Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-05-30

Last summer Rosalinda was a sweet
and modest girl. one OF New Yorl
City's Italian community. Her pretty
face n gentle demeanor made hel
friends arnonG the wage-earning. peo-
pie of. her neighborhoOd. She lived ir
a flat at -- West Sixty street
New York City. with her mother. her
younger sister, and her two brothers.
She was 20 years old.
She had q girl friend with whom she
walked and saw the movies" and ate
ice cream. Florence WaS q more ag-
gressive sort of girl, and n who
easily made acquaintance with men,
Rosalinda admired h daring of her
One of their favorite walking places
was Bedford street. n q thoroughfare
of Italian pleasures.
One May day, as they were out for
an afternoon Of fun. a handsome young
Italian stepped up and said: ANY
thing doing. girls?"
The Initial Step.
ROSalinda resented his familiarity
and threatened to complain to the po-
lice. The young man %apologtzed and
said he meant no harm. He had a
charm of n continued to talk
along. He told ROsalinda he owned
the nearby moving picture show. at 80
Bedford street, and that ne also ran a
dyeing n cleaning establishment on
Carmine street. In a few minutes he
had pictured himsel! as u successful
man. OF established position. He In
vited the girls to visit his theater.
Rosalinda refused. and told him II. he
wished to know her he must visit her
at the home of her mother.
/ That WAS tho wov tborx ,n1t ord
separated that day. But the young
p~hiianderer was not without ~sourc
He knew James Cunit0, one OF Flor
ence's friends. n through him ar
ranged a series of meetings. with Rosa
linda. He said his name was Fran
cesco Mariana.
The four of them. James and Flor
ence. Mariana and Rosalinda, went
around together to vaudeville shows.
moving pictures, n ice cream sa-
looms. The acquaintance ripened fast
into endsh In ten days Mariana
told ROsalinda he wished to marry her.
He said he wished to show her how
nicely they could live, and he persu-
AIDED her to accompany him to what
he said were his rooms at SO Charles
street.
When the quartet reached the adj
dress Cunito n Florence remained
downstairs. Mariana took ROsalfnda
n flight up into a fOur-room apart
ment. He led her into the tiny kitchen
and then into a bedroom, where he
Rugged and kissed her. She started
for the door. Mariana drew a revolt
yer and placed 1T at her forehead.
She screamed. No one came.
Rosalinda went home and told her
mother. Next day she and her sister.
Pompflta. Went to the Bedford street
moving picture theater-the one which
Mariana said he owned-and told him
L Hh0R thu 4 ~, e
Ihat night he came to the home. and
admitted to the mother and the sister
that he had wronged ROsalinda. and
tina he intended to marry her. !
The next day. May IA. 1912. Fran
cesco Mariana married Rosaltnda.
He then toe her aboard the train
and told her they were on the way to
Chicago. When they alighted from the
train at La Sale street. Chicago, they
were met by Nino Sacco.
The System at Work.
NinO SaccO hung out on the second
and third floors of 1O1 Twenty-hrst
street.-the southwest corner Of Tween
ty-frst street and Armour. The Sec
ond floor is the notorious cafe Of Jo-
seph Colosimo. The third f.oor is
equipped with the lodgings of Cole
strnO's associates and some of his en-
ployes. Colosime is a we'll known boss
In the vice district. His position among
certain proprfetors proprietresses
that once held by Mike the Pike
Heitler, except tha Mike controlled
the outlaw houses. COlOsimO controls
q section of the segregated district 1T
self. dealing mostly with Italians.
Nino Sacco at that time used the
third nOpr rooms, n was Colosimo's
lieutenant OF the vice traffic. being one
LOT the half dozen. active general man
ayers of the white slave trade In Chi
cag0. IA.
sacco also owns or did own the house
OF prostitution at 1O6 Twenty-hrst
street. just across from the rooms 81
! COl0simo. and SaccO's mistress. Jennie
Dofn0. WAS madam OF thai house. Each
night after business hours Jennie came
over from l0s Twenty-irst street to
the Alhambra hotel, 1880 South State
street, went to Room 81. and turned
over to 4accO the earnings made from
har girls.
As-sOOn AZ ROsalinda stepped of the
train with her husband this Sacco
asked her to become an inmate u HID
106'Twenty-nrst street house. This war
1.-THE nrst she knew Of the reason why.
She had been brought to Chicago. She
turned to her husband and upbra3ded
him. b answered Sacc0 that shs
would not GO. Saccos told her to leave
the depot alone. And this she did. He
feered that some government official
might e two men with one girl and
asrest them "a white siayers. She wait
ed outside In b street, and her hua-
band came out. He took hex to- the Al
hAIlbra lhotek-the hotel where $3.50
and his woman live.
No Italian girl can Ne imported,
II placed. or transferred In the district
rectly / ths Aihambre hotel. Whefs
/ they sreafafAr wliht thar unSw .ex-