The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03
SCANDAL IN WHITE SLAVE CASE STIRS
 STAID GREENWICH
Runaway Girls Involve PrOmin- ent Men and One Faction Charges Politics In
 Arrests

Greenwich, Conn, Sept. 3-Four men and two girls have been arrested and five more warrants have beeen asked for in a, white slave scandal which has stirred the neighborhood of Port Chester and Greenwich, and has already involved several prominent young men and political leaders of this town.
 The two young women in the case, who were brought here from Tarry- town, N. Y, last week, are now being ' held by the police of Port Chester, awaiting a hearing of the charges against several men, and, while the case is out of the jurisdiction of this State, charges are being made here that the whole thing is a job" ar ranged by one political faction to dis credit its enemies.
 The two young women, Miss Mar jory Brown, eighteen years old, and Miss Agnes Leary, seventeen, were brought here in an automobile, and lodged in rooms over a lunch room opposite the New Haven station. Sun day Miss Leary's father, who is in the employ of Mrs Helen Gould Shep- ard at Tarrytown, appeared here, and told Police Chief Rich of the disap- pearance of the girls after a dance. They were traced to the lunch room, which is managed by Matthew Smith, but there it was learned that the pro prietor had discovered that the girls were being detained there and had ordered Smith to evict them. The girls then went to the Putnam Hotel from which they were taken to the Park Hotel, in Port Chester.
 MT. Leary, with Chief Rich, reached the Putnam Hotel just in time to hear from the proprietor that the girls had been taken to Port Chester. Chief Rich te1ephoned to the Port Chester police, and the girls were seized and placed under arrest. The chauffeur who, called for them, Henry 5Christof- ferson, of Greenwich, was also held as material witness.
 Mrs. Edward O. Parker, probation officer, of Greenwich. went to Port Chester yesterday afternoon, and to her the two girls told a story which caused her to ask for warrants for the arrest of half a dozen young men of this town. Those arrested so far are George E. Aren't, lessee of the Park Hotel, Port Chester; Andrew Fox Frank HaIigan, and Matthew Smith, of Greenwich, and Christonerson, who is detained. as a witness. The case against Aren't will be called before Justice Of the Peace Thomas F. J. Connolly, in Port Chester, today. In the meantime MT. Winslow, District Attorney of Westchester county, has taken charge, and several arrests are expected before tonight
 The girls told Mrs. Parker that they ran away from their homes in Tarry- town on the night of August 18. They went to White Plains, where they said they met several young men from Greenwich, and were induced by them to come here. They arrived when the fair and carnival was at it's height, and at an open air dance were intro duced to several other young men. Smith, they said, gave them shelter in the rooms over the lunch room, where they stayed one day and one night. They then spent a night at the Putnam Hotel, being taken from there to Port Chester by a young man, whose name they gave to Mrs. Parker and the District Attorney.
 The girl made charges against the proprietor of the Park Hotel which keeping a. disreputab1e place and vio- is under legal age the young men ac- cused by her are now held on war rants charging felony. Mrs. Parker sent for a copy of the Mann white slave act in the belief that they can also be punished under that.
 Friends of Judge Tierney, of Green wich, who has had hot political fight on his hands ever since his ap- pointment to the borough judgeship two months ago, declared that his enemies are making capital of the case for political purposes The fight has grown so warm that the town is divided into the Tferney and Bowles factions. Tierney men declare it is significant that all the persons arrest