The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-22

face and gentle demeanor made her
friends among the w~age-earning peo-
pie OF her neighborhood. She lived in
a fiat at - West Sixty street,
New York City. with her mother. her
younger sister and her two brothers.
She was 20 a old.
She had a girl friend with whom she
walked and saw the movies" and ate
Ice cream: F~iorence was a more ag-
gressive sort of girl. and one who
easily made acquaintance with men.
Rosalinda admired the daring of her
companion. and let her do the leading.
One Of their fayorite walking places
was Bedford street. that thoroughfare
of Italian pleasures.
One May day, as they were u for
an afternoon Of fun, a handsome young
italian stepped up and said: ANY
thing doing, girls?'' 49,
The Initial Step.
Rosalinda resented his familiarity
n threatened to complain to the po-
lice. The young man apologized and
said he meant no harm. He had q
charm OF manner and continued to talk
along. He told Rosalinda he owned
the nearby moving picture show, at 50
Bedford street, and that ne also ran a
dyeing and cleaning establishment on
Carmine street. In a few minutes he
had pictured himself as a successful
man, Of established position. He In
yited 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 the way they met and
separated that day. But the young
philanderer was not without resources.
He knew, James Cunito, one Of Flor
Il nnnnfo HfrtaTdo q N1 khNna,ewI bswa4 -
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, and ice cream sa-
looms. The acquaintance ripened fast
into friendship. 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 ad-
dress Cunito and Florence remained
downstairs. Mariana took Rosalinda
one flight up into a four-room apart
ment. He led her into the tiny kitchen
and then into a bedroom, where he
Rugged n kissed her. She started
for the door. Mariana drew a revolt
Yer and placed it at her forehead.
She screamed. No one came.
Rosalinda went home and told her
mother. e day she and her sister.
Pompilia. went to the Bedford street
moving picture theater--the one which
Mariana said he o~wned-and told him
that the mother wished to see him.
That night he came to the home. and
admitted to h mother and the sister
that he had wronged Rosalinda. and
that he intended to marry her. =
The next day, May IA, 1912, Fran
ceseo Mariana married Rosalinda.
He then took 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 Sapco hung out on the second
and third floors of, 101 Twenty-first
street.-the southwest corner OF Twen-
ty-ffrst street and Armour. The Sec
n floor is the notorious cafe OF Jo-
seph Colosimo. The third floor is
equipped with the lodgings of Colo
| simo's associates and some of his en-
| ployes. Colosimo Is a well known boss
In the vice district. His position among
certain proprietors and proprietresses
of houses of prostitution is similar to
| that once held by Mike the Pike"
Heitier, except that Mike controlled
the outlaw houses. Colosimo controls
a section of the segregated district it.
self, dealing mostly with Italians.
Nino Sacco at that time used n
| third floor rooms, and was Colosimo's
| lieutenant of the vice traffic, being one
Of the half dozen active general man
ayers of the white slave trade in Chi
cage. ., 49,
Sacco also owns or did own the house
of prostitution at LOG Twenty-hrst
street, just across from the rooms OF
| Colosimo, and Sacco's mistress, Jennie
Dorno, was madam of that house. Each
| night after business hours Jennie came
over from 106 Twenty-frst street to
| the, AIhambra hotel, 1880 South State
street, went to Room CT, and turned
over TO Sacco h earnings made from
her girls.
AS soon as Rosalinda stepped off the
train with her husband this Sacco
asked her to become an inmate of his
JOG TWenty-first street house. This was
the first she knew of the reason why
she had been brought to Chicago. She
turned to her husband and u~pbraided
| him. .She answered Sacco that She
| would not go, Sacco told her to leave
the depot alone. And this h did. He
feared that some government official
might see two men with one girl and
arrest them as white s~lavers. She wait
ed outside In the street, and her hus-
\ band came out He took her to the AL
I,hambra ~hotelT~the hotel where Sacco
aud his woman live
No Italian girl an be imported.
placed, or transferred in the district
| without approval of the boss. And. all
rectly,. to the Alhambra, hotel, where
they register with their man, after
which the man reports at once to Colo
| girls who are brought in are taken di-
simo's restaurant. They are. usually
| held about one week, sometimes less,
at the Alhambra hotel before they are
| permitted to enter a house. The theory
is the evasion Of the federal laws and
the creation of an appearance that the
girl has wandered into the city for a
visit, and that later she happens to de-
eide to enter a house of prostitution. II
illustrates the cleverness with which
these organizations operate, as the So
tourn at the Alhambra hotel can be
| pleaded as evidence of the absence of
any intent at the time the girl was
transported into the state.
So Mariana took Rosalinda to Room
So of the Alhambra hotel On that night
of May "A. ,Sacco came to them in their
room Ind told Mariana to be sure and
see that the girl went to log on the fol-
lowing day, as Saturday was q good