house, so 1 gave
her $500. Later l gave her $1,000
more. Then 1 went on a vacation and
when i returned Mrs Rosenberg told
me the girl had invested the money
fOolishly in a poor place. l then gave
$4,000 more with which to buy anoth
er rooming house. L gave her $4,000
in ALL
Met Helen Barker.
II met Helen Barker at the Jonquil
last January when l called there TO
learn how the Nieblas girl was pro-
crossing. She told me her mother
lived in Grand Rapids, Mich. and
that she wanted 10 see her. | gave
her fifty dollars. Mrs. Rosenberg told
me the Barker girl wanted TO marry a
young man who was working in a
shooting gallery. | went back with
$500 more the same day. Two weeks
later 1 saw the girl again. She said
she had foster parents living at Clare
mont. Calf. and wanted TO provide
for them. I gave her $500 more.
Il never saw the girl again until
she testified against me in the court
room"
Bixby swore that of the other girls
who testified against him he knew
only One-Grace Redwine. He denied
in detail all accusations of immortality.
When he was examined, the prose-
cutiOn began an attempt 10 impeach
his testimony. Arguments over the
admissibilitv Of the evidence of one
Of the accusing girls were not con-
cluded when court adjourned.
OctaviUF Morgan. the aged architect
again prT ed an unwilling witness
today replying TO nearly all
the questions that TO answer them
would degrade him. He admitted.
however having given a total OF
S2.5O0 TO girls in the Jonquil