Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-05-22
The Story Of Rosal;nda
sY ARTHUR GLEASON.
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Last summer Rosalinda was sweet
and modest girl. one OF New York
City's italian community. Her pretty
face and gentle demeanor made her
friends among the wage-earning peo-
pie Of her neighborhood. She lived in
fiat at West Sixty street,
New York City. with her mother. her
younger sister. and her two brothers
She was 20 years old.
She had girl friend with whom she
walked and saw the movies" and ate
Ice cream Florence 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. favorite walking places
was Bedford street that thoroughfare
+ of Italian pleasures.
One May day, as they were out for
an afternoon of fun handsome young
italian stepped up and said: ANY
thing doing, girls?"
Tho Initial Step.
Rosalinda resented his familiarity
and threatened to complain to the pos
lice. The young man apologized and
said he meant no harm. He had a
charm of manner and continued TO talk
along. He told Rosalinda he owned
the nearby moving picture show. at SO
Bedford street. and that he 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
Rcsalinda refused. and told him If 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
ences friends. and through him ar
ranged 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
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 We're his rooms at Sc Charles
street
When the quartet reached the adj
dress Cunito and Florence remained
downstairs. Mariana took Rosalinda
one flight up into four-room apart
n1ent. 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 revolt
yer and placed it at her forehead
She screamed. No one came.
Rosalinda went home and told her
mother. Next day she and her sister,
Pompilia. went to the Bedford street
moving picture theater-the one which
Mariana said he owned-and told him
that the mother wished to see him.
That night he came to the home, and
admitted to the mother and the sister
that he had Wronged Rosalinda and
that he intended to marry her
The next day. May IA. 1912, Fran
cesco. Mariana married Rosalinda
He then took her aboard the train
and told her they We're 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.
Nfno Sacco hung out on the second
and third floors of 101 Twenty first
street.-the southwest corner of Twen-
ty-firSt street and Armour The sec-
ond floor is the notorious cafe of Jo-
seph Colosimo. The third floor is
equipped with the lodgings of Colo
s'AAAAo - eAooOSlstSCS -SOIuGi Ol MS en-
ployes. Colosimo is a we'll 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
Heltler, except that Mike controlled
section of the segregated district it
self, dealing mostly with Italians.
Nino Saceo ats that time used the
third floor rooms, and was Colosimos
lieutenant of the vice traffic, being one
of the half dozen active general man
layers of the white slave trade in Chi,
cago.
Sacco also owns or did own the house
of prostitution at 106 Twenty first
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-ffrst street to
the Alhambra hotel. 1880 South state
street, went to Room 81. and turned
over to Sacco the 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
log 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 upbraided
him. She answered Sacco that she
would not go. Sacco told her to leave
the depot alone. And this She did. He
feared that some government official
might see two men with one girl and
arrest them as white slavers. She wait
ed outside in the street, and her hus-
band came out. He took her to the AL
hambra hotel--the hotel where Sacco
and his woman live.
No Italian girl can be imported.
placed or transferred in the district
without approval of the boss And all
rectly to the Alhambra hotel,i 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 s house of prostitution It
illustrates the cleverness with which
these organizations operate, as the so
3onrn at the Alhambra hotel can be
pleaded as evidence Of the absence of