The evening world., 1913-12-23
CHILD WHITE SLAVE
Scared WITH IRON
BY BRUTAL cAPTOR
Hired as Housekeeper, Lured
to Flat and Forced to
Life of Shame.

Helen Willoughby told to-day In JEFF
ferson Market Court how she had been
forced to a life Of shame. how she had
been followed always by the Cadet
whose victim she was. and how she
finally escaped and sought police pro-
lection. As a result OF the story of
the seventeen-year-old girl. Magistrate
Campbell held the man she accuses.
Frank Bezzela. in $4,000 bail for ex-
animation Friday.
The girl chung to the arm OF her s.s-
ter. Mrs. Frank Bower Of West FRI
tisth street. Her eyes were fxed on the
wenty-four.year-old youth whom she
charges with sending her out to parade
the streets. = slave. for his financial
gain. Her face had black and blue
marks. and she tenderly nursed an arm
that had been burned with . poker.
Now and then . spasm Of pain crossed
her face and she placed . hand just
above her heart. where there 10
wound made by . stiletto.
Bsssela, who In case Of conviction.
faces . term Of nifty years In States
prison. was arrested after q terrific
nsht In his apartment at No. a6s West
hirty.seventh street last night by De-
tectives Mahoney. Dolan and Finn.
Since Sunday. when the frightened girl
slipped away from her pursuer. the de-
tectivss had been looking for him. Ma
horey narrowly escaped death a. Ne
wrestled with the pajama-clad man. who
was armed with the Same st.letto the
Willoughby girl says was one Of her
torture Instruments. The other officers.
who had climbed the fre escape. broke
through Q window and Bezzela was sub
dued.
GIRL IN OPIUM sTUPoR SLEPT
THROUGH FIGHT.
Through II all slept another young girl
Carrie De Mar. formerly Of Boston-
who had been living at Bath Beach. A
complete opium layout was found. and
the detectives say this girl had sunk
into . stupor from the effects OF the
drug. She said she had come to Beg
sela's Nat only yesterday. having met
the man In a restaurant. the same place
where the wtlloughby CIR! says she en-
countcred him.
In . low voice Helen W!lloughby told
Of her experiences since meeting the
man Thanksgiving Day.
II needed work." she said. land was
looking for q Job In a restaurant.
saw that man watching me and / was
afraid Of him. He asked me "
wanted to work for him; he said he
needed some one to be his house
keeper. Oh. II had only known what
the work really was.
II went TO his nat on Thirty-sevsnth
street. He sad he would pay me good
wages and he smiled At me. But. OH
how he changed when We got to the
nat. He locked the door. and I will
never forget his look a. he turned Il
me again. Then he attacked mo and
after that drew q knife and said he
would kill me II ever told anybody
what had happened.
Il waa so frightened I could haryil,
walk. but he made me go out into tn,
street. and he told me he would be FOL
lowing me all the time. with that knife
90 II told a sinsle person or called Z
policeman. he would kill me no matter
what happened to him. I could see /,
his eyes that he meant II. and / di,
what ne asked"
sTAesEo BECAUSE she FAlLEI
TO MAKE MONEY.
He told me would have to brini
lot Of money to him every night oh
II was horrible! On Dec. 10 I returne,
to tho nat with less money than h
thought ! ought to have made. II
stabbed me. ! thought was going L
die. but he roughly attended to tn
wound and told me to watch out wha
did or l would set II worse.
The next night l came In with onl
little money and he seized a poke
and burned my arm SO that II stil
hurts. Other times he beat me wit
= heavy curtain pole"
Mrs Bower. the girls sister. toll
the reporter the same story
Detective Manoney and Dolan secure
from the mans fat poker. with while
the ENl says she was burned; a curtai
pole one and one-half inches thick an
IN opium layout. They are OF the opr
ION that the arrest Of BasseiA nipped l
the bud an extsnaive plan to lure
number OF girls into the nat and sen
them out a. white slaves. They all
seissd tho stiistto said TO have bee
/ used by the accused man. The prison,
. save his occupation - . barber and b
, address % No. ioao Fox strost, Il
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